Pets and rugs

[bridgertonmodiste]

We have a dog and two cats.

Dog not allowed upstairs.

Downstairs in our kitchen/family room we have karndean floors. I bought a large shaggy rug from dunelm which warmed things up and looked lovely

However the dog keeps weeing on. I fear the cats also joined in.

He did it once, I think because he was frightened of the storms. Then he just carried on.

I bought a rug doctor but it doesn't make any difference. It stinks and I need to throw it out, despite it only being 6 months old.

We used to have a rug before which he never weed on.

Is there a solution or shall I just go without a rug. I don't want to buy a new one for the same thing to happen.

This was the rug

www.dunelm.com/product/cosy-teddy-rug-1000169274?defaultSkuId=30845130

You need to clean it with something designed especially for breaking down pet wee smells , if you just clean it then can still smell the wee and may still wee there.

As an aside I was looking at this rug in natural for our sitting room - sounds like you'd recommend it!

I have cats (no dog). I love those type of rugs but I wouldn't have that type of higher pile rug with pets because it's impossible to hoover all the fur out of it. And if one of them pukes on it...!

You definitely need to throw that one out because the cats will still be able to smell the urine and will keep going back to it.

We have wooden floors with rugs and the rugs haven't been wee'd on. I would try another rug and see what happens. If it gets wee'd on you will know it's not going to work.

I use the rug doctor pet one which is supposed to do that but doesn't seem to have an effect.

I used to use those machine washable rugs, perfect for pets.
But TBH now the dogs are 12, 15 and 16 I just go without rugs....really cant trust them not to get confused anymore!

The rug is currently in the garden.

I've mopped all the floors and the house already smells better.

I'm waiting till ours stops actually eating the rugs before I replace the sorry tattered objects that they are.

To get rid of the smell of pet wee, you need to use an enzyme cleaner such as biological washing liquid or powder.

Mix up a a good quantity of the powder/liquid with hand hot water. Don’t use boiling water as this will kill the enzyme. Wash the rug outside, scrubbing the mixture into the pile and into the backing. Then let it sit, soaking wet, for 20-30 minutes. Rinse with a hose or buckets of water. The rug should now smell okay. If not, repeat the process.

Let it dry by lifting it onto a strong washing line or similar.

Good luck!

I've been through this for many years now and when my giant breed was younger I HAD to have rugs to stop her hurting her joints on the wooden floors. Same for the older dogs who has painful joints.

At first I just bought cheap rugs from B&M, then binned them as they got soiled/smelled as it was cheaper to do that than get them cleaned.

Since then I found Ruggable. They have a huge washable selection (but I think they are very expensive for the composition), however I treated myself to a lovely one in a pattern I couldn't get anywhere for my living room and I'm still glad I have this. The others just live in the kitchen and on one or two sofas or where they jump off the sofa. It's like ' hopscotch' bit needs must. After the initial Ruggable rug I then bought another 'topper' (you buy the base with your first rug then can chop and change toppers if you decide to buy more) for when one is being washed.

I then found washable rugs in .. Dunelm.
( only had black and grey 2 years ago) - but was fine for my neutral decorated home. Rubber / non-slip backed, wash well.

Both the above have been a lifesaver for our house. I now have about 6 from Dunelm and 2 from Ruggable. Expensive outlay but once you have them you just shove them in the wash and they lose the dog smell instantly.

www.dunelm.com/category/rugs/all-rugs?product-type=washable-rugs

ruggable.co.uk/pages/how-it-works

Good luck 🤞