We all love our pets. If our loved ones greeted us at the door like our pets do, there would be a lot fewer divorces! Pets give us “unconditional love”.
About 50% of Canadian households have pets. Most households choose dogs or cats as they provide the best companionship and that “unconditional love” that we enjoy in our lives. Those little (and sometime big) guys have accidents from time to time. Pet owners forgive the accidents and clean up willingly after their pets. Rarely though do we clean deep enough to thoroughly remove all the mess.
Pets are one of the biggest challenges a Real Estate Agent has to deal with when listing and selling a house. An odour problem can turn off buyers at the door. Pets and their odours can often prevent a sale or result in a reduction of the asking price.
Cats are usually inside pets that are clean and well trained to use the litter box but they are animals who instinctively respond to the home environment in many different ways. Cat urine is highly concentrated and the worst for smell. Cats will urinate for many different reasons:
1) at the front door to mark their territory from outside
2) to mark a certain room as theirs
3) in response to stress (such as moving, new baby, new pet)
4) in a new surrounding (visiting, ride in car, moving)
5) when sick or recovering from an illness or on medication
Male dogs usually go in corners, near furniture or walls, females tend to use the centre of the room. If a dog has an accident you’ll find it, whereas cat’s urine can go unnoticed until odour is noticed.
Cats tend to eat more meat than dogs so feline urea is higher than canine for the same volume. Cats have a much smaller bladder than dogs and therefore the urine is more potent.
To remove these odours completely to make your house appealing to more potential buyers takes an experienced and knowledgeable professional.
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