Indoor pets are a way of life. In fact, my son has a 5 pound Chihuahua he simply adores. But he can’t be there 24-hours a day to ensure “Tiny” doesn’t have an accident. So we too have to deal with the occasional dog urine or cat urine accident. On a professional level, I get calls everyday in my carpet cleaning Las Cruces business asking for help with pet urine odor issues.
Most calls involve asking for help with pet urine odor removal from carpet and then there are more urgent calls: Pet Urine Removal from Persian Wool Rugs.
Removing Urine Odors is especially difficult on hand woven area rugs. This is because the odor problem is not on the face yarns, but instead soaked into the warp and weft yarns that make up the rugs tightly woven backing. With the right tools and specialized training, urine odors can be treated and completely eliminated.
Embarassing Odors from pet urine in wool rugs can be fixed if the piece is quickly and properly treated. If the urine is not properly treated (or worse, treated with solutions designed to clean wall-to-wall carpet) there can be permanent staining, color loss, fiber damage, and more!
Here is a great article written by Lisa Wagner, “The Rug Chick”, that has a great article that provides answers to the question: Pet Accidents Happen. Now What?