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How do I get rid of a strong urine smell that occurs every morning in
the garden in front of my house? (I don't know what creature --cat,
dog, rat, possum or ??? -- is leaving the urine).

They are marking territory on an established travel route. Animals
are creatures of habit and often follow the same route every night if
nothing interrupts them, marking at the same spots. So, you need to
persuade that animal to take a different route.

You can reduce or prevent territory-marking behaviour by playing the
role of a dominant animal, marking the territory yourself with your own
urine each evening (before the animal visits). Of course you may still
smell pee there but you only need do it for a few days until the animal
establishes a new nocturnal route.

Janet

An unneutered cat will spray over human pee more often than not; it's not
urine they're spraying but a tarry musk that smells so bad because cats
can't smell terribly well and it needs to be pretty rank for them to find
the spot to mark again. They are not much bothered by familiar scents of
people or dogs.

Hunting supply shops sell coyote urine which can be used to mark territory
in a way that makes cats worry a bit about predators. I can't vouch that
it works on cats but some folks swear by it.

-paghat the ratgirl
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