After a pet parent returns home from being out, it’s inevitable that they’ll bring all sorts of viruses and bacteria back with them. Dogs spend most of their time indoors, making them easily exposed to viruses and bacteria and increasing their risk of infection and illness.
Therefore, Dr. E reminds pet parents: disinfecting your dog’s living environment is crucial—do it properly to safeguard your furry friend’s health!
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Dog Family Bacteria Everywhere! These Places Must Disinfect
Disinfection must be thorough.
For the ubiquitous viruses and bacteria in life, the shoveling officer must disinfect them from the following aspects to completely eliminate them:
1 day often small supplies
Water basin, food basin, toys, combs and other small items in direct contact with the dog, shoveling excrement officer can be soaked with disinfectant, disinfection at least once a week.
2 Kennels
Dog kennel is an important place for dogs to rest every day, which is closely related to the health of dogs. Shovel excrement officials should be cleaned at least once a month. The specific method is to spray disinfectant for disinfection. In addition to bacteria and mites will parasitize in the dog's nest mat inside, causing skin infection, so the dog's kennel often take to the sun.
Three dog toilets
Dog toilets are the places where bacteria and viruses are most likely to breed. Therefore, in addition to cleaning up the dog's excrement in time every day, the shoveling officer also needs to disinfect it. It needs to be cleaned and sprayed with disinfectant every 2-3 weeks.
4 Family environment
A large number of bacterial pathogens will hide in the home environment, in order to avoid dog infection, the home environment should be regularly disinfected. Dirt shoveling officer spray disinfectant, or use disinfectant mopping the floor for environmental disinfection.
5 shovel shit officer himself
After the shoveling officer goes out, clothes, shoes, hands and other places in contact with the outside world will inevitably be contaminated with various bacteria and viruses, so before caressing the dog, clean yourself up first.
Select the right disinfectant
1 choose special disinfectant for pets
Although the disinfection effect is very good, the disinfectant 84 and Welloux commonly used in the home are toxic to dogs and have a great pungent smell. It is not safe for dogs who like to lick everywhere and have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. It is more appropriate to choose a special disinfectant for pets with small smell and toxicity.
2 reasonable choice of disinfectant
(1) If the amount of household environment is large, the excrement shoveling officer can choose concentrated, diluted and large-content disinfectant, thus saving the amount of disinfectant.
(2) food pots, toys and utensils that dogs often contact need to use low-toxic disinfectant to avoid poisoning.
(3) Dog toilets, dog cages, and kennels not only need to be disinfected, but also need to choose a disinfectant with deodorization function to reduce dog excrement and taste.
Disinfection is not simple
Home environment disinfection is a big project, a little attention will affect the sterilization effect, according to the following methods to ensure the correct operation of sterilization success:
1 before the use of disinfectant to clean up hair, dander and vomit and other garbage, because the disinfectant in the clean surface to play the greatest role.
2 When using disinfectant, pay attention to the proportion of disinfectant, pour the disinfectant into the mop bucket and dilute it with water according to the correct proportion, then soak the mop and disinfect the ground with the mop.
3 after disinfection, if the ground is not dry, try not to let the dog walk on the ground, to avoid the residual disinfectant damage the dog's small foot pad.
