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Spring Cleaning: Removing a Winter Season's Worth of Dog Smells
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items When winter comes to a close I know that it is time to open the curtains, get some fresh air in the house, and do a deep clean. If you have dogs, there are hidden messes that are causing your house to smell faintly of dog butt. These are my spring ri...
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Mud and Paw Print Patrol
Eliminating Dog Odors
Spring Reset and Managing Dog Hair
Making Cleaning Fun
Mud and Paw Print Patrol
Mud season is serious business. We have some big dogs with big desires to play and dig. Not to mention a whole season of poop in our yard. Here's what we are using to get back on track and mitigate mud being tracked into our home.
Our dogs lick the floor all the time for reasons we will never understand. For this reason we use a chemical free cleaning option to maintain our floors. Super effective against the germs/smells associated with mud and “poop foot.”
Chemical Free Cleaning at Its Finest.
Since these can go right in the wash, we like having extra mop heads just in case there is a mid-week need to mop. Save yourself the money and get these off-brand ones. We have been using them for 2 years and they work jsut as well as the Bissel ones...
Extra Mop Heads for the Bissel Steam Cleaner
We love these shammy mats because they come in a variety of sizes to fit your specific needs. With big dogs, a tiny little welcome mat size isn't going to do it. We use the runner because our dogs bee-line it through our mudroom to the main house. Th...
Stop Mud From Entering the Home Altogether
It's not just mud out there…. And when your dogs track in brown you just never know what it could be. So, we keep a can outside all year around to pick up their mess and have a designated spot for it that is closer than our trash bins. The 6 gallon b...
The Durable Poop Can We Have Used for Years
Our dog's feet are just too big or their legs are too short to use the trendy paw wash cups. We use collapsable buckets instead. One for a first pass on muddy feet and some soap, and a second bucket to rinse off the soap and do a second pass. I love ...
Our Dog Paw Washing Station Fit for Giant Breeds and Corgis
Before we got our steam cleaner we used a spin mop exclusively. This spin mop is our favorite because it separates the dirty water from the clean water. It also doesn't take up a tremendous amount of room in our cleaning closet!
The Spin Mop That Doesn't Reuse Dirty Water
Eliminating Dog Odors
Dog odors settle onto more than just the dog. Their beds, their toys, your furniture, your blankets. It's all contributing to that signature scent of dog butt. Here's how we neutralize it.
With over 300 pounds of dog in our house you can imagine that hair, odor, and allergens tend to build up. We keep these air purifiers in our bedroom, and living room as these are the most high dog traffic zones in our house. These things are amazing ...
Keeping High Dog Traffic Rooms Fresh
We like to avoid using harsh chemicals in our home when possible, for the sake of our dog's extra sensitives noses. This all-purpose cleaner gives us that fresh lemon scent, without the harsh chemicals. We use this cleaner for just about everything!
Natural Cleaners That Smell Fresh
We work hard to prevent dog smells in our home which is TOUGH! One thing this article does not mention is cleaning your dog's toys. Plush toys get a very distinct smell to them. Replace or wash them every one in a while in addition to non-toxic smell...
14 Ways To Get Rid Of The Dog Smell In Your House Once And For All
Cleaning up dog odor sometimes means getting it at the source. Bathing your dog more than once a month can dry out their skin! So we use this spray to help neutralize smells between grooms/baths. King Klean has been an excellent brand to use.
Deodorizing Spray For Between Baths
We use this spray every day on our own bed sheets to make sure everything still smells fresh after 3 dogs sleeping on it all night/day. It's great for those dog beds that are cute, but more difficult to clean. This spray is also great to refresh the ...
The Pet Deodorizer We Live By
We use vinegar for a few reasons. Our blankets can hold onto dog smells so we use this in lieu of fabric softener. And I also have a bottle with 50/50 water and vinegar that I used to clean our faucets and anywhere with water. This gets rid of hard w...
Laundry Odor Remover & Natural Disinfectant
Pura ensures that all of their scents are pet and kid safe. Something we are super mindful of when choosing air fresheners for our home and our dog transporting vehicle. You can schedule when the diffuser turns on, and the strength of the scent, to e...
Pura: The Pet Safe Diffusers We Trust
Spring Reset and Managing Dog Hair
If you have a dog with an undercoat, you're entering shedding season. This is the perfect season to deep clean the nooks and crannies, and focus on preventing more dog hair from getting to your floors.
It's so easy to forget about the dog hair you don't see. This stuff contributes to odor, allergies, and so much more. Every spring we are checking these spots to give them a good clean!
The Messes You’ve Been Missing: 10 Hidden Places to Check for Dog Hair, Dirt and Stains
For anyone that just does not know where to start, this checklist will give you plenty of ideas of how to tackle spring cleaning!
The Ultimate Spring Cleaning Checklist to Elevate Your Home's Freshness
Dog hair is just naturally floaty and gets entangled in carpet. This broom helps us collect dog hair along walls, under the bed, and in our carpets in a way that no vacuum or regular broom can. It collects the hair without creating the breeze that ju...
A Dog Hair Broom for Both Carpet And Hard Floors
Between my own hair and the dog hair, we are a vacuums worst nightmare. This is the only vacuum I've used where our hair does not wrap around the roller in 60 seconds. We use this for deeper cleans once a week to keep our floors clean of hair, crumbs...
The Only Hair Wrap Proof Vacuum I've Found
We use these lint rollers to reduce the amount of hair on our comforter. We lint roll every night right before going to bed so we dont breathe in whatever dog hair was shed on the comforter during mid-day naps!
Giant Lint Roller For Furniture
Our windows, and stainless steel appliances are the canvas for our dog's creative outlets. While we clean our appliances weekly with these cloths, spring is when we focus on the windows. They leave no streaks, and power through drool of the ages.
Microfiber Cloths for Nose Art Canvases
I used to hate cleaning our baseboards until I got this little contraption. Scooting around the house with a rag was not my idea of fun. Now I can get our baseboard cleaner out and clean without crouching at all.
Baseboard Cleaner for Time-Savers
When you have dogs you don't need just a duster. You need one that picks up dog hair. This set works wonders for us and lets me get all of the cobwebs, clean the ceiling fans, and of course collect dog hair on the shelves I've neglected for the last ...
The Dusters for Dog People
Making Cleaning Fun
Cleaning doesn't have to be boring, here's some playlists I love that make cleaning more fun!
This has a great mix of new and new-ish pop songs that will get you cleaning like Mrs. Doubtfire (IYKYK)
UpBeat Pop Playlists That Get You Dancing
Honestly a good revisit to the oldies is always a good time. I use this playlist to feel like my mom is here helping me clean.
Oldies To Get You Groovin While Movin (With your Vacuum)
Having a clean house makes you feel like a girl boss. And this playlist will help remind you why you're doing this – because you're a girl boss.
Girl Bossing Your Way to a Clean House
It's hard to believe 2024 is last year, there were a lot of great songs last year. Take a moment to revisit them!
2024 Hits To Keep It Fresh
Are you looking for a pick me up? These good vibes songs will do it!
Bringing in the Good Vibes
I like to feel happy when I clean, and this playlist is one of my go-tos!
A Mood Booster Playlist Will Make Any Task more Fun!
I listen to this playlist all the time when I clean the kitchen in the evening. I feel like a tavern wench closing up shop which is just way more fun.
Ok hear me out.... For Cleaning your Kitchen.