Follow my blog with BloglovinWe love our pets, but we aren’t a huge fan of the messes they leave behind. In light of the recent accidents my puppy has made around my house I decided to compile a list of cleaning tips and tricks to help you keep your house smelling like human and not like dog.
Spend With Pennies shows us this great idea for stooping your puppy from marking his territory all over your house. Take some Vicks VapoRub and mark the places he usually does his business. It will cover the scent that is already there and stop him from marking there again.
DogingtonPost at eBay wrote an article about ways you can keep your home from smelling like a kennel, and the first tip is to groom them regularly. This can keep those unwanted dog smells from permeating your house through the dander they leave behind.
Dogington Post also recommends cleaning their bedding regularly. It’s another place that collects a lot of their dander and hair and could definitely be the source of that odor you can never seem to get rid of.
ShockBlast showed us a series of ads 3M put together to demonstrate just how strong their lint rollers were when it came to picking up pet hair. They’re humorous, but prove a point. Lint rollers are your best friends when it comes to ridding your house of pet hair.
If you’re in a pinch and don’t have a lint roller, just wrap some packing tape around your hand and use it as a makeshift lint roller. Such a great idea from Immaculata University.
Real Simple told us that one of the best ways to get pet hair off of couches is to use a damp rubber glove. Just get it a little wet and rub it all over that nasty hair. It should clump right up and let you pick it off nice and easy.
Buzzfeed showed us this awesome trick to get all the hair off the carpet with a squeegee. It works surprisingly well!
Practically Functional has a great tip for keeping the litter box area clean and all it takes is a garage mat! The key to this success is the giant holes in the mat. This helps keep the litter they track out of the box in the space it should be.
Lilacs and Longhorns told us that one of the best ways to keep your house clean is to vacuum regularly (furniture and carpet). That way you stay on top of the various messes and hairs that get left behind.
The Bold Abode has a great recipe for carpet deodorizer that’s incredibly easy to make. All you do is sprinkle it on the carpet, let it sit for a little while and then vacuum normally.
And finally, Domesticability tells us one of the best ways to clean your pet toys. They’re a hidden germ fest. You can wash the hard toys in the dishwasher, and the plush toys in the washing machine just fine. Use minimal soap because soap can be bad for the pets.
The Nest has an awesome recipe for a repellent spray that can keep your pets off the couch so that the hair never gets there in the first place. All it takes is some water, essential oils, and cayenne pepper.
Hi, I washing my dog’s toys and bedding in baking soda and vinegar mix .Everything is very clean and what is important safe for my dog.
What combination baking soda and vinegar do you use?
The Norwex rubber brush is great for removing hair from stairs, comforters, between the baseboards and carpets, etc. They run $15 and you will save a lot of money from purchasing tape rollers.
It’s appalling that you include a photo of a dog inside of your washer or dryer. WTF? What if someone thinks they should wash their dog in the washing machine? Yeah, that would be appallingly stupid, but I would not be surprised if someone did it because they saw that picture.
That’s a TOY, not a real dog.
Okay, so #4 was a real dog and that was not to bright to post that there.
You are wrong. Its a real dog in one of the next thing pics.
Agree. We have thousands of animal abusers out there….they don’t need more ammunition.
Your dumb it’s a stuffed animal
My dog got intoxicated to the vicks vaporub and go to the Emergenxy room… so not doing that…
THE LAST TIP IS RIDICULOUS – NOT TO MENTION DANGEROUS. Have you ever gotten cayenne pepper in your eyes by mistake? Not pleasant. If a pet is used to getting up on a couch, or your dog goes inot a red zone when mailman or another dog goes by, and your couch or chair is near a window where he usually hops up to bark at them – the cayenne pepper may not only get in its eyes and nose, but also on paws.
How cruel and stupid is it to spray furniture with a compound that would cause so much pain to a pet. Or maybe a toddler?
If you do not want your pets on the furniture, maybe keep them out of the living room when they cna’t be supervised?
This sounds like a lazy solution at best.
Great tips. My pets are family, allowing them on the furnature accumulates mega hair! Wet and ring out a microfiber cloth and it will wipe the hair off couch and curtains. I’d go through a lot of rollers. *add fabreeze to the wet cloth, two fur 🙂
Please don’t use Febreeze. It’s full of chemicals. It’s not safe for you or your pets. All it does is masks odors.
Your right about febreeze, I make a solution with a drop of lavender oil just a couple of drops
and use a micro fiber cloth..great for cat and dog hair and your stuff smells nice..
I just wiped with micro fiber cloth ,added Peppermint essential oil to water. Nice smell .
We use Gain or Downy in a spray bottle,1/2 capful then fill with water,works great!
I meant to add,gain or downy fabric softener
The best thing is to use the rotating brush attachment on your vacuum sweeper. Takes the fur out of fabric furniture, carpeted steps, and the like easy leash. You’re running the vac anyway…just attach it and poof, all
gone.
Great tips! I will keep them clean.
Thanks for sharing! The Vicks ideas is interesting!
I use baking soda and vinegar for all of my babies bedding and toys, it does wonders. Also can add a splash of lemon juice if you want a light scent but only a splash!
Some really great tips in here! I agree with you on doing all the things regularly and they become way less of a hassle.