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03-10-2007, 12:07 PM | #1 |
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| My house smells like dog PEE!!!HELP!!! We have two Yorkies and they do pee on the pee pads inside, but seems like for the past few months they are peeing more on the carpet than on the pads. We have tried all kinds of carpet cleaners and of course when we see the pee we blot up and spay oder killer and stainer remover stuff from the pet store on it. Don't think anything we use is really helping. When you first walk in the door you smell the pee. Please help! Any recommendations of getting the pee smell out of the carpet without getting new carpet would be appreciated. Thanks |
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03-10-2007, 12:57 PM | #2 |
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| My guess is if the smell is that strong, that there may some some spots you haven't found and treated. Try using a black light at night with all the lights off and see if that's true. Then enzyme the heck out of any spot that shows up under the black light. Shampoo the carpet well, let it dry, shampoo it again - this time add some enzyme to the cleaner (see bottle instructions) and let it dry. You may have to shampoo several times to get all the pee out. When you shampoo and the wet carpet doesn't smell like pee, you're in good shape. I don't know that anything takes the smell completely away, but this does a pretty good job of it. Then you have to stay on top of the spots they pee in. If they aren't crated or restricted while you're gone, it's going to happen over and over. I highly recommend restricting them to one area that's not carpeted if you don't already. I have a handheld steamer-vac that I use as soon as I can on accidents. it was a good $30 investment on eBay. Plus I shampoo frequently. Hope this helps - I know it sounds like a lot of work and - yep, it is! |
03-10-2007, 02:40 PM | #3 |
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| I just put new carpet in 1 1/2 ago. But with 3 yorkies all the dog smells get trapped in the carpet and I feel like it stinks. They go outside to potty, and have very few accidents, but it stresses me out more to have carpet cause I don't want people to visit, and immediatly walk in and smell dog. So my resolution to this??? I'm taking the carpet out and replacing it with hardfloor of some kind. I told my hubby this is his new project. I'm not really sure what kind of cleaner will actually do the job the best. I agree that using a blacklight will help you find some spots you might have missed. I personally think that dogs and carpet just don't mix.
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03-10-2007, 02:40 PM | #4 |
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| In my opinion, there is no way to get pee smell out of carpets, no matter what you use. It soaks through to the pad and there is no way to clean the pad and get the cleaner and the smell out of the pad. My recommendation is to rip out the carpet and put in tile, laminate, or wood. If you do a search on this site, you will see that is what a lot of us have done. I have two little Yorkie boys, one NEVER goes in the house, the other one marks. Thankfully, we put down wood before we even got them and I can't imagine what would have happened if we had still had carpet!!! Well I know what would have happened, we would be ripping out carpet by now! I know it sounds radical and I know it is expensive but life with wood/tile/laminate/concrete (some of our floors are stained concrete) floors is just so easier than worrying about sprinkles on the floor.
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03-10-2007, 03:26 PM | #6 |
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| I had the same problem in the past. Unfortunately any carpet cleaner I used (including proffessional) only masked the smell temporilly. Once the pee gets into the pads I don't think there is really anything you can do other than replace the carpet.
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03-10-2007, 05:02 PM | #7 |
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| Were going to take our carpet up also. I clean the stains, but I can still smell it. I've tried everything.
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03-10-2007, 06:44 PM | #8 | |
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03-11-2007, 01:23 AM | #9 |
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| I agree with the hardwoods. We have hardwoods and tile only in our house. I rolled up all the orientals (because some are antique) for 6 months until I felt that the puppy was reliable. I still have no rugs in the kitchen, where he is confined, if I cannot watch him. He is almost 1 yr and reliable but I probably won't trust him alone for a long time to come. |
03-11-2007, 03:20 AM | #10 |
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| Well im lucky i have no carpet at all in my house i got wooden floorin all over it. I have caught Missy peeing on mats though, i think if u can get it mopped up quick enough this helps. |
03-11-2007, 03:28 AM | #11 | |
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03-11-2007, 05:14 AM | #12 |
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| I try to get to the stains right away. Simple Solution works well. But there is always going to be something of it there in the carpet. So, every 2-3 weeks, I clean my carpets with my Bissell Pro-Heat deep cleaning carpet cleaner. It is the best machine I have ever tried. Much better than those rentals! I use the Bissell Pet Odor shampoo with it. This thing will even get out those stains you missed that have set it. Just pretreat the stain, wait 5 minutes and then use the cleaner as usual. I just did my whole house last week and it still looks and smells wonderful right now. Eventually I will replace the carpet with hardwood, but it is still too new. After a carpet cleaning, it looks brand new -- so we will deal with this for a few years yet. I have to admit, Yorkies seem to be the most difficult to house train. I had thought our dachshund had been a tough case, but the Yorkies are taking longer than she did. I also just bought a Dyson Animal DC17 vacuum -- I absolutely love this. It is picking up so much stuff from the carpet, it has to be helping keep down odors as well. I think all that hair and gunk that sifts down in the carpet holds smells too. So, a really good vacuum helps.
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03-11-2007, 03:03 PM | #13 |
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03-11-2007, 05:07 PM | #14 |
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| I think if the smell is that bad then pulling up the carpet would be the place to start. I also think I would start crate training them if house breaking other way isn't working. Maybe they need more potty breaks outside till they get the hang of it.
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03-11-2007, 07:17 PM | #15 |
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| Before you rip it up. Get a black light. Hit all the stains with Simple Solution ( I mean really saturate the areas so it gets down to the pad. I used a watering can to control where I needed it most). Then let it dry completely, this may take a couple of days. After it has dried, look at the areas with the black light again to make sure the stains have been taken care of. Now, steam clean with The Rug DOctor (rental) or your own machine with the Simple solution added to the water. Let this dry completely (Use fans to help with the drying). Smells and stains should be gone. To give it a fresher scent I go over the areas I treated with "Woolite Oxy Deep 2" ( comes in a silver double canister that you have to shake to activate the oxygen in the solution). I did this because I had a dog that marked and I was getting another puppy and I sware this puppy has not gone on the carpet where the old dog went yet and I always find him sniffing for something. I would try this before I went to the expense of new expensive flooring if you'd like delay doing it for a while. I thought I was going to get wood flooring until this worked very well and now I can use that money for something else. Sorry this was so long, but I thought I could help you. Good luck |
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