Cat Care: Cleaning Carpets

Video Transcript

"Properly cleaning urine from the floor can be trickier that it seems. So, I just want to demonstrate to you how much urine a cat might actually put on a floor or a carpet. So when it normally urinates, there's going to be a big puddle like that. And when that goes into a carpet, it's going to make...spread a lot farther than it might originally look. So when you see this dried up, it may look like just a little spot, or when you see the little, tiny spot on the carpet you're not going to realize that underneath it goes right through on to your floor, making a big stain here and absorbing into the flooring underneath your carpet. So you have to keep that in mind when you're cleaning. One of the things you want to do is, you want to clean with an enzymatic cleaner. That's a cleaner that has enzymes in it that are going to help to break down all of the products in the urine. So you would blot up anything that you can see, and then you'd take your enzymatic cleaner, which is a liquid often in a squirt or a spray bottle, and saturate it with the same amount of liquid that you think you got up. And then, saturate it there, and then you can blot again until it's dry. Now, same thing with the carpet, but you have to remember to use much more of the cleaner than you think you might, because you want to get through the carpet and right down on to that flooring underneath to fully get rid of the scent. If you don't get rid of the smell of the urine, the cat is more likely to go back and urinate there again."