Cat Urine

Many people try unsuccessfully to remove cat urine stains and odors from practically everything in their house. Cement floors, hardwood floors, leather couches, mattresses, clothes and anything else you can think of.

They typically use a homemade cat urine remover that someone told them about or they saw on the Internet and they are confused as to why it didn't work.

It's simple really, homemade cat urine removers will not neutralize the uric acid crystals and while the stain might be gone and the odor temporarily as well the odor will come back once the crystals get "reactivated" and the viscous cycle continues. Try something else, fail and often times give up. Frustrating isn't it?

Others will try the various commercial cat urine removers and while most will have success there will be some that will say that even these don't work. The problem here is that they most likely did not follow the instruction completely. Hint: There is a reason they provide detailed instructions on the product.

The best commercial cat urine cleaners will have special enzymes in them that literally eat up the uric acid crystals and in my opinion this is the only way to completely remove cat urine stains and odors.

Now there's just one little problem that most people overlook...

They don't know where to clean.

What do I mean by that? Well, many people don't realize that cat urine smell is very powerful to a cat and they will sniff out where it has urinated previously and continue to use that spot over and over again.

This is why you NEVER want to use ammonia based products to clean cat urine because the smell of ammonia is similar to urine and using ammonia is like sending an invitation to your cat to pee here. So when you hear people complain that the cat urine cleaner didn't work the odds are that even if they did follow the directions exactly they most likely missed a spot or two.

The solution is to use a black light as the ultraviolet light will make the cat urine fluoresce and "glow in the dark" so you can easily see where you need to clean. Without the black light you are just guessing and stand a very good chance of missing some of those pesky uric acid crystals.

A black light is an indispensable weapon in your war against cat urine and you need to get one if you want to rid yourself of completely remove cat urine smells in your home. They don't cost that much and some cat urine cleaners will include one with their product.