stubborn urine stench
so this is a bizarre and disgusting question..... does anyone have any issues with the smell of horse piss invading (and refusing to leave) your clothes/shoes/etc?
short back story: i'm an equine vet tech, and for a few months now i've been working almost daily on a mare who suffered a severe dystocia and consequently had really weird (medical anomaly weird!) urethra damage. for the first few weeks, she would just spray pee everywhere all the time. the fact that i was often standing behind her - scrubbing, medicating, or otherwise examining the problem area - did not deter her poor bladder. her piss had a horrible HORRIBLE nasty stench to it, i couldn't avoid contact with it, and it permanently permeated my shoes and work clothes.
(GROSS, RIGHT?)
the problem is, over the weeks i've washed and washed and washed and rewashed my shoes and clothes (separately) and the smell will not leave. it doesn't help that i still have to wade through and muck her soiled stall twice a day, but even after a fresh washing my stuff still smells awful.
it's gotten to the point where my life outside of work is suffering because i can't even stop at the grocery store on my way home from work because it's just godawful embarrassing.
anyone else ever had trouble removing ammonia/urine smell for good?? any tips? secret products or solutions?
perhaps my washing machine just sucks and i need to find a dry cleaner's, but i don't feel like embarrassing myself with my reeking clothes/shoes in public unnecessarily.
even though this is equine urine i'm talking about, if this post happens to be inappropriate for this community let me know.
short back story: i'm an equine vet tech, and for a few months now i've been working almost daily on a mare who suffered a severe dystocia and consequently had really weird (medical anomaly weird!) urethra damage. for the first few weeks, she would just spray pee everywhere all the time. the fact that i was often standing behind her - scrubbing, medicating, or otherwise examining the problem area - did not deter her poor bladder. her piss had a horrible HORRIBLE nasty stench to it, i couldn't avoid contact with it, and it permanently permeated my shoes and work clothes.
(GROSS, RIGHT?)
the problem is, over the weeks i've washed and washed and washed and rewashed my shoes and clothes (separately) and the smell will not leave. it doesn't help that i still have to wade through and muck her soiled stall twice a day, but even after a fresh washing my stuff still smells awful.
it's gotten to the point where my life outside of work is suffering because i can't even stop at the grocery store on my way home from work because it's just godawful embarrassing.
anyone else ever had trouble removing ammonia/urine smell for good?? any tips? secret products or solutions?
perhaps my washing machine just sucks and i need to find a dry cleaner's, but i don't feel like embarrassing myself with my reeking clothes/shoes in public unnecessarily.
even though this is equine urine i'm talking about, if this post happens to be inappropriate for this community let me know.