14 Cleaning Hacks Every Dog or Cat Owner Should Know

Keep your cats off the couch with aluminum foil.

Tear off a piece of foil long enough to cover the top of your couch, and set it on the cushions.

The feel and sound of the foil drives cats nuts and they’ll immediately jump off.

If you wash your dog in the bathtub or shower, you’re begging for a clogged drain.

Keep fur out of the drain with a mesh-type scrubbing pad.

In a shower, clip the pad to the drain plate with a bobby pin.

In a bathtub, wedge two pads under the stopper from two sides.

The pads catch fur but let water flow through.

Some dogs can’t grasp the idea that you don’t have to climb into the water dish to take a drink.

So rather than refilling their dishes 10 times a day, make a tip-proof watering dish out of an old Bundt cake pan.

Drive a stake through the hole in the middle of the pan. Now your dog will have to find some other source of amusement.

Every once in awhile pets get into something they shouldn’t and lumber inside bringing a nasty smell indoors. One way to get rid of those bad smells is with a deodouriser that can be spritzed directly on the pet!

Some deodourisers don’t leave your room (or pet) smelling like flowers, cinnamon or incense.

What the odorless formula does is eliminate, not cover up, smells.

The formula is an oxidizer. It must contact the odor source in order to work.

From pets to tobacco to general household odors to smelly carpet in your car, some work great.