[Dona]

Hey girls!!

Thank you so much for all the great, helpful replies, I truly apprecaite them!

I see that in my haste to post, I made a mistake and said I didn't have a steam cleaner, but we do have a carpet cleaner, so I typo'ed there!

OK to start.....I was able to zip the covers off...but since I don't know how long after I left that she peed on the sofa, it was hard to tell how saturated the coushions were inside the covers. The covers I washed three times and they smell wonderful! The very thick padded coushions inside the cover, they are another story. I got real close to smell and I can certainly smell urine in them, even just walking near them I smell it. I left them outside for three whole days, hoping they might air out and the smell go away, but no such luck. So, I went and bought PetZyme at Petsmart and saturated them and let it dry. The smell is considerably less and now when I just walk by or near the cushions I don't smell it, but if I lean down into them I still do. So, now I suppose I'll take them outside to the driveway and saturate them with hose water and soap and let them air dry, then maybe do the PetZyme stuff again and see how it goes.

I do have a steam cleaner, but for some reason, the wand part stopped sucking up the solution, so I can't use that. It still works wonders for our carpet, but the stair and sofa cleaning wand is pretty useless without suction.

As for my sweet girl Dane...well, she's actually gotten these since she was a puppy, but usually just about once a year, usually about October, so she's early. She gets Clavamox and it clears up just fine. Sadly, when she has these infections, there is blood in her urine as well as struvite crystals. Our vet told us that if she gets them more than 2-3 times a year, we need to look at surgery...but so far it's only been once a year, and around the same time...so, we get her on meds quickly and they go right away!!

Thank you all so much, I truly appreciate your support and help and good thoughts for my baby girl! She's just never, ever peed anywhere but in her crate when she has one of these infections, so it was a real shock to find it on the sofa! And, the urine associated with these is pretty awful powerful smelling, so it was real hard to get this mess cleaned up!

June - Thanks for the heads up on that product. I did an Internet search and found so many different answers to my question on which cleaner, but did find a lot who swore by PetZyme, so that was near and I ran to get it. I did indeed take the odor out of the part of the couch that is not removable or washer friendly, so that was nice. But, I plan to follow up with the ZeroOdor product!

Hugs!