Dried blood on carpet.

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The cats are still kittens really and hunting is a newly acquired skill. I think it must be the season for baby rodents, my cats are currently stalking a vole on the patio.
I am making a poor job of cat care for my neighbour. She likes the flap locked for the night with them in, but the little s*ds rush out at the back as I enter the house at the front.

EmilyHarburn has given the best advice, shysal! Contact your neighbour before tackling that stain, she has probably had bloodstains on the carpet before (unless of course the cats have never brought their trophies home!) so will probably be able to advise.

I always use Woolite washing liquid. It’s gentle on knitwear and so therefore good on wool carpets. Really wet the carpet and then use a clean towel to soak the water up by standing on the towel. I was told by the carpet cleaner man that things like Vanish can bleach the carpets so be careful

her cat her carpet her problem If you use something it may make it worse and then it's your problem

I was always taught that cold water as a first step...it must be cold as any heat will 'cook' the proteins in blood and then it will never come out. A bit of elbow grease and cold water will shift a lot. Then I go in with the Vanish gold foam as per instructions and it usually does the trick.

We have an elderly cat with a tendency to vomit. We leave it to dry, scrape it up, and vacuum, as moving it wet and immeduately using carpet cleaner tends to spread the mark which looks awful until the carpets are professionally cleaned.

Dissolve a handful of salt in water and rub the stains with that on a clean cloth.

If the saline solution doesn't work, sprinkle salt onto the damp patch and try again later.

Can you close the door to the room with the pale carpet?

Presumably the cats will then leave their presents somewhere else and I imagine their owner is used to blood on that particular carpet.

Thank you all for your hints, I had considered the use of salt so that will be my first option followed by some of the others, if the need should arise.

This really is not your problem. Their cats...they must be used to it. It is possible that you could cause damage trying to remove a mark so best leave for them to deal with. Just remove the offending bodies.

When I worked for a short time in a dry cleaners as the stain remover, we removed all stain except ink, by steam and gently working the stain with a blunt instrument. You could try that, other wise if its bad enough she could always go through with an insurance claim, if she has one.

If the blood has dried, put a cloth soaked in normal saline (cold water with salt in it) and leave to soften. Dab as much of the blood off as possible with kitchen towel before using a proprietary carpet cleaner. On no account use hot water as the blood will set forever.

We use Dr Beckmans caret stain remover - amazing results, blood, red wine, coffee, pee from the cat!!

For small stains on carpets I used baby wipes. For some reason they work really well.

Yes I was a bit worried about the content of this post maxdecatt thought someone had finally had enough of their partner

Tesco's antibacterial spray! No idea why/how it works, it just does!

Telephone your neighbour or use email what ever contact you have and chat this over with her. Do not do anything to the carpet until you have her permission and follow her advice.

Sorry should say degreaser

We're off to Greece later this week- I'd better stock up on all these as one of our much loved cats is bound to bring in little presents- mind you she rarely kills them. I am expecting a veritable zoo when we get back.

There is a spray called Elbow Grease that is absolutely brilliant for this and many other things. It's only £1. We buy it in the Factory shop but some supermarkets stuck it now. Took squashed in blackberry out of a cream carpet straight away also tea stains, and is the best decreased I've used. HTH

After trying every commercial cleaner on a rust stain on my pale carpet (leaky radiator) I finally found this tip somewhere.
Salt and lemon juice. Just pour on some cheap table salt and follow with Jif lemon juice u til the salt is wet.
Leave for a couple of hours. I don't think I rubbed it, just vacuumed when dry.
I think blood and rust react in a similar way.
Perhaps try it out on an old rag with a pricked finger before you need it.

Nasty cats. Sorry.

I've had success with Wine No More - brilliant on wine stains on carpets but also seems to work with blood.

Ammonia

Would you believe a squib of WD40, leave for half an hour then gently dab with COLD water.

"Dried blood on carpet...." sounds like agood title for a murder mystery.