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 Steps
for removing pet odor
Learning effective steps for removing pet odor is important to those who
provide homes for pets.
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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