Cleaning Carpet Sucks!

I have my carpets cleaned /shampooed and stainguarded on a quarterly basis. I learned this from my Grandma. She always had nice carpets and was paranoid about it getting stained. Thankfully, I learned this valuable lesson from her about caring for carpets. If you care for them, you very rarely have to have carpet replaced unless you are looking for an updated look. Anyway, with two big dogs, I convinced Matt a long time ago to have high traffic areas stainguarded. It is well worth the extra money to do it. Why you ask? Well..I thought you would never ask. Let me give you three very good examples.

Example #1 - Dog Fight.

2 years ago, Booker & Fritz got into a fight about something really stupid. Fritz somehow got a free string from a dog rope and was chewing on it. Booker decuded he wanted said string and preceded to attack Fritz. He bit Fritz on the nose. There was blood EVERYWHERE. Down the stairway, on the walls and in the living room. It looked like a horror movie. Keep in mind, this was 3 days after we had the inside of the house painted to a light ecru color. I was horrified. I called Matt screaming, not because of all the blood but because of Fritz' nose. It was sliced down the middle. Matt took him to the vet and the vet said he had no idea how he was going fix his nose but he would figure something out. He ended up stapeling his nose and now you can't even tell. Now, back to the carpet. I used a wash rag with cold water and every single blood stain came out. I was amazed. From this point on, Matt agreed that stainguard is a miracle.

Example #2 - Dog Puke

Fritz is notorious for eating socks. The first time he did it we panicked and took him to the vet. The vet said if he still wants to eat and passes the sock no need to bring him in. About three weeks ago (in the middle of adoption chaos after we found out Maria was keeping her son) Fritz got really sick. He was very lethargic and did not want to eat anyting. We knew something was wrong. Fritz always wants to eat. He kicks his bowl around everynight at 5:30. If we are home during the day he starts kicking it around 3:30 or 4:00. Sometimes, Matt will feed him and when I get home Fritz tries to trick me into feeding him again, by kicking his bowl around. So, we knew some thing was wrong. He puked EVERYwhere. In our master bedroom, in the living room etc. It was horrible. During my first cleaning run it wasn't coming up but the second time around it all came up. You can't even tell. Fritz ended up having surgery for the first time and now has a huge scar on his belly. Does he get that it was a result for eating the sock?? No.

Example 3 - Dog looses Dew Claw
If you don't know about dew claws, they are basically the thumb claws for dogs. It is a very careful and delicate thing when cutting a dogs nails because you have to make sure that you don't cut the quick. Quick injury causes a lot of pain to an animal and results in massive bleeding.

Last night, I was filling out Christmas cards for my beloved friends and family. Matt was trying to fix a light in our track lighting in the kitchen. He walked out into the living room and saw Fritz on the couch he was bleeding ALL over the couch. I panicked thinking I needed to somehow get him to his crate so I could assess the injury. Well...that did not work. He got off the couch and ran away, ran all over the living room while I chased him. He ended up back in the living room under the coffee table. I was able to figure out that he lost his dew claw. I applied pressure to get it to stop bleeding. Matt worked on the carpet and couch. We applied flour to the wound to keep it from bleeding again and I put the poor guy in his crate so he would be more comfortable.

I walked into the living room and was overwhelmed. There were bright red blood spots all over. Matt went up to the nursery to change Kellen and I started to do the second round of blood clean up. It took over an hour to spot clean and I wasn't sure it was completely out. I decided to go to bed and see what happened overnight.

I woke up and saw a few spots that needed to be worked on a little more. At last, a brand new carpet.

Then, an hour ago the dogs started roughhousing and Fritz started bleeding...AGAIN! I got it all up, but now I am very irritated.

All this to say Stainguard works like a champ. Now that I am thinking about it though it appears that my dogs are a pain in the butt and the animal lover that I am, I LOVE THEM ANYWAY!