Removing Pet Stains from Your Carpet

When you bring your new cute, furry adopted family member home you can be sure of two things. The puppy will be adorable, and the little creature will do things on your carpet that will shock and disgust you. Biological waste material is a simple fact of pet ownership, and you will want to deal with this problem as soon as possible.

Puppy Pads: The first line of Carpet Defense

Unless you are in a position to allow the new pet instant access to the out of doors at all times then you will need some puppy pads placed on spaces where there is no carpet. Let the puppy know through praise or treats that going on the pads is good, but doing anything on the carpet is bad. Most puppies will want very much to get the praise, the treat and most of all your approval, but like any little animal control is sometimes hard to maintain. You will want to have plenty of very specific cleaning supplies handy to save your furniture and carpeting.

Spotbot: Your Carpet’s best friend

Dog’s instinct drives them to eliminate where they have defecated or urinated before since they feel it is a ‘safe’ place if they smell those odors lingering on the ground. To keep the pet from re-offending the carpet several times in one place you need to get that smell complete out. Just to make matters a little tougher, a dog’s nose allows them to pick up scents a thousand times better than a human being.

This means you need to get the area where a dog has eliminated very, very clean as quickly as possible. Two of your best tools for this type of cleanup are using a wet vac device and an enzyme spray type cleaner for overall cleaning.

Chasing your little puppy around the house with a regular size rug shampooer would wear you out quickly, but the Bissell 1200B SpotBot is compact and can work hands-free. This can give your carpet the deep down cleaning it needs to rid all of the offending material from your carpet thus eliminating the smell.

For smaller accidents, you might try an enzyme cleaner that will also do deep cleaning and eliminate much of the smells that can tempt pets into thinking they have found a place to pee.

Try to keep the dog out of the area while the carpeting dries. There are sprays and pour products in most pet stores that can give the carpet a scent clue that this isn’t a place to do their business. Wait until the carpet is dry before using these and then kept the pet from the area as you spray. These chemicals give off no odors that humans can pick up fortunately.

As you bond with your pet and have a chance to train the little one there will eventually come a time when you feel less like a professional carpet cleaner and more like a satisfied pet owner.

Photo credits: stu_spivack

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