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Our dog is 10.5 and he was recently sick. The meds caused him to pee a lot. He is better now but we are still cleaning up pee everyday. A diaper doesn’t work, he just chews pee pads....we now keep him confined to the bedroom during the week when we are at work so the messes are confined to one room and the rest of the house is decent for company....are bedroom carpet is ruined though and smells. I have a good cleaning spray that I use everyday but the carpet is so saturated with pee spots and discoloration is embedded in the carpet. I don’t want to call in industrial carpet cleaners or recarpet until he goes....any temp suggestions on a good cleaner and also ways to stop him from peeing?
We can’t keep him in the kitchen either since the floor is hardwood and could ruin from the pee.
You can get carpet shampoo designed for use with pets, it has enzymes to help stabilize. Sadly though you're going to lose the carpet and carpet pad. As the urine has without a doubt gone through to the subflooring make sure to use Kilz over the sub floor before placing new flooring.
What has your vet said about the potential pro-longed side effect?
Why doesn't a diaper work? Have you tried belly bands if he is a male? A friend has a similar problem with her 16-year-old dog and she uses a belly band with a maxi pad inside it. That works really well but makes him stink; she has to bathe him every other day. Your carpet and padding (and possibly the subfloor) are done. You will just have to plan on replacing all of that. If it soaked through to the subfloor, you'll need to replace that because the next dog will be able to smell that, even through new carpet and padding and that might make house training a challenge.
i used to put down a shower curtain and cover it with an old comforter. Actually had several old comforters and would rotate-one one the floor, one in the laundry and one ready to go down. Jessie dog would piddle on the comforter.
Had a few piddle puddles to clean when I got home but it saved the rug.
We can’t keep him in the kitchen either since the floor is hardwood and could ruin from the pee.
What about gating off a bathroom? Utility or laundry room? Get some large absorbent entry floor mats for the smaller space, rotate them out and hose them off? Given the expense you are facing now and in future for that ruined carpet, might be easier, cheaper, and more pleasant for everyone to hire someone to let him out a couple of times a day.
No "spray" is going to completely get rid of the urine. At least a good enzyme cleaner (Nature's Miracle etc) will help with the surface odor/stain.
This is one main reason I'd never put hardwoods in a kitchen. Too much going on in there that can ruin it, too much fuss over it all the time.
Pee can Rot the Sub floor.... And you don't know whats under the carpet. My son rented to a friend whose cats killed the carpet....under the carpet was Hardwood floors! What a mess redoing that!
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