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| Uh-oh! (Photo by Simona Nováková) |
Last week Janice offered
some advice for preventing cat hairballs. Keeping with the pet theme, let’s
talk today about that other pet problem that has plagued all us pet owners from
time to time—accidents. It’s bad enough when Puss in Boots or Snoopy piddles on
the linoleum, but it’s ten times worse when the accident occurs on carpeting. A
hundred times worse when it’s wall-to-wall carpeting because the urine seeps
down into the padding. Shampoo as much as you want, you’re not going to get
that smell out once it’s trapped in the carpet padding. Many a homeowner has
had to replace carpeting thanks to her pet’s lack of bladder control. But wait! Before you
spend hundreds of dollars on new carpeting, try this trick:
Fill a syringe with white
vinegar, and inject the vinegar through the carpet into the carpet pad. Make
sure you hit all the smelly areas. The vinegar should neutralize the urine, eliminate the odor, and save you from having to replace your carpet. Unless that carpet is orange shag from the 1970's. In that case, you might want to go ahead and replace it. ;-)
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