Dogs + Lots of Rain + Lots of Dirt [mud] = Huge Mess!
It rained a lot today - I mean a LOT - and when you live in the desert, where there is mostly just dirt around you, in this type of situation you end up with a lot of mud...
Thank goodness we have concrete floors!
This particularly sucked because this rain was supposed to be snow, that is what the forecasted last week. No snow, just mud.
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Thank goodness we have concrete floors!
This particularly sucked because this rain was supposed to be snow, that is what the forecasted last week. No snow, just mud.
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Be Glad you don't have carpet
Do you and Jen get to sit on the couch? I remember a pic where Jen was on the floor and Hilo was on the couch begging for food, but I don't remember too many pix of you sitting on the couch, lol.
To think I was appalled at what I got out of the vacuum this morning! You've got me beat by a factor of 3!
Usually this doesn't happen because the rain is short and we can keep the dogs in till it dries [which is pretty fast here], but this time it started pouring Friday night and poured all day yesterday and into the night. So at some point we had to let the dogs out to use the bathroom. All that mud was from about 30 minutes of being out side - not digging or playing... they just went out and used the bathroom and came right back in.
Our technique for cleaning is to sweep up all the big chunks, then vacuum, then mop. It sux.
Yes, we do use the couches, but not when they are covered in mud. The couches are super easy to clean tho. Jen spends about half her time out there sitting on the couch knitting or spinning. I'm always in the office, I rarely sit on the couch, but that is because I work 24/7.
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Look at the first pic, at the side of the couch... How does that happen? They get dirt everywhere! lol.
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We actually just [on Thursday and Friday] had some fence added to our yard to make a smaller area where we can put gravel down. Our hope is that we can keep the dogs confined to the smaller area, and on gravel, during these types of rain storms. We didn't have time [or the $] to have the gravel delivered yet.
Here are some pics...
*See all the dirt in the pic? That's all mud now.
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Wow....it looks like you need a footbath/wash trough since so much dirt gets clumped in between the toes of the pups. There is a company by the name of Paxton that makes them.
We used those for cows/livestock with a small ramp area for the barn area. My husband set up something similar for the dobermans in/outside our last house. Before any dogs were let in they were walked through the trough and paws gently hosed (if they got too mud messy or they rolled in horse poop or whatever). We had a small holding area by the door, basically a small fenced yard for the dogs. I dried everyone off with towels in a mud room/saddle room that had a door separating from the main house.
Hope this gives you some ideas. I know cleaning mud up with a broom is not good if you have allergies. The silica and other stuff can really give asthma suffers a problem..A wet mop is much better after a vac. A whole house vacc works great for getting the main stuff up before mop and the vac canister can be set up outside if covered from the elements.
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Also, I think one of your dogs would want to destroy the Roomba, one or more would be terrified, and the roomba would only last a month before it crapped out because of all of the hair.
I was getting interested in the Roomba...but if it can't handle hair well, not so much.