Odors Be Gone

Puppies are always fun to have around the house; they’re playful, lovable, and adorable when they’re not yet a year old.  However, having a puppy is a lot of work, and during the first year puppies require extensive attention.  To help prepare for a puppy, you will want to purchase items like a dog crate, chew toys, dog brush, and puppy food in advance.  You might also want to consider items like lemon juice (to prevent from barking), and a pet stain remover to remove urine odor from carpet and floors.

Puppies require a lot of exercise and need to be fed up to three times a day.  If you work and are the sole caretaker for a new puppy, you might need to come home during lunch to let them out and feed them for the first several months.

Have you ever gone into someone’s house, smelled a bad odor, but didn’t tell them out of politeness? If so… next time make sure to tell them! The human nasal cavity adapts to odors, and after a short amount of time, can no longer detect a bad smell. However any guests to the house will smell it right away. Notorious bad smells that aren’t easily detected include mould from the kitchen or bathroom, pet odors, and dusty furniture.

There are a variety of cleaning and stain removal products which can get rid of a bad odor for good, but only if the person knows it’s there. When something stinks, call it out.

Anyone familiar with animal rescue knows that it isn’t just the shelters and havens that house homeless animals—there are many animal foster parents who open their homes to dogs and cats that need a little TLC.   These big-hearted people often have a house full of cats and dogs—and the messes that go along with them.

Doodoo Voodoo is a perfect solution for the multi-cat or multi-dog home.  It will remove stains and eliminate odors, deterring other animals from marking spots that were already marked previously and leaving the home smelling clean and fresh.

Anyone who watched “Friends” remembers Phoebe’s song about the smelly cat.  Pets can do a lot of stinky things that require pet odor removal, but if your dog or cat just plain stinks beyond needing a bath or a flea dip, you might want to investigate further for potential health problems.

Dogs and cats can stink if they have dental or ear problems, if they have certain skin problems, and if the hair around their rear needs cleaning and clipping.    The worst-case scenario is an infection or problem with the anal glands, in which case the your pet should see the veterinarian as soon as possible.  Both cats and dogs can also have stinky breath from respiratory infections, and occasionally in older pets, kidney or liver disease can affect the animal’s breath.  A dental issue can actually cause a heart murmur in a cat or dog, but once dental problems have been resolved, the heart murmur will often disappear as well.

 About The Founders – Eric and Julie Smith – Now living in Indianapolis, IN

We’ve been heavily involved in animal charity work for more than two decades and are the founders of two federally licensed animal charities.  We founded, funded and operated a nonprofit, feline-only, low-cost spay/neuter clinic in the neediest section of our city.  We’ve lectured on feral cat management and early-age spay/neuter at a conference at a respected veterinary school.  We’ve worked closely with city government officials to change animal-related laws in our city [Indianapolis].  We’ve coordinated and conducted puppy-mill raids and rescue operations with law enforcement and the media.  We’ve rescued and adopted into lifelong homes many hundreds of animals over the last quarter century.  As you can imagine, as far as animal smells go, we’ve had more exposure to them than most people ever will.  We have extensive experience with professional carpet cleaning equipment and methodology, and have helped people save their “trashed” homes and carpet.  Our #1 goal with DooDoo Voodoo:  save animals’ lives. Read the rest of this entry »

  WHY CATS FAIL TO USE THE LITTER BOX by Eric Smith, FounderFour On The Floor Pet Products, Inc. We’re not veterinarians, nor are we certified animal behaviorists. That said, though, we’ve certainly fought our way through most of the common cat behavior issues over the last quarter century. We’ve cared for and found homes for many hundreds of animals over the years. We’ve also read extensively about litter box habits and have attended numerous conferences on cat behavior, so as they say, we have QBE (”qualified by experience”) degrees in cat litter box habits. Over the years, we’ve had our share of litter box debacles, too, and have managed to work through them in one way or another, so we hope our brief discussion here will offer you some hope about dealing with the issues you’re going through. Causes Of Poor Litter Box Behavior When a cat chooses not to go potty in the place we want him or her to—the litter box—the first thing we think is that there must be a medical cause. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on how you look at it—it has been documented that in over 90% of cats, this is not the case.  Certainly some cats do get cystitis or Feline Urological Syndrome (FUS, which is the formation of crystals or sludge, generally in the bladder, which causes irritation, bleeding and sometimes blockage of the urethra or ureter, making it difficult Read the rest of this entry »