You may not be able to train your animal to obey your rules, but the rules below are for you, not your pet!
1. Areas Restricted for Your Pet
The very first step I would suggest is to know which part of the house your pet can use and which would be the restricted one!
2. Bedding
Bring a nice bed for your pet and restrict your pet to its own bed and don’t even for short time or once allow him to be in your bed. The bed of your pet may not be visually appealing but should be easy to handle and clean. If not cleaned regularly, it might lead to bringing in mites, ticks. Regularly clean the bedding area of your pet and spray disinfectants.
3. Regular Grooming
Grooming is important for pets too. Give them a shower on regular basis, brush their hair. Nowadays, there are grooming parlors for pets where if you can afford it, you can send and get the grooming done, in case you are undergoing a time crunch.
4. Vets Visits/Medicines
Give regular injections and medicines (prescribed by the doctor) or regular visits to the vet plays a major role in keeping pests, ticks away ensuring the good health of your pet, your family, and the cleanliness/hygiene of the house.
5. Feeding your Pet
Feeding your pets is one important part of how you can keep your house clean. Firstly, avoid feeding your pet within the house, near the bed, on carpets, and likewise. Get your carpets serviced and cleaned from a reputed agency like Zerorez Carpet Cleaning St. Augustine so that they are clean and safe. If you have an outer room or some space that you can use as the area to feed your pet with a sink to wash the dishes, spoons, knife, and other utensils, it’s a wise idea to use that area. Store your pet’s food unreachable for it, Wash their dishes separately and not where your dishes are cleaned. Using a large tray beneath the food and water bowl of your pet is a wise idea (in case it spills out).
6. Pet Hair
You have to agree with me on the fact that the fur/hair of your pet is one thing that you can’t easily get rid of from the carpet, floor, corner, furniture, and other areas. If there is someone who is asthmatic or prone to allergies, your vacuum cleaner will ensure that the microscopic allergens are sucked up and the house is clean. While on housecleaning session, go about lifting the furniture or moving it from the place to remove your pet hair/fur from behind.
Clothes and home furnishings should be taken good care of. The hair of your pet sticks to clothes and other home furnishings like curtains, bedsheets, and other things.
As mentioned above, grooming pets is important to minimize airborne skin particles that lead to allergies.
7. Exercise Routine and Spending Quality Time
Ensure you take out exercise time for your pet and spend quality time together. When your dog gets bored, it will get him to scratching and chewing various things at home.
8. No Shit Inside
One of my friends from the very beginning made it a habit of taking his pet outlet it freshen up and pee. It was a bit bugging initially but the time spend and hassle faced that time proved fruitful in the long run as in now his pet doesn’t at any cost pee or shit inside the home and sits at the door asking to be taken out if it feels the pressure. Sounds good huh!
9. Use Air Purifiers
There are many air purifiers made especially for pet owners. These purifiers help in trapping pet hair and bad odors from your home. With these, you can reduce allergens and remove that stinky dog smell.
10. Remove Bad Odour/Stains
It is of vital importance to clean and deodorize stool or urine stains in case your pet does it inside. Eventually, such stains fade away but the germs remain and that causes health issues. There are lot many of them available in the market but if you wish to use homemade ones you can do so. You can make the following mixtures and use the same to remove the bad odor or stains from your home.
- Homemade products like vinegar and baking soda spray can help you remove almost every type of stain from any surface. The blend of white vinegar in water with four spoons of baking soda can help you prepare a solution and keep it in a spray bottle and clean.
- If you see some sort of stain, cover it with a cloth and sprinkle a baking powder over it, mix half a cup of hydrogen peroxide and one tablespoon of dish-washing liquid and pour it over the cloth. You can leave this for 15 to 20 minutes, scrub the stain slowly, and later with a vacuum cleaner remove the stain completely.
- Take seven tablespoons of brown sugar in one and a half cups of lemon and orange peels with one liter of water. Fill this mixture in a clear container to clean the floor.
To sum up, pets are human beings’ best friends and if you own one or wish to do so all you got to be sure of is to make some simple rules and follow the same. Train your pet in a way that will cut down on your workload. Pets are as difficult to handle as children. Despite all the rules and restrictions you imply sometimes you can let go of things and enjoy the little moments that are the memories you are creating for your future. Enjoy with your pets, spend quality time with them and when needed you can any day turn strict!
