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How to Clean Cat Urine & Remove Cat Urine Odor

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:15:08 +0000

There are some nasty smells in the world and topping the list would have to be cat urine odor. Really I don’t think there’s much worse than visiting a friend and not being able to enter their house for the foul smell of cat urine, the odor meets you at the door and hits you hard. The stench is in the carpet, the furniture, it’s in the curtains, and it’s up your nose. Someone should really tell this person how to remove cat urine odor.

Cats are creatures of habit. When they find a place to urinate they will return to that same place and continue to urinate there – the fact that it may be your carpet, furniture or curtains really has no relevance to your cat at all. Once your cat finds a place to urinate it is drawn by the smell of its own urine back to that same spot time and again. Cats like the smell of their own urine, they have marked their territory and they’re happy with that.

To stop your cat urinating in the same place you need to remove the smell of cat urine completely, not mask or hide the smell, as it will just come back and so will your cat. It really is simple once you know how and which products to use and more importantly which products not to use. You may think you need a professional remedy for cat urine – but you don’t! You don’t need a cupboard full of cat urine cleaners either. You just need a tried and tested cat urine cleaner

So let’s learn how to get rid of the smell of cat urine.

First We Should Understand the Problem…

• Cats are not big drinkers so the urine is concentrated and very potent and gives the strong cat urine odor.

• Cat urine is made up of several different bacteria strains.

• Urea and Urochrome cause the stains, which can sometimes be invisible.

• Uric acid salts cause the odor by bonding to surfaces.

• Cat urine dries on the carpet and the uric acid forms crystals in the underlay padding. The Crystals are the source of that strong ammonia smelling odor and are also the reason puss returns to that “special place”.

• Cat urine crystals are the hardest part to remove.

• Most household cat urine removers contain ammonia so they are going to make the problem worse not better, your cat will be even more attracted to that same spot to urinate as puss thinks it smells wonderful.

• We need to use a cleaner that will break down the crystals so we can get rid of the cat urine odor.

• Water only spreads the stain and will reactivate the uric acid crystals, reviving old stains and smells.

• Normal cleaners, if they don’t soak the area with ammonia, will mask the odor of cat urine for a short time, but it always returns and so will your cat!

• We need to remove both the stain AND the odor.

How to Clean Cat Urine…

• Soak up the excess cat urine from the area as soon as possible.

• Use a dry cloth or paper towel (I like to use old towels as they are absorbent by nature) – do not wet the area or the urine will spread.

• Blot the area – don’t scrub the carpet – it’s kind of like when you get an ink stain on your clothes, and you scrub it. Does the ink come out or does it spread? Cat urine works the same way in your carpet as the ink. (By the way to get ink out, don’t wet the area or it will set the ink – instead soak it in a bowl of milk – yes I said MILK – and then scrub from the outside of the stain in towards the center, a nail brush is good for this! I just thought I would throw in that tip for you – it comes in very handy when you have kids.)

• Hold the cloth or paper towel over the spot for a while – I find standing on an old towel will absorb a good amount of the cat’s urine quite well.

• Let your cleaning solution soak into the area, again use a dry towel, put it over the urine stain and put some weight on the towel. Put something heavy over the towel and leave it overnight.

• The main objective here is to be eliminating cat urine stains permanently so your cat won’t be tempted back to this spot again.

• You really need to keep your cat away from this area until all trace of the urine odor has gone.

• If your cat keeps going back place some foil over the patch until the smell of the urine has gone.

• You may need to repeat this process until all trace of the urine odor and stains have gone.

What not to use. These are not effective Cat Urine Cleaners…

• Ammonia Might – remove the stains, but it smells too much like cat urine so puss will just keep coming back to the same spot to urinate again and again.

• Water -If used by itself can spread the urine and makes the problem area so much bigger

• Citrus based products – Only masks the smell – doesn’t get rid of it permanently

• Liquid soap – Just doesn’t work – at all

• Bleach – Which smells worse – bleach or cat urine – I think it’s a draw! Plus bleach tends to fade carpet, furniture and curtains

• Carpet shampooing – Only cleans the surface, wont soak down into the underlay padding where the urine crystals are

• Hydrogen peroxide – Only removes the urine odor temporarily – the smell soon returns

• Oxygenated products – Only works on the surface, doesn’t remove the smell from deep down and can cause fading or discoloration in your carpet, furniture and curtains

What to use. How to Choose a Cat Urine Remover…

There are many cat urine cleaners on the market. You’ve probably tried some of them while trying to find how to clean cat urine, and possibly found they don’t work. Why?

The bacterium in cat urine can be very hard to kill, and until you kill the bacterium you won’t be removing an odor. You need an enzymes to remove cat urine. Get rid of the bacteria and you’re one step closer to getting rid of cat urine smell.

There is no big secret on how to select a cat urine remover. You need natural cat urine cleaners. Using a combination of products found in your home. Once you use an all natural cat urine remover, you’ll wonder why didn’t try it sooner.

Is Hair Alcohol Testing Safe?

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:42:34 +0000

Hair alcohol testing is a relatively new form of drug and alcohol testing, but with all of the other forms of testing out there, how does it compare and is it safe?

How it Works

A small sample of hair is taken from the scalp; it is usually right underneath by the scalp and close to the hairline. Then it is put through a patented forensic process using a liquid gas chromatograph to look for fatty acid ethyl ethers, or FAEE and ethyl glucuronide, or EtG markers. These markers are only produced when alcohol is in the bloodstream. The more alcohol a person consumes the greater amount of FAEE and EtG markers are present in the hair. It is completely safe and sanitary. Just like getting a haircut, it is not like getting a massage by any means, but it is pain-free.

No hair color, bleaching or physical damage, (that wouldn’t be obvious) can conceal the truth of what your body has consumed. Only shaving one’s head is the only way one can truly remove the evidence. In fact, everything that you put into your body is revealed in your head hair. When something is ingested into your body, it breaks down and gets into your bloodstream which feeds your hair. Body hair doesn’t reveal as much because you’re blood is reaching out to all of your bodies hair and true amounts of substance abuse get diluted in the process. With scalp hair, however, true concentrations of drug or alcohol abuse are found.

The interesting thing about hair alcohol testing is the span of time that it can reveal. A urine sample can prove the evidence of alcohol only for a limited time. Alcohol evaporates quickly in breath as well. That is why a police man or woman can detect the current levels of blood alcohol in a person at the scene, but it is impossible to get an accurate account of abuse days or weeks later. With hair alcohol testing, evidence of a week prior can be detected! Did you drink two weeks ago? That can be revealed months later.

Least Intrusive Method For Testing

Unlike urine alcohol testing or saliva swabbing in one’s mouth, hair alcohol testing can be performed out in the open if need be and does not require any doctor’s office or time away from work, school or the like. A certified nurse/ practitioner can come right to the person’s home or office.

Employers are investing in this technology to make sure the person they hire is fit for a technical or mentally demanding job. When an employer can feel good about hiring a surgeon who has a clean record, for example, they are going to hire that person before anyone else who may not have a squeaky clean record.

If you are a lawyer or if you work in social services and would like to show that your client is not an alcoholic and is fit to have custody of their child, hair alcohol testing can prove or as equally important, disprove the history or lack of alcohol abuse.

When a person is going through treatment for help with alcohol abuse, alcohol hair testing can show the progress of their rehabilitation process.

More and more schools, employers and social and government workers are turning to hair alcohol testing for safe, reliable and un-intrusive method for drug and alcohol testing.

Pet Stain Removers That Can Disinfect As Well As Get Rid of Stains

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:11:30 +0000

Have you thought of how much toxins pet stains contain and leave inside your carpeting. Have you ever went into your home to smell musty pet odors and then you could not notice them anymore.

You cannot notice pet odors after awhile being in the room because of your nasal cavity. The glands in the nose become adapted to the smell, but your guests will smell it.

So how can you get rid of pet stains and why should you consider trying something that disinfects the carpet as well as removes the stains.

The simple fact that pet stains are caused by urine, feces, blood, or vomit throws up a big warning. All these items can cause bacteria and rot the carpeting as well as your insides. Pet urine contains ammonia, this can be extremely harmful to you and your pet. Don’t even think about using bleach, because the mixture of bleach and ammonia will have your nose in a tail spin.

So what about vinegar?

If you are thinking about using vinegar to remove pet stains and odors then you are in for a big surprise. You see vinegar has a unique odor that really stinks in my opinion. In fact, vinegar can make your entire house smell even worse then messy pet stains and odors.

Don’t even think of using vinegar on the carpeting. Vinegar is potent and will create a funky odor for months that you will never be able to get rid of. As for pet stains and vinegar, I would recommend not to mess with it. You need something that will neutralize and deodorize the odor.

A popular raw material to clean pet stains and odors is enzymes. Pet stain removers are now beginning to use enzymes and some are using organic raw materials.

These organic pet stain removers also disinfect and can terminate bacteria so it not only cleans and deodorizes, you also will get rid of messy diseases that can harm you and your pet.

Pet stain removers are now turning to a natural safe raw material that will be able to neutralize pet stains without damaging the carpets, no matter how old the carpeting is.

Now with so many natural cleaning products developed, it is about time a few major companies have developed pet stain removers from natural raw materials. In fact the pet stain removers neutralize pet stains and odors entirely as well as been tested to get rid of bacteria. Somewhat like a disinfectant anti-microbial pet stain remover.

For free samples or to try going green with pet stain removers you can look at a few new product launches that are going to be happening like http://www.mycleaningproducts.com/pet_products.html For a limited time you can be given a chance to try there new Stainerizer pet stain remover.

Go green and be sure to stay away from harsh chemicals, not only can they hurt your carpets and furniture, they can kill you and your pets. To look for natural cleaning products research the raw materials of the MSDS sheets. These will tell you if any hazardous raw materials are contained in the formula. Solvents, acids, bleach will all contain some type of harsh chemical. While they will clean you are endangering your carpet, pets, and yourself. Go green and try using natural cleaning products for your next pet stain.

Tetrahydrocannabinol (thc)

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:43:12 +0000

Tetrahydrocannabinol is the main psychoactive substance found in the Cannabis plant and additionally in a variety of other plants. It is also known as THC, Δ9-THC, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), Δ1-tetrahydrocannabinol, or dronabinol. THC is more popular as marijuana. THC is detectable using the simple immunoassay strips only for one day after use if a rather small amount had been ingested.

The after use affects of THC:

THC is the primary active ingredient in marijuana. When ingested or smoked, it produces euphoric effects. Users have impairment of short-term memory and ability to learn. Also, it may cause temporary episodes of confusion, anxiety, or even high toxic fever. Long-term use with heavy doses may cause behavioral disorders. The peak effect of smoking THC occurs in 20-30 minutes and the total effect lasts for 90-120 minutes after one cigarette. Elevated levels of urinary metabolites are found within hours of exposure and remain detectable for 3-10 days after smoking. The main metabolite excreted in the urine is 11-nor-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid.

The THC test:

The THC drug test is based on the principle of the highly specific immunochemical reactions between antigens and antibodies, which are used for the analysis of specific substances in biological fluids. The cutoff of the test is 50 ng/ml of THC as per the SAMHSA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) norms.

Procedure and interpretation of the test:

The procedure of the THC test is as follows.

1. Remove the test disk from the foil packet, and place it on a flat, dry surface.

2. Holding the sample dropper above the test disk. Squeeze 2 drops of specimen into the sample well.

3. Interpret the test results at 3 to 5 minutes.

Three interpretations can be drawn from the THC test.

1. Positive

2. Negative

3. Invalid.

The interpretations can be drawn based on the instructions provided with the THC kit.

The limitations:

1. The test is designed for use with unadulterated human urine only.

2. There is a possibility that factors such as technical or procedural errors, as well as other substances in the urine samples may interfere with the test and cause erroneous results.

3. Adulterants such as bleach and/or alum, in urine specimens may produce erroneous results regardless of the method of analysis. If adulteration is suspected, the test should be repeated with a new sample.

4. A positive test result does not provide any indication of the level of intoxication or urinary concentration.

5. The test results read after the time mentioned on the test kit might not be consistent with the original reading obtained with in the reading period.

6. Prolonged passive smoking of THC may also produce a positive result.

Passing a Drag Test Is the First Step

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:52:35 +0000

If you are stuffed with various medicated drags in your daily life, be careful about the consequence, you may not pass a drag test if needed! It is highly recommended to the people want to pass a drag test to get a proper doctor’s certificate to prove innocence however in some cases, it does not really work. If you are a player and consume a drag as a stimulant, doctor’s certificate would be useless to pass a drag test.

The most dangerous for stimuli users is to pass a saliva test. Saliva test can detect a stimulus after three to four days of the usage. Though saliva test is not much popular among the other drag tests, it sometimes is used for the sports man. Saliva test is being used by most of the insurance companies to get a proper health picture of their ‘would be’ client. This is not the all! You may have to pass a saliva test or any other drag tests in between of insurance, too. Sometimes the insurance could be cancelled if a person does not pass a drag test!

Other than a saliva test, there are few more processes to test drag consumption in individual’s body. Among them, blood test is the most common one. Any kind of drag, including tobacco, can be found in the blood after consuming that for two to four days. Thus, it is better to not consume anything if you want to pass a blood test! Not to pass a blood test may restrict you from some good work to be done. If you want to donate blood and do not pass a blood test you would not be allowed to donate the blood even if it’s badly needed. Though you may not be stopped for tobacco or alcohol abuse but for other drag consumption is strictly restricted in case of blood donation.

Now a serious matter to discuss is about alcohol consumption. It is quite possible to happen with you if you do not pass a drag test because of alcohol addiction. You have a quite good degree with a lot of potential to work in a corporate house, yet you may get dismissed if you do not pass a drag test. So this is important to pass a drag test if you want to involve your career as a professional corporate. It is strongly recommended to you to not consume any kind of drags before you go for an interview with a corporate house for at least of six months. You may pass a drag test with blood, urine or saliva but pass a hair test is quite impossible if you consume any kind of drag within six months. You can shave or bleach or color your hair, but that is not going to save you because the toxin comes with your hair with each inch of its growth. It would be better to leave drag to pass a drag test if you want to involve yourself in a proper social life.

You May Run but You Can not Hide From a Drug Test

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:11:10 +0000

Are you on drugs? The first and last option you have is to get rid of this addiction as soon as possible. It will surely lead your life to a living hell. If can’t leave it by yourself, get admitted in a rehab. Kill this addiction before it kills you. But it will not kill you as quickly as poison; you will surely get a prolonged, painful death. This pain will be both physical and mental. If you are on drugs, you will surely get caught because you can never pass a drug test. There’s no way you can slip past a drug test.

There are various categories of drug test namely, blood test, hair test, urine test, saliva test etc. This drug tests varies according to the drugs a person is taking. Each test is meant for some special type of drugs and these few tests cover almost all the drugs that human beings get mostly addicted to. So, there is no way a person can pass a drug test, if he/she is forced have these drug tests.

However, there is detection period of every drug after which you can easily pass a drug test. The tests are unable to detect any drug if its detection period gets over. You can pass a urine test, blood test and saliva test if it has been over a week of your drug consumption. But, it’s hard to pass a hair test, because a hair test can detect drugs up to 100 days of its consumption. Saliva test can detect drugs ingested within a few days. It helps to detect drugs like Marijuana, Hashish (better known as Charas in India), cocaine, opiates, crank (methamphetamine) etc.

The most full proof drug test till now is the hair test because the other tests do not give any positive result after a week or so. Saliva test do not give any result if a drug addict has not ingested within 1-2 days. Urine test can easily be faked by applying water or any other color and odorless liquid to it. Whereas hair has been proved to give positive result within about 100 days of ingestion since the drug residue stays in the hair cuticle for more than 3-4 months. Bleaching or coloring the hair does not help them. So, it is obvious that you will not pass a drug test if you undergo hair test for drugs.

The young generation of the present world is the worst victim of drug addiction. They often start taking drugs sometimes just for fun, experimentation or even curiosity and sometimes even just to get the attention of their friends. But this curiosity gives them back some devastating result. They get addicted to this poison. This also affects the society a lot. People often steal or get into illegal business for earning his daily dope. The only way to get out of this addiction is to get admitted to a rehab. Say no to drugs, it can ruin your future. It’s important for your life to pass a drag test.

Hair Alcohol Testing for Senior Prom, not Your Grandma’s Prom Night

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:13:18 +0000

It’s definitely not like it use to be when kids would spike the punch bowl. Those times are over. For a safe prom night, high schools all over the country are enforcing breathalyzer tests when students get to the door.

Because of the deterrent, school officials feel that it gives the students one more reason to say no to alcohol that night. Parents and teachers are in strong support of the tests because no one wants to find out on Monday that someone was killed in a drunk driving accident.

The breathalyzers may prevent students from drinking at the prom night but what about students who may have a real problem with drinking alcohol? For problem users, school officials and counselors are using a revolutionary test called hair alcohol testing. The hair alcohol test would be a test that is only given periodically instead of daily or weekly.

With as much as an inch and a half of hair cut from the scalp of a student, a hair alcohol testing laboratory can find out what a person’s approximated consumption of alcohol has been up to a 30 day history and if the hair sample is longer, as much as a year of alcohol consumption can be tested. Using sensitive equipment, a small sample of hair can reveal everything a person has consumed from vitamins, drugs and now even alcohol.

The rate that alcohol leaves the body in hours and minutes makes it extremely difficult to judge how much a person has consumed and how long ago it was that the person consumed it. What else is difficult to uncover is the history someone has of alcohol abuse. A series of assessments called FAEE, fatty acid ethyl esters and EtG alcohol testing are done to measure the amount of FAEE and EtG markers that are revealed in the tests. The more alcohol a person has consumed, the more markers will be present on a test. Since one test at the beginning of the school year could reveal problem drinkers, those students could be treated instead of punished and then use the same hair alcohol test to measure progress.

Hair alcohol testing is really the least intrusive test you can give to students without causing the need for extra attention to an already sensitive topic. Plus, unlike urine alcohol testing, it can’t be tampered with. Bleach, hair dye or other external contaminants will not affect the outcome of the test. Only shaving one’s head will affect the results of the test as there would not be any evidence which to test.

Testing students as they attend prom is definitely an intrusive and tacky means to test students in their gorgeous gowns and tuxes but with hair alcohol testing, merely showing their student ID would be perfectly acceptable and just like attending prom, 50 years back.

Pass a Drag Test: Pass a Social Responsibility

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:43:14 +0000

If you want to get a job in corporate sector or in the administrative sectors of state or want to shine your career in sports, you must pass a drag test. A drag test is something that detects all kind of illegal drag consumptions inside the body of a human being through some tests. You must pass a drag test if you want to prove yourself in any of these fields. Most of the time, it is blood or urine sample that are been used for these kind of tests. Since Drag consumption is marked as an abuse, you need to pass a drag test before been involved with any kind of professional commitment in your social activity. It is important for the both side, the employer and the employee, since it has a strong relation with social repercussion.

In order to the kind of test, hair drag test becomes a powerful way to access the level of abuse by drag an individual is participating in. the test does not only detect marijuana, cocaine or other devastating drag abuse, it is also useful for alcohol consumption. If you are habituated to a particular drag, it’s quite impossible to pass a hair test since the toxic sticks to your hair. You may bleach or color your hair continuously to hide it for sometimes but not for long since it keeps the sign for near about hundred days. With a consequence, it would come to your small grown hair too if you start to shave your hair regularly. In addition to that, there’s nothing to hide in a hair test, since it can be colleted openly as a body sample unlike the urine test.

Now, you can ask a simple question. Why do you have to pass a drag test? You may think you can work as hard as possible with or without consuming any kind of drags. Wrong! It is proved by various physical and psychological tests to a lot of people that drags cause exertion. It reduces the power of normal fitness a healthy adult can have. You may argue that it does not affect your work at all! It may be a truth for your existence but a threat for the society if you hold any responsible or honorable post that shows you as an example. You mast pass a drag test to give the security to the society from your part of responsibility.

If you are an alcoholic and not addicted to any other drag, you also may have point to defense. However, you must remember, as a social being whatever you earn is actually a property of state and you cannot misuse that continuously. Thus, if you wan to live as a social being, want to earn money in an honest way and want to live an honorable life you should pass a drag test which is not really difficult. It’s not a crime if you drink occasionally to remove the stress of work, or adventurously test a drag in a long holiday when you are far from the maddening crowd. However, that never stops you to pass a drag test!

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Urine Drug Testing

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:58:59 +0000

Urine drug testing is the most commonly used and federally mandated method of drug testing. Urine drug testing is used both as on-site tests and for laboratory analysis. It is said to be one of the most economical drug testing method with lower maintenance cost, yet often said to be with lower effectiveness.

Pros and Cons of Urine Drug Testing

As in the case of all other drug-testing methods, urine drug testing also has some advantages and disadvantages. It is also one of the most controversial methods of drug testing. Inexpensiveness, easy to perform, and providing reliable results are some of the advantages of urine drug testing. High levels of invasiveness and high potential of adulteration are some disadvantages. The following are some advantages and disadvantages of urine drug testing in detail.

Advantages of urine drug testing:

Urinalysis is one of the economical methods available to test people for drug abuse. Its least expensiveness made it popular with various organizations. Urine drug testing can detect the abuse of more than five to twelve drugs at a time. The drugs, which can be detected using urinalysis, include cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, morphine, benzodiazepines, alcohol, hydromorphone, tetrahydrocannabinol, propoxyphene, methadone, codeine, and barbiturates.

Disadvantages of urine drug testing:

The specimen collection process is the controversy and it is the major disadvantage of urine drug testing. Collecting specimen in urinalysis is highly invasive. Since, it is not feasible to collect specimen under reliable supervision, there is high possibility of specimen tampering. Other tampering methods include drinking excess water and using some adulterants like chlorine bleach, liquid drain cleaner, white vinegar, glutaraldehyde, etc.

There are many commercial products available in the market, which have potential to flush illicit substance out of the body and thus tamper the drug testing results easily. Urinalysis cannot be used to detect immediate drug abuse. It requires some time for the drug to be ingested into the body.

Urine drug testing is the affordable and suitable method for random drug testing at home and organizations and is easy to execute. Though there are some cons in urinalysis, it is still the classic drug testing method.

Carpet Cleaning Tips

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:21 +0000

Take a closer look at the bottoms of those shoes and you’ll find oil, dirt and heaven only knows how many bits of leftover dog deposits. Small wonder why your carpet stubbornly refuses to come clean. Do wear slippers or socks inside. The oil from the bottom of your feet also dirties the carpet.

Vacuum your carpet regularly, and do not use liquid carpet shampoos to clean them. Ever wash your hair and forget to rinse out all the shampoo? The same thing happens to your carpet. The shampoo can’t be completely rinsed out, leaving a sticky residue. That residue acts like a big magnet pulling the dirt from the bottom of your shoes. Now you have clean shoes and even dirtier carpets. Use dry carpet cleaners instead. Stores selling vacuum cleaners carry dry carpet cleaners.

Getting out old shampoo becomes the trick. Rent a shampoo machine that cleans with water. Mix 1 cup vinegar per 2 ½ gallons of water and clean according to directions. Go back over the carpet with warm water only. The vinegar pulls out the old shampoo, cleaning the carpet as well. It may take a time or two, but your carpets will be soft and free from grime. The hot water reactivates the shampoo already in the carpet, providing the needed cleansing action.

Stains in carpet can be a hassle to remove. Never rub a stain, just blot. Rubbing breaks down the fibers and spreads the stain. Remove most food stains with shaving cream. Spray on and resist the temptation to rub it in, then let it set for 15 minutes. Rinse with a vinegar and water solution.

Club soda generally removes red wine stains. Remove red dye stains (found in drink mixes, Popsicles, dog and cat food) with a 30/70 solution of peroxide to water. Remember, peroxide is bleach, so test an inconspicuous spot first for color fastness. Apply the mixture, wait 30 minutes, then remove as much moisture as possible and rinse with a vinegar/water solution. If the stain remains, add a bit more peroxide to the mixture and retreat.

Brake cleaner also does a good quick job of removing most food stains. Dab a little on a clean cloth and gently blot the stain. Rinse with soap and water. Brake cleaner contains the same chemical professional dry cleaners use to clean stains in clothing. Do not pour brake cleaner directly into the carpet. It could dissolve the adhesive holding the fibers in the carpet.

Oops, the dog had an accident and the stain and smell refuse all attempts at removal. First try an enzyme product. Pour on enough to saturate to the pad and treat an area twice as large as the stain. Urine hits the pad and spreads. Let it set a couple of hours. You’ll find enzyme products at pet stores, RV or marine stores. They are used in the holding tanks to dissolve solid material.

Should that not remove all the stain or odor, baking soda and peroxide remain your best hope. Mix a 30/70 solution of peroxide to water adding 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda per cup of mixture. Yes, it bubbles and fizzles, but not before removing the stain and smell. Always test a spot first for colorfastness. Peroxide is bleach and may discolor the carpet. Blot up what you can with an old towel and rinse well with 1/3 cup vinegar per quart of water.

If you see red spots on your carpet where your pet just lost its lunch, switch food to a neutral colored food. The red dye in pet food is the culprit behind those spots. Dogs and cats are colorblind, so they can’t tell the difference. Again, use the 30/70 peroxide and water combination for removal.

Oil, grease, magic marker and ink can be the dickens to remove. Most janitorial companies or department stores carry a product called DeSolvit. WD40 or Orange Clean also work wonders at removing these stubborn stains. Rubbing alcohol removes ink. Blot on, allow to set 30 minutes and blot to remove. Rinse with sudsy water. Magic marker is generally permanent and you may not be able to remove it.

Gum - Freeze gum with ice cubes and chip off what you can with the blunt side of a kitchen knife. DeSolveit removes the rest.

Wax – Freeze with ice and chip off what you can with the blunt side of a knife. Wax needs heat for removal. Some of the newer carpets are quite sensitive to heat and scorch easily, so test an out of the way spot first. You can also use a hair dryer set to the hottest setting.

Set your iron to a low to medium heat. The less heat you use, the less chance of scorching your carpet. Take a white paper towel or paper bag with no writing on it (the dye will transfer to the carpet) Put the towel down on top of the wax and iron the towel for no longer than two seconds. Move the towel and redo if necessary. Generally once is enough.

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