posted 02-23-2004 12:43 PM         

This a classic question. The best idea for this problem is protection before it happens. Use a mattress pad and/or a vinyl sheet between the futon mattress and the fitted/bottom sheet. This should help solve any future problems with kids, dogs, and the occaisional coffee or iced tea stain.

You could clean the mattress with some rug cleaner and get a plain futon cover and try that. If you are in a dry climate and can hang the mattress outside in the sun, try using some warm water with laundry deteregnt in it and a scrub brush to clean the spots, or the whole mattress. If you don't get it too wet it will dry out nicely in a dayor so of warm sunlight.

If you can stand the aroma use some kind of sweet smelling masking solution (Simple Solution works well) to replace the doggy odor.

Also, this question is quite common and has been answered many times in past posts.

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I hope this helps.