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- Welcome to Mother Daughter Projects. I'm Steph.
And today we wanna talk about carpet cleaners for dogs.
So, first I want to identify the type of messes
that might happen with dogs.
So I'm gonna call the first one bathroom issues.
Then I'm gonna say the second one,
I'm gonna call protein spill.
I think you can figure out what that is.
And number three, I'm going to call like dirtiness,
dirty messes, so like dirty paws, things like that.
And so, I wanna identify that because
when I got my first dog Mac, three years ago,
she didn't have any bathroom issues.
Her biggest issue was every now and then
she'd have a protein spill, and that was it.
She didn't really have messy paws or anything like that.
So I got this right here, this carpet cleaner,
this is actually a battery powered carpet cleaner
made by Hoover, which were really big fans of.
It works really well, especially for things
that haven't really soaked into the carpet,
so like dirty paws or a protein spill.
This is really good for cleaning that up.
And this is really easy.
You can clean all the components really nicely on this,
and you can keep the machine clean
between cleaning up dog messes.
So this is great for that.
But then a year ago I got a second dog and she, well,
she has what we'll say, some bathroom issues,
and we're working on that.
But in the meantime, we gotta clean those up.
So most of my house is actually a hard floor,
but I do have two rooms of carpet,
and oh my goodness, that's where she chooses
to have her little issues.
So this just was not cutting it,
'cause they were too frequent.
And there was just, it was too much work for me
to try to clean those up with this machine.
So I invested in this machine right here,
and this is under $100, pretty inexpensive from Amazon.
This is actually a plugin version.
They don't make a battery powered unfortunately of this,
but this is a plug-in version.
And this worked really well,
uses heat also to dry the carpet
as it's like sucking everything up, which is nice.
But what I didn't like about this is the,
where the dirtiness goes
after it's sucked out of the carpet.
This little thing right here, you can't clean it.
So there's only one little spot here
where you can pour the dirty stuff out
and then you can pour some clean water in.
But there's really no way of getting the super open
to clean it.
And the brush area is not very easy to clean either.
You have to kind of unscrew it
and it's kind of a lot of work.
So I was not super happy with this
in being able to clean it, basically.
It worked well, but they were so frequent,
the bathroom issues with my dog were so frequent.
And because my dogs are pretty big,
they were pretty big messes.
So this was kind of annoying to clean.
Also where the cleaner goes,
you put a solution of the cleaner and then you put water in.
So if you didn't use the whole container of cleaner,
you'd have to kind of throw it out.
So, I was looking for another solution
because I was realizing
I was just having more bathroom issues
that I needed to make sure we're clean,
'cause that is the worst, is that smell in your house.
So I found this, this is again another product by Hoover,
'cause we are happy with the Hoover brand.
But I got this and this is definitely more expensive
than this version right here.
But every single component can come apart and be clean,
and that was the key for me.
This again, uses the same kind of heat technology
as the more inexpensive version.
But what's nice about this is it sucks everything up.
You also have a dedicated compartment for the cleaner
and then it mixes with the water.
So if you don't use all the cleaner,
you can just pour it back into the container
and you can keep the rest of the cleaner,
so you don't have to waste some of it, which is nice.
But I've used this a handful of times now,
and I've been really happy with it.
Actually has two brushes on it. It cleans really well.
It has some more advanced features than this one.
So you can use the cleaner,
then you can just use the dry feature.
So it's no water, just it dries.
And so I feel like this one does a really, really good job.
And I definitely like that,
you can get everything clean on it.
They do make a pet version of this.
And I did some research and it looks like the vacuum itself
is exactly the same as this one in the pet version.
But the pet version comes with some other little components
for cleaning furniture and things like that.
But I already had this,
so if I needed to clean furniture,
I could do it with this one.
My dogs don't really leave messes on furniture.
My biggest issue is with my dog, Tosh, is the carpet.
And so that's why I thought this one was all I needed.
And again, I've been really happy with it,
but I wanted to kind of share my journey
because other people might have those kinds of issues.
But I'll put links to all of these
because these are all good for different reasons
and for different kinds of messages and frequencies.
But ultimately when I move one day,
I will probably get the carpets professionally cleaned
because that is, that's the best way
of going about cleaning the carpets.
Which we actually did a video
with a professional carpet cleaner,
which I'll put a link to in the description below,
so you can kind of check out how that works.
So thanks for joining us.
If you have any questions, please let us know
in the comments.
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All right, thanks for joining. Bye.