Conference misery::feline_v1

    All I can suggest is that you look through the phone book and see if
    there's a leather cleaner in your area.  Hopefully they can suggest
    something.
    
    Good luck,
    
    Carol
    

    Perhaps the local cleaners.
    
    I'm sure you know that cats rarely urinate indescriminately like
    that without a very good reason.  Maybe the cat should return
    to the vets.
    

    Often improper urination is due to feline uretha syndrome (crystalized
    urine).  I have one cat who gets the problem.  Tell youre roomate
    to by some feline CD cat food at the vet, this has the medication
    in it and works for us.  As for getting rid of urine you can mail
    order a product called odormut.  Odormute is a bacteria that you
    mix with water.  It actually eats the urine.  Im not sure about
    leather but it sure works great on carpet.  It claims it works on
    just about anything.  You can get it through Pedigrees Catalog.
    Ill input the address or phone tommorow.  
    
    Please tell youre roomate about FUS and the CD food.
    
    Also foods that will not harm FUS are:
    
    Ninelives chicken flavors
    IAMS cat food
    friskies, beef and liver, and turkey and giblets
    
    THanks,
    
    Elaine

    Science Diet C/D is a prescription diet and contains no medication.
    The reason it helps lies in what it doesn't have.  It has lower
    levels of magnesium, and ash.
    
    C/D is only available on prescription.  The vet has to determine
    the need.  If the cat is showing signs of urinary tract infection 
    and/or blockage, the vet should be notified immediately.
           
    Sorry about your baseball glove, I would try Nature's Miracle on
    it.  Nature's Miracle is also an enzyme (like Odormute mentioned
    in previous note)
    
    Jo

    I agree; bring the cat to the vet. But in the interm, any local
    pet store should have some kind of an enzyme active cleaner that
    you can use on the glove, Nature's Miracle is about the best but
    isn't easy to find in a pet store in the N.E. area (you can get
    it at nashua Pet & Aquarium).
    
    Deb

    Also try a dry cleaning store, they sometimes carry the
    enzyme products.
    

    CD does not require a prescription.  I have walked into an arbitrary
    vet (not mine) and bought a case of CD on the spot.  It is called
    CD prescription diet but any one can buy it.  From the mouth of
    my Vet "CD contains an extra acidifier".  Too much magnesium in
    the food causes the cats urine to become basic in nature this then
    crystalizes and is know as FUS.  CD is low in ash and contains an
    extra acidifier.  No prescription is required to buy the food. The
    word prescription is simply contained in the title.  I have a
    cat with FUS and have donated CD to a shelter buy simply walking
    in off the street and purchasing it.
    
    Here is the pedigrees address for Odormute:
    Pedigrees
    box 110
    Cm-128
    Spencerport N.Y. 14559
    
    You could probably find another product that is the bacteria but
    I found that the pet stores in my area and vets in my area dont
    carry any.
    
    Elaine

    Elaine,
    
    What is commonly meant by prescription diet is that it is
    available only from a veterinarian, versus grocery or feed
    store.    C/D does contain an acidifier.  This is not
    medication.  I think that is the point Joann was trying to
    clarify.
    
    Donna

    Thanks Donna, you were right, that is what I meant.
    
    Jo

    I understand what you mean now.  Although I have medicine that is
    and acidifier that my vet gave me so I always considered and acidifier
    to be medicine all that we missed here is terminology

    Note that CD and an acidifier should not be given to the same cat --
    that's an overdose.