How to Remove Pet Stains and Odors from Carpets

If you have pets, accidents happen and most often they happen on carpets. But there’s no need to panic. There are several methods of removing dog urine—and the distinctive odor it creates—from carpets without using chemicals that may be harmful to you or your pet.

Every pet owner has been there — your puppy is going through training and is good 95% of the time or your cat is not happy and is making a statement to make his demands met! Urine stains and odors on a rug or wall-to-wall carpet (even worse) can not be dismissed.

Here are some tips that will help you clean your pet’s accident and hopefully will help remove odors and stains.

How to Remove Pet Urine and Odors from Your Carpet

Time is of the essence here, so take a deep breath and gather your best defenses: a roll of paper towels, a few bags to contain the mess, a bottle or can of your go-to spray of spot remover or cleaner, a white rag or old towel.
Blot up as much of the urine as possible with paper towels. If you want to step on the paper towels, the best way to do so is to take a few plastic grocery bags and either put them on top of the towels or wrap your shoes with them and then proceed to discard. This will eliminate tracking any of the urine or the odor to any other areas in your home or on the surrounding rug.
Put a few drops of green dish detergent and a little water on the area, place a towel over it and step on it so it absorbs as much as possible.
Make sure not to scrub! Scrubbing your rug will make more of a mess and push the urine further into the carpet fibers and surrounding area.
When you think you have as much of the pet accident up as possible, blot the area again using the old towel. Make sure that the towel is soaked in warm water and lightly wrung but not dripping. But be careful not to get the area too wet— you may force that urine even deeper into the carpet.
Blot the area again but this time with a dry paper towel.
The leading store-bought products made for removing the stain and smell of pet urine from carpets use the power of enzymes to do the work and are non-toxic for pets. Enzymes are proteins that help kick off natural chemical reactions at the molecular level, and the enzymes in pet carpet care products attach themselves to the molecules that make up the urine and bacteria that feed on it (producing the foul odors) and catalyze their breakdown.
For more stubborn stains and aromas, there are several green enzymatic cleaners you can find to spray on your carpet or, if you have older stains to tackle, consider calling in a professional, as sometimes spot-removal isn’t enough.

If your pet has had an accident on your carpet and you need carpet cleaning help or advice give Dream Steam a call. Dream Steam has technicians who are specially trained to help remove pet urine from carpets.

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