even though the carpets have regularly been steam cleaned twice a year over these past 8 yrs? (they even use some kind of product on the carpets regularly, to 'sanitize' them - thing it's something with peroxide in it but I could be wrong). I suspect that all of the glowing I see is from that?. When I'd notice this, of course I'd wash his tail.but I suspect, unfortunately, that the pee from his tail would obviously make contact with the carpet many, many times over the past 8 years I've owned this house. But most of time I wasn't there when he peed, of course.so often his tail was wet with pee on the end. If he was down in his litterbox and I was around, I could easily just lift up his tail while he'd pee and he didn't mind.this would keep it from getting wet. This is something we dealt with for all of his 16 yrs. and was notorious for getting in the way when he'd use the litterbox (pee and poop). My poor dear Angel kitty Taco was a manx.he had a 3 inch stub tail.only it was a tail that hung DOWN. I guess I am just going to not worry about this anymore because I'll drive myself batty (battier?) I did see some very mild glowing spots on the round shag rug in my kitchen nook but I know those spots were places the cats previously horked up furballs on (I remember vividly because I can remember trying to figure out how the heck to clean furball - puke out of long shag LOL). I washed it only in hot water, soap, oxyclean. Interestingly enough, the original mat that Bitsy peed on (a long shag-type washable rubber backed bath mat) I washed that within seconds of her peeing on it.I let it soak in the washer for a good hour.when I waved the light over it, nothing glowed except the entire mat because it's white LOL. If this really was cat urine, my house would stink to high heaven and I'd constantly see cats peeing in these areas. My house was new when I bought it so it's not like it's fluids from the previous owners. I've never even cleaned up a horked-up furball in there because the cats don't spend any time in there. This isn't a room that's ever been steamcleaned because nobody uses it, it's just for the odd guest. There's even some on the carpet in my spare bedroom, a couple of the areas really glow majorly, with really distinct edges. The only room that has pretty much none is my bedroom which is funny because that's a room upstairs that all 5 of my cats have always spent a LOT of time in. Well I can't even begin to explain why I have so many spots all over the carpets of my home. I seemed to notice glowing on surfaces that I've used a cleaner on because you can see the streak marks from the rag, glowing.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, I finally figured out that a lot of the tiny flecks ARE just lint LOL There's small flecks of glowing way up at the top of door jambs that's not a place any cat or spray could ever reach (not that any of my cats have ever sprayed). So basically this light is useless to me because if Bitsy was marking more than the 2 times she did, I'd have no idea which spot. I took the light and used it all over and I found glowing areas where no cat could even go.like on the lid of my washing machine for god's sake (stackable washer/dryer in closet).even random glowing splashes 5 feet up the wall where no cat could ever reach. sometimes the cleaner guy uses a spray stuff on the cat furball/hork areas.maybe this stuff leaves a residue and glows?
I faithfully get my carpets steam cleaned every 6-8 months just to keep my very light carpets looking fresh and not worn down in the traffic areas. When I shone the light over this area - nothing glowed at all. Is it possible that a black light can pick up OTHER THINGS? Like areas I've previously cleaned up cat throw-up from furballs? (I usually use Spot Shot on these areas).įunny thing, I "thought" I could smell urine on an expensive non-washable shag rug in my living room, last night. Dozens and dozens and dozens of small areas illuminated, hundreds maybe! There is no way in the world that these are cat urine spots because if they were, my house would smell like the Cincinnati zoo and my non-animal loving family would have taken great pleasure in telling me a long time ago that my house stunk if anything, they've alwasy remarked how nice it smelled (mostly because I smoke but you wouldn't know it). So I bought a black light tonight, called "Stink-Finder." I nearly had a small coronary after I turned off all the lights in my downstairs and proceed to walk around the living room carpet.
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