The first thing you should know is that the amount of pet contamination that you think you have is probably much less that what you actually have. Watching a pet urinate or finding an area that smells, are not the best methods of knowing the full extent of the situation. Thinking that an animal is somehow above "doing something like that" is a form of denial. You may have inherited a problem from a previous tenant. Younger animals that are untrained are the source of many "pet accidents" but older "trained" or sick animals sometimes behave in ways that they can't control and try to hide. Sometimes animals left at home, while you go on vacation, depart from their normal routine seemingly distraught for being left behind and cared for by a stranger.
Second, the cat pee spot that you are able to see on your carpet is not all there is. Surface spots are usually smaller that the contamination that has seeped into the carpet, migrated along the carpet back and soaked into the pad. Here's the rub. Applying your favorite "miracle in a bottle" in a glug-glug fashion on the surface will undoubtedly spread the contamination further into the pad. Since you are unable to absorb all of the liquid back out, you are actually making matters worse. If you merely apply the product with a towel to the surface you will leave behind the larger source of contamination.
Third, is that urine never completely dries but merely evaporates to a salt deposit. When spring and fall arrive with more rain in the weather those salts attract moisture from the atmosphere and the urine odor cycle begins all over again. The odor that you thought went away is somehow back! But now you are not sure where that spot was.
Complicating this, is that fact that, olfaction, the sense of smell, is the one sense that is most easily tricked. Just being in a room with habitual odors reduces our ability to detect or locate a specific source. Our olfactory sense also has a strong psychological bond. Our brain has the capacity to detect, receive, analyze, and distinguish discrete odors and catalog them for recall. So, it is possible to walk into a kitchen you have been absent from for decades and smell your grandmother's pie. In the same way, you can walk into a decontaminated room and "think" you still smell an off odor where none may physically exist.
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