Doggie puke

By mudlark • January 26th, 2010

I was keeping my brother’s dog Sam for a while (isn’t he cute?!) and I learned a very important thing. Dogs don’t mix well with toddlers eating corn dogs. See, the dog and the toddler isn’t the problem. The problem is the joy that comes in a toddler’s life from feeding said corn dog to the pup. What happens later? After a few hours it all comes back up. On my cream Berber carpet. Thanks Sam. Thanks toddler.

I got started on the little spots with club soda, and that worked great for those little splattery spots – you know the ones. Just a little discoloration, a little bit soiled. But then there were the piles, and I was stumped. With a toddler, a preschooler, and a kindergartner running around how’s mom supposed to clean multiple piles of doggie hurl? The club soda worked, for sure, but it would have taken me hours upon hours to soak, blot, repeat.

In steps my Aunt Gigi. “Hey there, hon. I’ll just drop you off my carpet cleaner. It’ll have you squared away in a jiffy!” That’s what I like to hear. Do you know what she brought me? A Bissell ProHeat carpet Shampooer. I sure do love my Aunt Gigi – the way she hugs me tight, spreads her lovin’ on my kids, her brownie trifle, balsamic ginger salad dressing to die for, and now this.

It took me about 40 minutes to clean up all those piles of puppy puke. There’s the big ol’ shampooing part of the machine (that I filled with an all-natural pH neutral cleaner) and there are some cute little hoses too, that does the same thing the main vacuum part does, only for small spaces. Of course, this wasn’t a small space type of job, so I didn’t get much use out of those puny little hoses. You shampoo, rinse, and then vacuum up the moisture, with or without heat. And when I was done, there was no discoloration left. None. My cream carpet was cream again!

Sam’s back home with his own family now, and yes – I learned to keep him and corn dog eating children in different rooms at meal time. And Aunt Gigi has her carpet shampooer back, but I just might want to borrow it again to get rid of the darn purple moon sand that got crushed into the living room floor…

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By Carpet Cleaning New York on February 5th, 2010 at 10:26 pm

Great job. We always recommend to our customers to just get a small wet/dry vac. A great all natural cleaner is 50/50 white vinegar and water. Just spray it on the spot and suck up the residue with the wet/dry vac. Sorry you had to clean that up. That’s pretty tough.
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