How to Clean Dog Urine

At some point in the process of training your dog to eliminate outdoors, you will likely experience the carpet or floor accident. With ammonia being a primary component of dog urine, you will more than likely be struck by the smell before you’ll notice a pee stain on your floor. This means that a warm washcloth and soap won’t likely work to get the stain up. When this happens, you will invariable find different methods showing you how to clean dog urine. Not all of them will work for you. It is important to experiment until you find a method that does work and stick to that.

The process of learning how to clean dog urine is not straightforward. Different surfaces demand approaches that are appropriate. For example, stains in hardwood flooring have to be dealt with through sanding and refinishing if need be, whilst carpet stains can usually be removed by pouring a simple carpet cleaner designed for such stains. Enzyme-based sprays are good for concrete or other porous surfaces, as the liquid can absorb into the stain and eat away at it. If that doesn’t work, figuring out how to clean dog urine from a porous surface can be a challenge. Sealing the floor (and the stain as well) may be the only option in this case. And if your dog continuously seems to use one spot, it is possible that you are cleaning the stain but not the smell. In this case you can use a bacteria-based spray that will eat away even the tiniest remnants of urine and leave your carpet or other surface odor-free.

In learning how to clean dog urine, the first try isn’t always going to be the best. Some expensive sprays won’t work for you no matter how well they seem to work for others. For various reasons, some sprays don’t work on certain types of wood or carpet. The important thing is to continue to experiment until you find something that works for you.