Re: Re: Getting rid of urine odor and squirrel

[Guest guest]

Oh goodness!! I would had moved outside if he tried to

bite me! I must try the country music...heck, that

might be enough to make me move out anyways!! The bad

thing, that attic door is in my daughters room and I

will need to run an extention cord! I will plug in a

radio and lights..someone said use ultraviolet

lights....are those the kind used for plants??

--- Z Cat <zcat1956@...> wrote:

> I had an invading squirrel once when I was in

> college and lived in an attic. The darn thing was

> nesting in the walls. We fought a while, I chased it

> with a stick, it lunged at me and tried to bite...,

> traps failed or were chewed up. Nothing worked,

> ..until.. I left my old clock radio in the crawl

> space facing down the eave tunnel where it went up

> into the walls. That squirrel hated country music.

> Mostly though I think it didn't like any radio

> station played really loud. Whenever I left, I

> turned it UP. When I came home, I turned it back

> down to my quiet comfort level. After a just a few

> days the critter found a more peaceful tree to nest

> in. It worked. I left a fan blowing all the time to

> help get rid of the smell where I could not rinse

> with ammonia and hot water. After a few weeks, it

> was tolerable again and I forgot about it. Poverty

> makes you creative :-)

> Z

>

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>

[Guest guest]

OK, I feel like a dumb dumb. I was thinking the light

had something to do with killing the germs the critter

left. I once heard some sort of light was once used in

doctors offices to kill germs when patients passed

through the doorway. Now I get it! So I won't have to

rip up every inch of insulation and scrub every inch

of the attic to get squirrel urine out, I use the

light to find it! I had no idea black lights did

this!! There are a few " hippy " stores around, I bet

they have black lights. Will the ultra violent detect

these too??

--- barb1283 <barb1283@...> wrote:

> Well, I said blacklight and Jeff said ultraviolet.

> I don't know the

> difference if there is one. It could be that black

> light is a type

> of ultraviolet light.

> This is what encyclopedia says about black light:

> >>

> Black light (also Wood's light) is the common name

> for a lamp

> emitting electromagnetic radiation that is almost

> exclusively in the

> soft near ultraviolet range, and very little visible

> light. In the

> United Kingdom this type of lighting is more

> commonly referred to as

> simply " UV light " .

>

> <snip>

> Read about it's uses:

>

> " In forensic investigations, black lights are used

> to reveal the

> presence of trace evidence, such as blood, urine,

> semen and saliva,

> by causing visible fluorescence in these substances.

> The use of this

> technique by exposé style television news magazines

> for reporting on

> the various unsanitary and mysterious stains found

> in hotel rooms

> has become such an oft-repeated stunt that it has

> been lampooned on

> comedy shows such as Family Guy and The Office

> (US). "

>

> Here are some pictures of black lights. I have

> tubular type and I

> recommend that if you have pets as it identifies any

> stain made by

> pet vomit or urine accidents and also other biologic

> stains that may

> cause odor. If you don't have pet, you could get by

> with compact

> type but it will only illuminate a very small area

> so may take a

> long time to investigate whole attic with it. I got

> my tubular one

> at a pet store but lately I only see the small

> compact ones which I

> tried using but gave up and then glad to find my

> lost tubular one.

>

>

http://www.blacklite.com/Products/Tubular_Type_Ultraviolet_Lamps.htm

>

>

>

> >

> > Oh goodness!! I would had moved outside if he

> tried to

> > bite me! I must try the country music...heck, that

> > might be enough to make me move out anyways!! The

> bad

> > thing, that attic door is in my daughters room and

> I

> > will need to run an extention cord! I will plug

> in a

> > radio and lights..someone said use ultraviolet

> > lights....are those the kind used for plants??

> >

> >

>

>

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