Carpet Cleaning

Steps for removing pet odor

Pet stain removal information When someone owns pets like cats or dogs, they know that it can be a pain to keep their carpets clean. No matter how well trained an animal ...

Pet odor control Odor is something that many people who own animals know all too much about. Whether housebreaking a new dog, or dealing with an animal in hi...

Pets are very capable of damaging your carpets. If they have an accident in the house, or are not very well trained, they can cause irreversible damage, if it’s not caught and taken care of immediately. Long term weakness and discoloring are among the serious dangers, but the odor is the most readily apparent. Both dog and cat urine are malodorous, but it is generally true that cat urine is worse smelling. A chemical called Torine is present, and that, along with the higher concentration of protein makes cat urine more unpleasant smelling then dog urine. Some of this has to do with the difference between cat food and dog food; some of it has to do with the age of the animal. Normally, the older the animal gets, the worse the smell. In older animals, as the makeup of the animal’s blood changes, so does the makeup of the urine.

IN order to remove them, the first think you have to do is to find them. This is easy enough to do if you find it before it dries too far. After that, it’s a little more difficult. A simple backlight in a dark room can tell you exactly where it is. In Ultra Violet light, urine fluoresces. It faintly glows. Once you’ve found it, though, getting rid of it is harder, as it may soak into the padding below the carpet and spread.

Unfortunately, often times, the only real solution is to get in there and actually remove the padding from below the carpet. The padding often absorbs the liquid like sponge. Until the liquid is removed (or the pad is removed) it won’t absorb anything else. The soiled pad must be removed before any chemicals can really take affect beyond simply cover the odor up.

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