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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, dog lovers, Welcome to Doctor Kat Gone to the Dogs.
I'm your host, doctor Katherine prim and I'm a small
animal veterinarian and dog lover and I like to share
the things that I find out about how to make
pets lives happy and healthy. And today I'm going to
make your life a little happier and healthier because I
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have Stephanie Richardson with me. She is the co founder
of Moxie Maids, which is a cleaning service, and she
wanted to talk with us today about ways to keep
your home clean when you have dogs in it. So
we'll be right back with Stephanie after these messages.
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Welcome back to Doctor Cat Gone to the Dogs on
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Speaker 4 (01:56):
So Stephanie Richardson is with me here today. Hi Stephanie, Hi,
thanks for having me. How are you good?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I'd like to hear a little bit about who
you are and how you ended up here with us.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Sure, So, like she said, I am. My name is
Stephie Richardson, and I am the owner of a cleaning
service in Atlanta, Georgia called the Marxting Mates. And not
only am I the owner of a cleaning service, but
I also have a dog myself, So I am a
dog lover. My dog is a Maltese and a poodle mix.
He's a little malty poo. His name is Donovan Well.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So, obviously you are acutely aware of the challenges of
keeping home clean with the dogs. Added, I don't know,
added entries into life. And so I think that you
have some tips for us about how to handle some
of the special challenges. So let's hear what she has
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to say about keeping a clean house with a dog.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Sure, So, I know from my dog he goes outside
pretty often. I'm sure a lot of other dog owners
have the same thing. So I'd like to keep a
towel near the door, especially if it's raining outside or
he could have gotten into some mud. Keep a fresh
towel near the door so that way you can wipe
up its palls or anything that's on its furth so
that way they don't track that throughout the house.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's actually a good tip for medical reasons as well,
because so many of our dogs suffer from inhalent allergies.
So when they go outside to go body and they
walk through grass, for example, they might have pollens or
molds or dust on their feet. So that's actually advice
that I give my clients to teach their dog to
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come right in the door and sit and wait for
their paths to be wiped off. So that's great advice.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah. And my next advice that I have kind of
goal with, kind of hand in hand with that is
to make sure you're keeping your dogs clean. Don't skip
out on bath time. I know sometimes it can be busy,
busy professionals were working, but you really want to make sure,
like you were saying, you know your dog are going outside.
You never know what can be captured in their skin fur,
So you definitely want to make sure you keep your
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dog clean because again, you just don't want to have
any outside elements just tracking through the inside of your house.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So they say that you can bathe a dog up
to once a week with shampoos and if you have
kind of an in between, you can even wipe or
them off. So that's a great tip. So what about
maybe the dog hair. Do you have any tips to
help the dress shedding.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I would definitely say brush them often. That helps you
anytime if there's any fur, you can kind of capture
that in the brush as opposed to it kind of
going around your house and your carpet and on your baseboards.
We see that a lot with dog owners. They have
when we come in their house, their carpets and their
baseboards they're full of dog fur. So I would definitely
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say this, brush them as often as you can to
help eliminate that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So do you recommend brushing outside or brushing them in
a certain place that you can manage that hair.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yeah, I would definitely say that too, if you could
have that's another tip too. If you can have a
lot of your maintenance of the dog and a lot
of your dog toys in one specific area, so it
can kind of be self managed. So if you can
brush them in a certain area, if you have their
beds in a certain area, if you have your toys
in a certain area, all of that hopefully can be
contained to one room as opposed that kind of like
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just spreading all throughout the house.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I saw a cool article online about how a
lot of new houses are having dedicated dog.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Baths built in. That's so cool. I wish I could
have that.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But yeah, so a separate room for everything to help
manage the just the location of all the dog here,
that's that's a great tip.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
What else have you got for us?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
So carpet, So a lot of the newer homes that
I'm seeing, they are actually just have a lot of
hardwood floors. But some people love their carpet and that's
not a problem. But we have to realize that carpet
does absorb a lot of odor and you know, pet
have accident in the house, that order can get caught
and trapped inside the carpet. So I would say, if
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you can, you know, take out as much carpet as
you can from the house. Or just have very few
around the house just to make sure that there's no
trap stains or in the house that you are just
unaware of.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So, if you do have carpet, what do you recommend
for maintaining it or how often the care of it?
Can you give us some tips on that?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Sure, I would definitely say you want to vacuum these
once a week to that's really for pet hairs and
for dog hair, and also too you want to have
some people have like carpet cleaners come out every few
months just to give their carpet an overall carpet clean
because they have special enzymes. And there are some things
you can do on your own. I have some special
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hacks that I'll share towards the end that if you
want to kind of do this on your own, at
your own free will, at your own time, I have
some information to share that with your audience as well.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Lovedy tips. So that's great. So what else do you
have in your tips?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Sure? What's saying is keep is much washable fabrics in
the house as possible, and I mean everything right, So
like your your curtains, your throw rugs, your pillows, anything
that you kind of have in the house that your
that your dog can get access to before you're in buses, right,
So you want to make sure that you can throw
those things in the wash and that the fabric will
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still look nice and not kind of worn down after
a while. So definitely you're going out read those labels
to see if they're washable, and that will really help
keep your house clean and it'll be easy easier on
the owner of the dog owner as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So I see we board dogs as well at my
animal hospital, and a lot of people want to bring
their their big orthopedic dog bed. And when we're in
a kennel environment where there are lots of dogs, sometimes
dogs don't act like themselves. They might want to mark
their bed as they and so they'll urinate on it.
And the big, big fluffy ones we can't wash. So
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I think that is an awesome tip. Read the labels,
make sure the cover can come off and go in
your washing machine, because that's an expensive bed to have
serve as a source of odor and end up getting
thrown away.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So that is a really good tip.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
So I would love to share that what I was
talking about before the hacks that I was talking about
that you're listeners maybe able to use.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, yeah, let's let's have them.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Okay, perfect. So one of these both can be found
on Amazon thereby dog On d O G G O
n E. Dog On products, and one is a UVI
flash light and pet urine detector. So this is what
I was talking about. If you guys have carpet and
not just carpet is actually so if you watch like
SVU and they're like on a crime scene, they turn
off the lights and they can see like there's like
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blood or anything like that, this kind of works the
same way with dog urine and even pet urine around
the house. So you it's the UV flashlight and pet
you and detector. So it's a black light and it
finds hat and dog stains on the carpet, hardwork, floors,
or even on walls. So if you have so specifically
in a carpet, if you find it in a carpet,
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you can use something to have enzymes in it. And
I'll talk about another product another Heck that I would recommend,
and you can use that to find the stain and
eliminate the stain in between. If you have like a
professional carpet cleaner come out to your house.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So would you say that that there might be sources
of odor that you just can't see, that you can
kind of smell.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Is that is that what I'm understanding?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yes, And a lot of times yes, there's a lot
of times that that's exactly right. So a lot of
times when we have our capper clean to come out,
our clients say, oh, well, you know, we don't have
any you know, stains or anything in the carpet, but
our copper cleaner they're able to find it. But sometimes
the owner they can't find it, or sometimes they get
like you, you become like nose blind that if there
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like a smell could be there, but because you're so
used to it, you can no longer smell it. But
other people can smell it as to who they come
into your house. So this is a great way to
actually show you that something is there and then you
can eliminate it. Well.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Of course I like to throw in the medicine, but
if there is a spot that has been previously used,
then your dog might be more apps to continue using
that spot, and it would damage the pad under your
carpet and create odors and a source of just germs
that you want to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So that's great advice, Stephanie. What else have you got?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
So and the other one to kind of coincide with
that is the pet Urine and Stain Order Enzymatic Concentrate,
also by a dog on pet products again can be
found on Amazon and again, so once you find the stains,
you can use this product. It's to concentrate, so you
mix it with water and really want to make sure
that anything that you has enzymes in it, and that's
what's really going to break down the order and the stains.
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So once you find the source of this, you find
the stain, go ahead and use that and spot treat that.
And then again this could be used in between the
time that you may have like a professional come out
to do your whole carpet.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
How often do you have to use the product to
find the stains and how and do you clean just
whenever you find one?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Yeah, I would say, you know, I would definitely use
it probably. I would say if used to the black light,
I would try like maybe once a week. Could you
just never know when you know, when you're not home,
you don't know what's going on, So maybe things that
you're just unaware of, So I would say go around
the house maybe like once a week to try to
see if there's anything in your carpets, and then if
you find something, attack it right.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Then that's really really good advice because yeah, the nose
blind thing, and then when somebody comes over to your
house they think.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Ooh, we don't want that. None of us want that.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah, happens all the time, all the time. We see
we're like, you know, we have a dog, but nobody
really knows. And Susie walking into the house, We're like,
h oh, this customer is totally nose bline.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
There's definitely a dog or two.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Or forty right in here exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Okay, Well, that is really really good advice.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So I know that all of my dog loving listeners
got a lot of useful information from our visit with
Stephanie today, and thank you for coming on.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
There are no problems to sell sign well.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And I'd like to thank all my listeners for always
listening and being faithful to doctor Kat Gone to the
Dogs on Pet Life Radio, and as always, my producer
Mark Winter.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Couldn't do it without him.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So everybody go out and raise the rough.
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