My dear darling cat has a fetish with glasses sitting about, particularly if they have a liquid in them. Well as my luck might have it, about a week ago he knocked my remaining glass of milk over and it spilled onto my carpeting. I cleaned it up quickly with many paper towels but neglected to pull my couch forward to realize that it had spread along the base board. A few days later I discovered a less than pleasant aroma and I've nailed it to souring milk in the fiber and presumably padding of my carpet. I've tried doosing it with water (a second glass knocked over by the resident feline a few days later and scrubbing it with pet odor Resolve. But it hasn't fully disipated yet. I'm trying to avoid having the carpet cleaned professionally, especially before the holidays... any suggestions?

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thanks Sharni, I'm a bit dense sometimes, I never thought to let my fingertips walk the web for a solution. I'm gonna give some of these a try first.

I feel your pain maddy! My cat has the same obsession with glasses/cups, other than his own in it's proper place. This OCD actually comes in handy when they are older. I couldn't get my cat to drink enough water to help with constipation problems till I started placing cups of water in out-of-the-way places other than next to his food bowl.

I wish you well in your current dilemma! Looks like Sharni found some pretty decent suggestions!

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Try vigourously scrubbing the spot with cat fur.

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Hmmm...if it's odor as an issue, I recommend spraying it liberally with Febreze after you've washed it....cyclodextrins will help with the odor.

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Great idea WI! Got a cat I can borrow to scrub with?

Thanks osuche, so coming from the chemical engineer... the Febreze stuff REALLY works to remove odors?

Well thanks for the ringing endorsement... I've never tried it becuase I figured it was like any other odor cover-upper. Now, I feel confident it's worth the price on the shelf.

Well...the product has a fragrance (although not a heavy one), but the active is cyclodextrin, which is a molecule that tends to "encapsulate" oily long-chain molecules...such as the ones that cause odor. It "captures" the molecule in its core and removes the fragrance from the fabric....

And, yes...it works. Technical jargon or no.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

Why don't you use the pain in the ass cat that knocked it over to begin with? I'm not giving you mine! Then my pussy will smell like spoiled milk and I'll have to spray it with Febreze or nobody will wanna play with it!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

If you do to the pet store and get an odor eater liquid that has enzyme action, made for pet accidents, it just may work.

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