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Cover the spot with the remains of a dead dog.

Train the dog. Buy new carpet.

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Have you tried an enzymatic cleaner? It worked quite well when our dog was a pup

Mostly baking soda and water, but didn’t work. Tried a few options of the listing on google, but without success. That’s why I’m looking for a more personal recommendation that worked.

I didn’t! Will look into it. Thank you for your help!

Baking soda and vinegar not water

I second this. Current owner of 2 dogs and it works well on all types of accidents. You just need to get all the big stuff up first. And if you need to break out the big guns, Bissell make a small carpet cleaner for pets that does wonders.

First, soap and lukewarm water, scrub the stain. Lift up the stain by patting it dry with a clean rag. Or, use a carpet cleaner. Use vinegar in the rinse-water if your carpet wont stain from that - it will help neutralize the urine/ammonia/soap. Again, lift up using clean rags (or a carpet cleaner).

Bile soap or lemon soap can help on those hard-to-get-out stains. Ask people with young children where they get theirs (it is a fair bet they deal with poo and other stains on the regular).

Secondly, use enzyme-cleaner. Some carpet-cleaner-products claim to have those enzymes, but I have found products such as "urine off" are much much more effective. Remember to treat at least double the area, because urine will spread a lot and you need this product to cover at least the same area. This will take care of any lingering smells - even to the point where the dog wont notice the smell.

For about 10+ years I've been cleaning a dog-school where puppies may have accidents, using a black-light to make sure I've gotten it all (and a dog to double-check and supervise). If it glows in UVA-light, it needs more cleaning. If the dog says so, it needs more cleaning. Repeat procedure.

This works. Some nurses found it hysterically funny that our cleaning-routine meant our place was cleaner than a hospital room.

Yeah, my dog was sick and had diarrhea, so it was very watery and therefore there wasn’t very much of big stuff and the fiber of the burlap soaked it up (happened when we were sleeping so couldn’t clean it up immediately). I tried baking soda mixed with water and vinegar, but it’s still very hard to get it out. I’ll look into Bissell as well. Thank you!

Used vinegar as well, forget to mention it - my bad. But wasn’t successful, unfortunately.

Thank you for taking the time to write this! I used soap, lukewarm water, and also baking soda and vinegar, but without success. The fiber in the burlap really soaked up the poo (my dog was sick and had diarrhea), so it’s a tough one to clean. I’ll look into the bile soap and enzyme-cleaner, hopefully that’ll do (even though it dried up now). I bet it will, considered you’ve probably dealt with more tenacious stains, haha :-). Appreciate the help!

When dealing with pet stains, you need to use an enzymatic cleaner. Soak the stain with the cleaner and let it sit a while so the enzymes can break down the source of the odor.

Thank you!

That's so crazy. Vinegar and baking soda neutralize odors. Remove all kinds of stains. It's literally the go to. Have you tried like laundry stain remover?

There's a spray called "zero odor" that's worth its weight in gold. Remove the offending matter and give it a spray and the smell will go away. I find it better than enzymatic sprays. Bed bath and beyond used to sell it.

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Thank you!

Seriously, that stuff works and it doesn't smell at all. It's miracle juice.