Saturday, February 23, 2013

Removing Animal Scents From Your Carpets And Furniture

By Rossana Zucker


Despite the fact that everyone enjoys their dogs or cats, a lot of people hate the fact that when they come home from work they walk into their houses and smell nothing but their pets. One self evident remedy is to keep your cat or dog outdoors all the time and not let them in the house. But I don't know about you, but I could under no circumstances banish my dog to the backyard for the rest of his life. As a result, this article will explore some of the ways that you can remove pet odors from your home.

Assuming you might be a cat lover, you know how dreadful it is to walk into your house and get a whiff of the litter box. Something you can easily do is actually to change the cat litter every number of days as this can really help to reduce the smells. Also even if your cat litter includes baking soda in it it's possible to add more to help reduce the odors.

For you folks that have floor coverings, you will find there's really easy method of getting the smell of your dogs or cats out of the carpeting. You should locate a sizable spray bottle. You then just want to load up the bottle with water, nothing else just water. Take a walk across the carpeted parts of your home spraying them with water. You need to steer clear of soaking the carpet with an excessive amount of water. Now take a little baking soda and thoroughly sprinkle it all over the damp carpet.

At this stage, if you are one of the people who have a carpet brush just brush the carpeting so that the water and baking soda go deep into the carpeting. For anyone who is unaware of a carpet brush, this is simply a specially constructed brush to use on carpets. It actually more closely resembles a rake when compared to a common brush. These could be purchased at just about nearly any carpet store and even most hardware stores carry these brushes.

When your carpet is totally dry, it is advisable to vacuum all of the area. While this method is very effective on normal pet odors, you will need to find another treatment for urine smells. For that issue you will need to check out a pet store and tell them that your looking for pet urine odor remover. At the same time make sure that what ever they try to provide you has enzymes in it. Dog or cat enzymes are amazing when it comes to breaking down urine so that the stench can be eliminated. You may use these methods on furniture as well. You should be careful that the measures won't damage the fabric. On a closing note about the furniture cleaning. If you're in a financial position to blow a lot of money on furniture, chances are you'll just want to change out your old couch when the smell gets too bad. Or perhaps you might simply prefer to hire a professional cleaner.




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