If I could highlight one helpful thing that would make your life better it would be this: sunscreen in your twenties and washing your dog’s toys once a week! As I write this post I’ve just had a guest soil their crate and another dog dragged their tail and toys through pee and something else unmentionable happened upstairs. This is the reality of hosting doggos on the regular and I'm about to clean this whole house with the vengeance of a woman scorned! While the urge to just mop every surface with straight bleach is very strong, it’s about as effective as burning your house down when you see a spider. Temporary problems do not need permanent solutions. Also, bleach fumes are toxic.
We are OBSESSED with cleanliness over here at the Bed and BARKfest but these are good policies for every dog family to help keep your pups healthy and happy!
With so many extra paws around, our cleaning routines may be a bit more frequent at the Bed and BARKfest, and so we also need cleaners that are going to clean/sanitize AND simultaneously not be lowkey causing more harm than good to my sweet doggy guests who never did anything to anyone but love with their whole hearts! Bonus point if it’s also eco-friendly. So….Haaaaave you heard about Force of Nature?!
Born of the marriage of salt, water, and vinegar, this product claims to kill 99.9% of the germs on the EPA’s most wanted list (Looking at you, Norovirus, Covid-19, Monkeypox…among others). Of course you want it to be good at cleaning and deoderizing as well, which per their testing results also works like a charm! If i’m going to the trouble of cleaning…I want it to look and smell CLEAN and not like I just sprayed a bunch of chemicals into the air and walked away, like an absolute psychopath!
Plus, strong chemical scents like bleach are really hard on dog’s sensitive noses and they REALLY don’t need need that on their paws either! Yes, dogs will be walking on the floors I just mopped. It’s inevitable. If you would recoil in horror if the dog licked what you just mopped with, you should probably not let them walk on it! So, I’m leaning heavily on force of nature to get that deep to the roots clean that doesn’t have any harmful side effects. We wash EVERY surface with it, including spraying our chew toys with it because they can go right back to chewing on it when we’re done (we wipe them down with a norwex cloth first). For cloth toys, we usually throw them in a garment bag with the bedding in the wash.
Right now Force of Nature is having their labor day sale which means 40% off their best-selling products and if you use our link you can get an additional $5 off (and we can buy more for our house…because we use this stuff like toilet paper during the pandemic!)
