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If you own a dog, and your home has carpet, you likely should clean your carpets regularly. When canines and carpets come together, things can get messy. However, that mess isn’t always visible to the naked eye. A dog’s paws can spread nasty organisms throughout your home. Things may happen deep within your carpet’s fibres that will eventually affect your health.
When you and your dog come in from a walk, you take off your shoes. This ensures that you don’t track contaminants from outdoors throughout your home. But what about your dog? Even if you take the time to clean your dog’s paws before letting them back inside — every time — you can’t guarantee that you remove every contaminant.
And if you take your dog to a local park frequented by other dog walkers, they may encounter dog faeces. If they then track traces of that faecal matter into your carpets, you could contract a dangerous infection, such as salmonella. Unfortunately, dog faeces also contain the eggs of intestinal worms like the dreaded tapeworm, which can thrive in the human intestine.
Did you know that homes with dogs contain more microbes than those without dogs? You can easily understand how that might be, when you consider that dogs need walks. Unfortunately, the ground outside is rife with germs and dirt. Your dog could track multiple strains of bacteria through your carpets then.
And since germs can survive for days, you might end up having quite the collection in your carpet unless you vacuum and clean it regularly.
When you and your dog come home after a long walk in the park, you bring soil and sand home too. Although the dirt on your shoes remains near your front door, the mess on your dog’s paws may end up scattered throughout your house. Dirt and sand are heavy. Therefore, though you might not notice it, it is there, buried deep among the fibres of your carpet.
In addition, if you tend to rush your vacuuming, you may miss much of the dirt and dust. The only way to suck up a build-up of dirt effectively is to vacuum slowly. If you don’t have time for that, your carpets could be chock-full of dirt.
Like soil and sand, dog dander, which contains hair and tiny skin particles, can build up in your carpets. You can’t avoid this. Like humans, dogs shed skin cells and hair every day. And although not everyone is affected, dog dander causes allergic reactions in people who suffer from sinus allergies like allergic rhinitis.
If someone in your house sneezes uncontrollably or suffers with itchy eyes and skin, your carpets could be full of dog dander.
Dogs often show their affection by licking their owners. However, dog saliva doesn’t just contain multiple harmful strains of bacteria. It is also a major cause of allergy symptoms just like those caused by pet dander. A European study confirmed this when it discovered that dog saliva contains over 12 types of allergic reaction-causing proteins.
When a dog licks itself or your carpet or drools due to hot weather, its saliva eventually dries. Whether on your carpets or on your dog’s fur, the proteins in dry dog saliva later become airborne, where they cause allergic reactions that are often more severe than those from dog dander.
If you own a dog, and you believe your carpets might harbour dirt and germs galore, you need a professional carpet cleaning service. Davali Chem-Dry uses eco-friendly products to clean your carpets and remove dirt, allergens and dust. Call us today, or fill out our online form to get a free estimate.
