We love our pets and love them as if they were members of our family. Who am I kidding, they are family. When it comes to cleaning your home, pets can be a distraction and add unique problems that non-pet owners don’t have to deal with. We’ll delve into pet issues and how to best take care of them when you clean your house.
Clean Your Filters Again and Again
One the biggest problems with pets is they shed…everywhere. If you have multiple pets then you likely own nothing without hair on it. Anyone that has tried to do laundry while owning multiple cats sees cat hair every time the clean the lint traps. It’s going to be the same for every filter you have in the home. Your furnace and AC filters should be cleaned more frequently than suggested. Your vacuums HEPA filter needs to be cleaned and expect more than the occasional hair clog in the vacuum cleaner. It’s a good idea to make cleaning home filters a task for every time you clean.
Scratched and Chewed Up Furniture
Cats love to claw things. When there is nothing else, they’ll claw your furniture, doorways and anything else they can. Dogs, especially puppies, love chewing on chair legs and arms. They can shred fabric, take paint off and leave wood shavings all over the floor. There’s no way to stop them from doing this because it’s something they need to do, and is ingrained into their natural behavior. What you can do is deflect their needs to proper areas. Cat trees are a place where they can rest and sharpen their clothes on fabric designed to not shred. Dogs need chew toys that keep them busy instead of eating chair legs.
Then There are the Messes
When people think about animal messes, they think about the accidents that happen on the floors. We’ve talked about that before in other articles, I mean the actual messes our beloved pets make. They knock things over running around the house and sometimes you swear your cat does it just to be a jerk. Owning a pet is a lot like taking care of a small child, you have to “baby proof” your house.
Anything that you want to keep safe needs to be up where the animals can’t get them (in the case of cats, that’s nowhere) or placed on the ground, preferably in a carpeted area, so if it does fall off there is a low likelihood of breaking. Also, don’t keep dishes out very long or else you risk them being knocked to the floor. The last thing you want is grape juice on the carpet or spaghetti in the floor because your pet decided it was hungry or thirsty.
If you’re tired of cleaning with your pets, then contact IV Clean Team today and get a free quote.
