I am often asked how to remove cat urine stains from carpet. Such pet problems are natural, and it is a common problem. There are easy ways to fix this.
Cats urinate, vomit and leave hairball stains on your carpet, resulting in a foul odour. The smell can linger and get stuck within the rug or carpet, making it very difficult to remove.
Accidents do happen, and your pet can be trained to not urinate inside on certain areas, but today we are talking about getting rid of the stain, and with it the odour.
There are excellent commercially available "instant stain removers" for carpet and specialty "cat urine odor removers". If you do not have these products, I highly recommend you buy them. Some dog stain removal products can be used to clean up feline related smells and spots on your furniture.
Firstly, clean up as much of the remaining litter or residue as you can, using a paper towel or disposable cloth.
Use an absorbant paper towel to suck up the rest of the wee or other substance.
Apply gentle pressure for the most effective absorption.
Now use a damp cloth to moisten the area, and dilute the urine or other stain.
Now apply the pet stain remover or specialty carpet cleaner to the surface as directed on the bottle.
The sooner you act, the less permanent damage to the carpet. If the steps are followed carefully you should now have a clean carpet, and a fresh smelling house with no more animal stink.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Take your pet overseas?
Can you take your pet overseas with you if you move to another country? Animal Airways, a global pet-flight and relocation provider based in London, has established a new division that focuses on pet owners' need for professional veterinary guidance when shipping pets worldwide.
"Animal Airways noticed the demand for professional veterinarian services on a global level for shipping pets," says Eytan Kreiner, D.V.M., head veterinarian at Animal Airways.
"The veterinarian support team includes flight veterinarians from all continents, speaking more than 10 languages, available at all times for every matter."
The support team will offer pre-flight advice regarding flight-related treatments, vaccinations, microchips, and pet passports in response to the new rules and regulations required by countries and airlines for pet import and export.
The team's service begins with a 24/7 hotline for general information and continues until the pet is safely transported to its destination. In addition to advising pet owners. Animal Airways also advises companies that collaborate with the organisation.
For more information about Animal Airways, visit www.animalairways.com
"Animal Airways noticed the demand for professional veterinarian services on a global level for shipping pets," says Eytan Kreiner, D.V.M., head veterinarian at Animal Airways.
"The veterinarian support team includes flight veterinarians from all continents, speaking more than 10 languages, available at all times for every matter."
The support team will offer pre-flight advice regarding flight-related treatments, vaccinations, microchips, and pet passports in response to the new rules and regulations required by countries and airlines for pet import and export.
The team's service begins with a 24/7 hotline for general information and continues until the pet is safely transported to its destination. In addition to advising pet owners. Animal Airways also advises companies that collaborate with the organisation.
For more information about Animal Airways, visit www.animalairways.com
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Is a dingo smarter than your dog?
We dote on our dogs, serve them meals and let them sleep inside on cozy beds. These once-wild beasts have taken easily to domesticated life, but new research shows that humans' close relationships with dogs have caused them to lose their non-social problem-solving skills.
Ph.D. candidate and lead author Bradley Philip Smith and his colleague Carla Litchfield from the School of Psychology at the University of South Australia, put domesticated dogs and dingoes through a problem-solving test known as "the detour task." Australia's native breed, dingoes have adapted to life in the outback after their ancestors arrived on the continent with humans thousands of years ago. As a result, they have developed more wild characteristics than Max or Sadie.
The detour task requires the animals to travel around a transparent barrier to obtain a reward, in this case, a bowl of food. The barrier was a V-shaped fence with detour doors that either swing inward or outward. Researchers placed the food bowl inside or just outside the intersection point of the V barrier.
All of the dingoes found the food reward in about 20 seconds, using the detour doors whenever possible.
Domesticated dogs, on the other hand, looked puzzled and confused. They pawed at the fence, dug at it and even barked, likely out of frustration and to call for help.
Smith and Litchfield published their findings, titled "How well do dingoes (Canis dingo) perform on the detour task?" in the journal Animal Behaviour {Vol 80, Issue 1; 155-162).
Prior research showed that wolves, like the dingoes, aced this test. "Wolves will outperform dogs on any problem-solving tasks that are non-social," Smith says. "Dogs are great at social tasks - communicating with humans, using humans as tools, learning from humans via observation - whereas wolves are much better at general problem solving."
Ph.D. candidate and lead author Bradley Philip Smith and his colleague Carla Litchfield from the School of Psychology at the University of South Australia, put domesticated dogs and dingoes through a problem-solving test known as "the detour task." Australia's native breed, dingoes have adapted to life in the outback after their ancestors arrived on the continent with humans thousands of years ago. As a result, they have developed more wild characteristics than Max or Sadie.
The detour task requires the animals to travel around a transparent barrier to obtain a reward, in this case, a bowl of food. The barrier was a V-shaped fence with detour doors that either swing inward or outward. Researchers placed the food bowl inside or just outside the intersection point of the V barrier.
All of the dingoes found the food reward in about 20 seconds, using the detour doors whenever possible.
Domesticated dogs, on the other hand, looked puzzled and confused. They pawed at the fence, dug at it and even barked, likely out of frustration and to call for help.
Smith and Litchfield published their findings, titled "How well do dingoes (Canis dingo) perform on the detour task?" in the journal Animal Behaviour {Vol 80, Issue 1; 155-162).
Prior research showed that wolves, like the dingoes, aced this test. "Wolves will outperform dogs on any problem-solving tasks that are non-social," Smith says. "Dogs are great at social tasks - communicating with humans, using humans as tools, learning from humans via observation - whereas wolves are much better at general problem solving."
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