How to Clean Wooden Furniture With Cat Spray on It

Cats often spray trees outside or furniture inside to mark their territory. Some people mistake cat spray for urine, but spraying is not so much a bad habit of your cat's as an instinct and therefore is a behavior much harder to change than urinating. However, it is simple to clean wooden furniture that has cat spray on it. As a matter of fact, most cat-urine cleaning materials will also remove the cat spray.

Things You'll Need

  • Paper towels
  • 1 quart warm water
  • ½ cup white vinegar
  • Spray bottle
  • Cat-urine odor remover
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Instructions

    • 1

      Mop up the cat-spray puddle from the wooden furniture with paper towels until all of the cat spray has been removed. Note that even after removing the visible cat spray, there will be a musky odor left behind.

    • 2

      Mix one quart of warm water with half a cup of white vinegar in a spray bottle and spray the area of the wooden furniture that the cat spayed with a light coating of the solution.

    • 3

      Mop up the water and vinegar mix with paper towels and then spray the area with a cat-urine odor remover such as Stink Free, Out or Urine-Off.

    • 4

      Mop up the odor remover with paper towels and come back to the furniture about two hours later. If the furniture still has an odor or stain to it, then repeat the application of both the water and vinegar mixture and the odor remover. Repeat until the wooden furniture no longer has a musky odor to it.