Incontinent Dogs

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Naama wrote, about the epileptic dog's favorite couch:

> Oh, the stench! It takes hours to clean it up, soaking a large 
> portion of the sofa in soapy water and sponging it up. 

Oh, the stench indeed!  My dog has a favorite sofa as well.
(It's *her* sofa now.  We've ceded it to her.  It seemed too
cruel to try to make her sleep on something else after a 
lifetime of sleeping on this particular sofa, and it was
sort of old and beat-up and dog-haired anyway, so now it's 
hers -- and hers alone.  When she goes, that sofa's going 
with her.)  So believe me: I *know* what you're talking about.  
You have my deepest sympathies.

You probably know this already, but baking soda can really
help with that problem.  If you dump a big heaping pile of 
baking soda on the, er, wet spot first, give it a while to 
soak, and then vacuum it all up before you start with the 
soap-and-water treatment, the baking soda absorbs a lot of 
the odor and can keep it from permeating the rest of the
cushion.  It's worked okay for us, at any rate.

Sorry if this topic grosses people out, BTW, but cleaning
up after the dog really has become rather a large part of
my life lately, so it's nice to, um, share.


-- Elkins, pleased that her cats, at least, require no such care.