Using a Blacklight To Find Cat & Dog Urine Odor Spots
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Mark each spot with a coin, a small piece of paper, or some other type of marker. Then, you can collect your cleaning supplies and clean up each spot. NOTE: These same principles and the U.V. Urine Detector can be used for puppy/dog urine stains too!
Cat urine odor control is tough under the best of circumstances. Half the time, you don’t know where to find it, but your sniffer is saying, “It’s around here somewhere…”
There’s an easier way to detect cat urine stains, other than with your nose.
It’s the U.V. blacklight. Yes, that purple light that is associated with growing certain herbs that makes you forget about your cares…the blacklight. Cat urine is composed of really interesting ingredients, and a black light is the perfect tool to help you with cat urine odor control! Cat urine odor control is more difficult because kitty can often get into the darndest places, do her business, and waltz away. Sometimes it can take you days to find the source.
You see, cat urine glows brightly under a blacklight.
A black light detects cat urine spots anywhere in your home that cannot easily be seen by your eyes alone, so it finds the spots that you can’t see, but can smell!
They’re easy to use – just flick one on, and look for bright fluorescent spots on your floor, walls, baseboards, or furniture.
This black light is perfect for cat urine odor control, because it’s small, and stores easily away when not in use – just put it in a drawer for the next time.
Here’s how a black light urine detector worked for my neighbor…
The guy down the street borrowed my blacklight to pinpoint the source of his cat urine odor. He’d been searching for a week. He knew the general area, but he couldn’t see a stain or spot.
In five minutes he found the spot with the blacklight detector. Turns out kitty was backing up to a crack in the drywall, and was letting loose! He had to replace the wall section.
If he hadn’t borrowed the blacklight, who knows if he would have ever found the source…
You can smell it…you know it’s there somewhere, but WHERE? I used to get down on my hands and knees, crawling around, feeling and looking for the telltale spots. If it was still wet, no problem, I see you. Or I’d put my hand into it.
On the other hand…let that stuff dry, and you swear you’re imagining the smell, because you’ve had to deal with it for so long! You feel here, you feel there…sometimes you get really lucky, and spot the irregular pattern on your floor.
Cat urine odor control is easy if you use the black light and find urine spots quickly. You’ll decrease the damage to your floors, carpeting, bedding, and furniture.
Eliminate professional carpet and rug cleaning costs because you found the spot in time to clean with an enzyme cleaner. We recommend HealthyPetNet’s BioDeodorizer, which actually digests the sources of household and pet odors. BioDeodorizer does NOT mask odors…it contains microbes which eliminate odors!
We also recommend the Simple Solution Spotter - U.V. Urine Detector and see how you can start cat urine odor control in your home now. These same principles and the U.V. Urine Detector can be used for puppy/dog urine stains too!
Cat urine odor control tips:
You’ll have no problem finding cat urine if it’s at night – click the black light on, turn the room lights off, and happy hunting!!! If you’re an insomniac, this can keep you occupied. The cat urine will show up as a bright fluorescent greenish color. Soon, you’ll be cleaning cat urine in spots you would otherwise have missed! During the day…draw the curtains, the blinds, pray for a dark, nasty thundercloud, or wait until it gets dark! You can still see the stains, faintly, but you’re going to have to get down real close to see it. This is an essential tool for cat urine odor control.
If your home has been bombarded by kitty deposits for awhile, here’s a nifty little procedure to find all the spots:
Arm yourself with your blacklight. Have your favorite odor eliminator for cleaning cat urine waiting nearby, with towels and rags. Enter the darkened room, and turn the blacklight on. Walk through the entire room, concentrating on the lower half of the walls, baseboards and corners. However, do sweep across the width and length of the room, because I have found spots smack dab in the middle. Inspect furniture - the legs, the lower portions, and sides. Check out the bottom row of bookcases, and the books. And so on…
If you find multiple spots, there are a number of ways you can mark them. One, clean as you go. Find a spot, clean it…find a spot, clean it. Or, you could take any really small object - coins, marbles, golf ball markers - and put them on the spot. Once you’ve thoroughly canvassed the room, haul in your cleaning supplies, and start cleaning cat urine. Repeat for each room you know (or suspect) kitty has blessed.
Want to know a foolproof way to find those spots?
Got another cat? Or a dog? Enlist their help for cat urine control! Just pay attention to her, as she wanders around the house. When she stops and really investigates a spot, get out your blacklight. Chances are you’ve hit the jackpot. Give kitty/doggy a treat for detecting the spot! You didn’t know cat urine odor control and cleaning could be fun, did you?
This article has been graciously submitted by Nancy E. Wigal, Cat Urine Odor Advisor. Nancy has successfully eliminated cat urine odor from her home, and kept the kitty that caused it. The Cat Urine Odor Advisor helps you save money and stop the damage in your household by offering solutions that work together to eliminate cat urine odor from your home. Visit Nancy’s website here to help you save money and stop the damage in your household by offering solutions that work together to eliminate cat urine odor from your home. Subscribe to the CAT URINE ODOR SOLUTIONS newsletter on Nancy’s website, and she’ll send you her free report “Four Important Litter Box Basics For Your New Kitten.” You can also subscribe to Nancy’s RSS Channel without e-mail here.
Sorry I had such hope for the blacklight ,the mini one I bought,4 watts is useless,i could only detect little pieces of white paper on my rug,i even tried it in the bathroom.
Comment by Shelby | July 28, 2008
Blacklight is useless. I have no luck finding the cat pee I can smell right now… so I tried the light on the litterbox, and the pee-clumps don’t even glow.
Big scam.
Comment by Chris | August 4, 2008
I bought a black light that clearly stated it would detect urine. I paid $24.95 Cdn. It simply does not work. My poodle is paper trained. It would not show anything even on a newspaper soaked with urine! Clumps of litter in the cat litter pan did not show up. It would however, show up a piece of white yarn on the floor for petes sake. It is totally useless and is going back where I bought it.
Comment by Sue Harrison | August 8, 2008
I am using a black light and IT WORKS GREAT!
The urine spots show up disgustingly well.
The black light is an older one, about 22″ long, and of unknown wattage. Maybe the newer ones don’t work as well.
Comment by Melody | August 12, 2008
it works on dried urine. I’ve used the lights many time and suggest them to friends as well. turn off all lights and work all areas of the floor sometimes it don’t show up super bright other times it looks like I’ve spilled uv tattoo ink on the carpet in my friends houses… keep the light lose the cat. also detects blood cemen and uv tattoo ink
Comment by madwire | August 12, 2008
I just bought a black light at the hardware store and it worked great! We didn’t even have to wait until it was dark outside. We knew our cat had gone somewhere, but we weren’t sure of the exact spot. It turned out to be several places!
Comment by Karen | August 16, 2008
I bought a regular 60watt black light bulb, put it in a construction lamp, and walked around the room with it. It showed absolutely nothing, other than making white items look blue.
Are you all talking about regular black light bulbs or is there a special black light to detect urine?
Thanks!
Comment by Mary Lynn | August 25, 2008
I bought a black light at lowes for $20 today. It doesn’t work on my new brown carpet (textured/very short shag) but did work when I tested it in the laundry room next to the cat box on berber carpet - bright yellow glowing spots were tracked all around!! The clumps didn’t glow but there was bright yellow, and of course the random white lint on the floor everywhere.
So maybe it only works on certain surfaces?
I invested a lot of $ in the feliway plug-ins and spray - I hope they work! I love my kitty but can’t take the smell on my new carpet!
Comment by mindy | September 21, 2008
Borrowed a great large blacklight from a friend… glad I didn’t spend money on one cause it didn’t detect any pee - but it did show me everything else!! Anywhere the carpet was treated for any spills - I saw through the blacklight. Every piece of lint, fiber hairs, dust… it was enough to make me go nuts.
I also invested in feliway - and I also pulled up the portions of the carpet where my cat chose to mark… carpet is less than 4 years old. Starting to consider saying bye to my “first baby.” Terrible.
Comment by andy | October 21, 2008
So Andy, you’re saying you are getting rid of your animal because of a four year old carpet? Wow. The blacklight (which you didn’t spend any money on) didn’t work so you’re just going to dispose of your pet? Please don’t call it your “baby” if that is the case, because it’s clear that your ties don’t run that deep.
Comment by kelly | January 6, 2009
I purchased a regular blacklight at Wal mart and it works great. You do need the room dark. It does not work as well with just the curtains closed. Wait until night and hold it within 6 inches of the carpet. I use PacZyme and and syringe and inject it full strength through the carpet into the pad as well as on top. This method has worked well for me. The only problem is that the blacklight also lights up some non-pet spots - not sure what those are, perhaps something spilled over the years?? However, if you smell each spot that lights up, it is easy to tell which is which.
Comment by Janice | February 18, 2009
I bought a StinkFinder (UV light) at Petsmart and it works great! Darn cat marked half the house!
Comment by Billy Bob | March 23, 2009
Thanks so much!! I just bought a StinkFinder at Petsmart because of your posting. It worked!! It’s daytime, also. I tried the black light bulb before, with no luck. I had to get close to the carpet, but the outline was clear. Who knew I’d be so happy about finding pee.
Comment by Michele | April 17, 2009
I DONT KNOW WHATS IN THE PISS OF THIER CATS BUT THE BLACKLIGHT DOES NOT SHOW ANY STAINS EVEN THE ONE THE CAT DID IN FRONT OF ME, NOTHING!! I EVEN USED AN UV LIGHT ,NOTHING MAYBE I NEED TO GIVE MY CAT A PILL TO SHOW UP IN THIER URINE SO I CAN SEE IT THE BLACKLIGHT DOES NOT WORK
Comment by RICH | June 26, 2009
I have used Black light and it works well with one of my cats but not at all with another. Both cats get same food but live in different parts of house. I am looking for pill to help me with other cat.
Comment by David D | July 10, 2009
You have to make sure you get a good UV light. I tried a couple until I found the Stink FInder at Petsmart and it detects everything! Even places I didn’t suspect - found old dog urine spots. It has to be dark, the conditions the author wrote about. I bought Feliway several times and it did nothing for my four cats. I bought the plug in and spray - big waste of money for me. So now I can find the spots, but I am SICK of finding them so often. I took the cats to the Vet,twice because they suspected UTI - not. I feed them Science diet indoor cat food, clean the litter everyday, have more than enough litter boxes…what else can I do? I don’t want to get rid of any of them. I know meds will help some cats, but of my four, which one is it….so sneaky, never gets caught.
Comment by Nanny | July 25, 2009
I tried a blacklight bulb from Home Depot and it didn’t work. Then I went and spent 20 bucks on Stink Finder and it doesn’t work either. My carpet is brown and shaggy. However, on my sister’s carpet which is beige and just a normal texture plenty of cat throw up stains glowed neon green. I think it just depends on the color/texture of your carpets which sucks because I smell cat urine and am desperately trying to locate it!!!! Definitely don’t waste money on black lights if your carpet is anything like mine. You would be better off using your nose and getting on your hands and knees to find it!
Comment by virginia | August 8, 2009
i pulled out an old blacklight from the 70’s out of our basement, and found a ton of spots on my beige carpet, but obviously not all were cat stains, I did a little more online research and found that urine stains don’t glow as brightly as other types of stains, and cleaner residue fron any cleaning any other type of stain will show up very clearly. Urine stains are a dull yellow color w/ the black light and I had to use it in a pitch dark room in the middle of the night, w/o even a nightlight on. I tested in first in the bathroom to see if the bulb even worked and was amazed to see all the cleaning product stains splashes all all over the painted walls, it also showed dust very brightly. So use your nose, after you find a spot that looks suspect. Now I just have to try some of the cleaners I’ve researched to see which one works the best. I have 5 cats, but only one 15 year old new rescue has decided he wont use the 9 litter boxes I have in my 3 story house and has to pee in one corner and poop in another. He must have come from a single cat household and doesn’t want to share a box…needless to say, puppy pads are my new best friend…
Comment by jazzy | August 22, 2009
It only shows up if it’s not been treated or cleaned. Once you’ve tried to clean an area, even if it still smells it won’t show up with the black light. I have a basic one I bought at a discount store.. it’s about 14″ long. (basic meaning it’s for kids posters etc.) It takes a little bit for your eyes to become accustomed to it but it will show up the urine as greenish. It took me a few tries to see it but it was definitely there. Maybe i was too distracted by the lint etc that shows up as white. The cat’s 17 years old and never had an issue til I brought in a piece of furniture from a friend who had cats. Then he started going near it. I tried Zep and Natures Miracle but neither worked as advertised.
Comment by llazyme | October 26, 2009
The black light is tricky. It only works on certain surfaces, many cotton fabrics won’t glow even if urine covered, whiter fabrics glow weather peed on or not. Litter won’t glow, even if peed on, neither will pee pads I think. Some materials absorb the light and that seems to override any phosphorescent substance on them. Pet urine does glow more greenish, particularly older spots. It helps a lot to know what area you should be looking in. Also, urine removal products remove the odor, but not the component that phosphoresces, so the stain will still glow after treatment. Anti-IckyPoo & Fizzion both work well. Anti-Ickypoo is enzymes & bacteria. Fizzion is CO2 & citric acid.
Comment by Cathy P. | November 5, 2009
I was looking for a blacklight flash light and could not find one at the pet stores in Fort Worth, TX. I then tried Ace hardware and they sold me a 75 wat bulb with an aluminum reflector. This did not work. I then decided to try Dicks Sporting good store and found a 9 led ultra violet blacklight flahlight for $9.99 took it home and it works like a champ. I am now cleaning up several mistakes thanks to this little flashlight. Not only did it show the carpet but also walls and doors he had marked.
Comment by Mike | November 21, 2009
Just came from HD and they, too, sold me a 75 watt “black light” bulb and reflector. Nothing spotted, but I can smell it. I’m sure the bulb isn’t working. Going to try Dick’s LED flashlight and will post.
Comment by Stu | January 8, 2010
Went to Dick’s, bought the LED Blacklight flashlight…about $10 in the camping section with all the other flashlights. Works GREAT!!! Found 5 different spots where the cats had either vomited or peed…showed up very well….looked at the same spots with the Home Depot 75 watt black light bulb….NOTHING! I can NOT recommend the “incandescent” black light bulb/reflector. I can HIGHLY recommend the LED blacklight.
Comment by Stu | January 8, 2010
I have 13 cats and one, or maybe more of them, are spraying in our upstairs rooms. I use an old blacklight I had from college and it works great at finding the spots. It does have to be dark outside. I am also a vet tech and had a few suggestions for those who have multiple cats and want to find out who’s doing it. If you ask your vet they can give you Florescene strips (normally used to detect cuts on the cornea of the eye) and they can be cut up and put in a capsule and fed to one cat at a time and then it’s urine will DEFFINITLY show up as a weird orange color. Only do one at a time and give a few days of withdrawl time before moving onto the next cat. Also, Feliway diffusers in the rooms your cats spend time in can make a huge difference.
Comment by kim | January 25, 2010