Any fellow clean freaks out there?
 

Sometimes I don't know why I have a dog, and I wonder how I ever had 2 of them before Milo died. I have such an obsession with cleanliness that it's ridiculous. Some people have told me that since I have a dog, I can't expect to be as clean as a non-pet owner. To that, I say no way! I absolutely strive to make it so that if you were to walk into my house, there isn't any way you could even tell we have pets. With cats, it's easy since they're really clean animals. That's probably why I've loved cats so much, they're so little work. They never have accidents, they wash themselves, and they generally behave.

Then there's the Yorkie. Whenever I get home from work and let him out of the kitchen, I make sure to smell him and his paws first to make sure he doesn't smell. I don't want any bad smells on my carpet or my furniture. Secondly, while he runs around on the carpet I watch his every move so there's no accidents. If he tries to run upstairs to get out of my line of vision, I call him back down. He knows by now I don't like it when he's out of my sight.

I vacuum all the time. I don't leave out too many toys because it just looks like a mess to me! But it is a success, because if you were to walk into the house, I don't think you could tell he even exists. All you'd see is the two cats staring at you, most likely.

Does anybody else have an obsession with keeping everything looking and smelling clean?? It's pretty much to the point that I'll about sacrifice anything to keep things clean.

Really? You think cats are completely the opposite! I think the litter box is disgustingly nasty (I hate scooping and emptying it once a week!). Cat also shed so hair sticks to everything.

My two dogs are easy! I just Swiffer often, use Yankee candles, and bathe them once a week.

Well, the litter box is put in a guest bathroom that's never used, so it's easy to keep it out of the line of people's vision that come over. Plus, we always buy the best litter we can for odor reduction and make sure to keep the boxes pretty clean. I'll take them outside and hose them off sometimes too, just to be sure.

As far as hair goes, it depends on the cat a lot. We have 2 cats; 1 that sheds a lot and one that sheds little.

My main problem is just smells though. I get worried sick he'll walk through his own urine and spread it in my house. I look at bad smells as embarrassing things.

dont sweat the small stuff!!! life it too short :)

I'm am an extreme neat freak. I just got my fur baby about two weeks ago and I am constantly following him around to make sure there are no accidents. I vaccuum my house at least once a day not to mention spot cleaning on the carpet. I know exactly how you feel!!:animal36

Ah, I can't stop. I'm very OCD, diagnosed and all. I just feel that since the house is pretty new that I need to do all I can to keep it looking and smelling new so that the value stays up.

If you haven't already, get that Woolite Pod thing for cleaning stains. I'm telling you, it's a miracle worker.

I consider myself a clean freak too but to me this sounds so sad. I'm proud to be a dog owner and want people to see and know I have dogs. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. I don't want my house to smell or look messy either but having doggie toys scattered all over the family room tells me they are having fun. I always pick them all up before bed time.

I just hope that you enjoy having them around!!!

OCD here to. I also smell Izzy to make sure so doesnt smell like pee and everything is hardwood except the bedrooms. and shes not allowed on them. I could go on and on with this novel.

I didn't mean it in a bad way. It's just my way of saying that I like to keep an immaculate house. Heck, I'd like to have so you can't even know that *I* live there! No messes by anybody!

I was a clean freak to the extreme until someone said to me one day do you want to be remembered after you die as just someone who had a spotless house. It so struck home for me , my mum died when I was 13 and we all talk about her and all the quirks that went with living with a clean freak. Sadly it is how we all remember her and how we were not allowed to truly live in our own home.

I have lightened up a lot even though my house is still clean we are allowed to live in it , dog toys and all.

Hardwood. I'm jealous. I want to get some of that before the year is out. Definitely in the dining room and maybe the living room. That would ease my concerns quite a bit.

I used to be a clean freak and then came Maddie, and now Libby. My home, car and yard were immaculate. Now I can't keep everything perfect...I wash the windows, they smear them up...I pick up their toys...they drag them out again. My house is still clean...it just doesn't look as tidy as it used to and I've gotten so I don't worry about it.

I agree..that's another reason I don't own cats...;) plus, they jump up on the table and kitchen counters(even when the owners don't think they do), to me, I think cats are totally opposite and aren't as clean as dogs..plus my brothers cat(that he finally took to a no kill shelter at the age of 14, was spayed, but, yet started urinating on everything, that\'s why they got rid of her..