2 tips for cat owners who want to hire a professional cleaner
Posted on: 21 March 2019
If you have a pet cat and intend to start having your home professionally cleaned, you should bear the following advice in mind.
1. Ask the cleaner to use pet-safe cleaning chemicals
It is extremely important to ask the person who will be providing the cleaning service to use pet-safe cleaning products. The reason for this is that cats usually spend a lot of their waking hours roaming around the properties that they live in, walking along the floors, jumping on countertops and even attempting to scale bookcases and wardrobes. They will often sleep not only in their designated beds but also on windowsills and various pieces of furniture.
In between their naps and explorations, they usually devote a lot of time to cleaning themselves by licking their fur and by using their dampened paw pads to 'wash' themselves. This means that any cleaning chemicals that are applied to the aforementioned surfaces may end up on your cat's paws and fur. Then, when they start 'washing' themselves, they could ingest these chemicals. This could be problematic if the cleaning products used contain substances that are toxic to cats, such as bleach and certain types of essential oils, as the ingestion of these chemicals could make your cat very ill.
As such, you should instruct the cleaner to use products which do not contain ingredients that are harmful to cats. Additionally, you should encourage them to consult with you first before they introduce any new products into their routine when cleaning your home.
2. Show the cleaner specific areas that your cat tends to make particularly dirty
Whilst cats are one of the cleaner types of pets, they can still make a mess in certain areas. Given this, it is a good idea to show the cleaner these areas during their first visit to your home so that they understand that they need to devote a few extra minutes to sanitising these parts of the property.
For example, if your pet tends to leave a trail of cat litter pebbles on the floor near their litter box each time they finish using this box, you may want to ask your cleaner to not only hoover up these pebbles but to also sanitise this area with either a steam-cleaner or some type of pet-safe disinfecting chemical (as the litter pebbles may be contaminated with small amounts of urine or excrement).
Similarly, if your cat is a long-haired breed, and they shed a lot, you may want to instruct the cleaner to run the vacuum cleaner over the areas where your pet tends to nap (like the sofa or a rug) several times, rather than just once, to ensure that any fur that has become tangled into these items is completely removed. For more information on using cleaning chemicals around pets, contact your local cleaning service.
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