Hee, hee! I've even gone to the extent of removing all of the carpet in the house and replacing with ceramic tile/laminate wood flooring (I highly recommend the Armstrong's edition made exclusively for Lowe's...withstands spills and cat claws peeling out at 100 miles and hour)...and the rugs are the cheap berber/industrial rugs that you can pick up at Walmart for $30 (they don't seem to be as comfortable to pee on and withstand claw sharpening)...two mottos at our house: "if it can't be ruined, we don't buy it" and "we can't have anything nice!" :)
**************************************************** "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world; You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed..." --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys." --Chief Dan George
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You BOUGHT a $450 area
rug?!!!??? (Oo)
You must not be as much of a crazy cat lady as
some of the rest of us. We don't even have cheap $6 bath mats on the floor. I
have one, but I keep it thrown up over the shower bar, and only use it during
showers, as soon as I am dry, I pick it up and throw it back up out of "cat pee
reach". I forgot to put it up yesterday, and now I have to wash it today, it's
in the "cat pee" hamper now.
I wouldn't suggest replacing the rug.... it will
just be ruined again. Rugs are a real waste of money if you have
cats.
I have a "rug" at the door entrance. It's
a 2 foot long cut section of heavy-duty rubber backed high traffic
carpet runner (the industrial stuff you see at businesses in the aisles). If
they pee on it, the pee stays on it, and doesn't soak through to the carpet
under it. I take it to the car wash down the road, pour a gallon of undiluted
vinegar on it, let it soak for 5 minutes, and then spray it with the high
pressure car soap (it's hot), then rinse it with the high pressure rinse. I got
it at a reduced price at the hardware store, because it was a remnant, cost
me $12 ($6 a foot).
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yeah, I used quite a bit, they seem to hit two corners only, regretfully they ruined a $450 area rug by the front door, that will now need to be replaced ;-(( |
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