PETS AND PROBLEMS

Our pets bring us years of enjoyment, affection, and fond memories. It’s almost hard to imagine life without them. But Fido and Fluffy, no matter how well trained, can leave us little reminders that they are around.

There are 3 dimensions to a urine stain: the obvious odor, the discoloration and the health consideration.

The odor is unpleasant, and even worse when there is moisture present or high humidity which re-activates it. A rain on a hot day is a classic re-activator of urine & many other odors. Effective handling of urine contamination may include the carpet, the pad, and possibly the subfloor.

The discoloration in urine contamination is an actual dye and can indeed redye your carpet, particularly light and pastel colored carpets. This can happen immediately or over time. Our PeeBe Gone Process has given us incredible results for discoloration.

Urine allowed to remain in fabrics is unsanitary. When kids play on the carpet, invariably the same fingers touch the urine contamination also touch the eyes, ears, nose etc. The carpet must be sanitized and the bacteria counteracted. The good news is no matter how bad it is there is a solution. With proper training, solutions, equipment and methods, we can effectively treat urine contamination.

However, prevention is easier to handle than the remedy and is more cost effective. Cleanup accidents immediately (see our steps to remove urine for more help) or check out our urine specific product that we sell at our office called Ur-Out.

Choose wisely how to raise & train your pet. When struggling with training issues, we highly recommend using the local public library as there are a number of book on that subject (we assume they may be found on-line as well). We also find homes with "doggie doors" such at those available through "PetSafe" (available locally & on-line) work wonderful for limiting the amount of potential damage in a home. We also suggest that every home have a small water extraction spotting machine found at department stores. The ones that have a hand held vacuum tool work best as the vacuums in these units are too weak to handle a 8 -12" wide water extraction, so stick with those that have a 2 -3" wide tool for you to use. Heat options are beneficial! "Spot-Bot" with heat is one such brand available.

Other issues from pets include fecal stains. Most often, these will wash away readily when you have a spotting machine with hot water. Doing them by hand can be done, but much more challenging depending on its severity. Another issue is vomit. Vomit issues are usually tied to what is in the diet before it arrives, so often treat them like food spills. Yellow bile that sometimes appear with this is very difficult to remove depending on its color intensity. Allow you cleaning solutions to sit / dwell longer for help on that issue - but sometimes bile is not removable. Pets on medicine will be often more difficult to deal with.

We wish you & your pet many happy & loving years together! We are here to help whenever accidents occur.

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