For years people have
been asking us if DooDoo Voodoo is effective on stains as well as odors.
We've generally shied away from making stain removal claims 'cause we didn't
want people hating us if DooDoo Voodoo didn't fully remove their stains.
We knew that we'd personally had incredible luck removing stains with DooDoo
Voodoo, and that over the years people had reported total success at removing
urine, vomit, feces, cranberry juice, grape juice and lots more. Well,
we thought we'd show you an example of how well DooDoo Voodoo can remove cat
vomit staining.
One of our kitties, Georgette, has
been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas, liver and spleen, as well as
likely other places, too. We're choosing to believe she's being cured
and are treating her with conventional medicine, alternative therapies like
acupuncture & energy healing, and lots of natural supplements (noni juice,
digestive enzymes, vitamins, mushroom extracts and more). She has an
abdominal feeding tube and we're feeding her every 3 hours 'round the clock.
She's also receiving daily subcutaneous fluid infusions and, as you might
imagine, LOTS of love. She's acting totally cat-like and looks darned
good considering all she's been through, but she's prone to vomiting,
sometimes quite violently...as you'll see below.
Sometimes she'll go over a day
without vomiting, but that's rare. She typically vomits a few times a
day. In between bouts of vomiting, she acts totally normal and, aside
from her feeding tube and shaved sides from her ultrasounds, you'd never know
she wasn't absolutely healthy.
Sorry to be so graphic, but some of the times she vomits, it's just foamy bile, which is
typical of a kitty with pancreas/liver/spleen issues. Other times,
though, she'll totally unload the food we've put through her abdominal feeding
tube. She's being fed a couple special foods that are made for tube
feeding, and they are quite dark and staining. We have light-colored
carpet, so the staining is a real issue for us.
Yesterday, Georgette had the run
of the house (without our being around) only during a specific time period, so we
were able to ascertain what time of day she vomited. We log all her
feedings and other treatments, so we knew when she'd been fed. We didn't
find the vomit until today 'cause it was in a room where she doesn't usually
hang out: our exercise room. (Neither do we lately, but that's a
whole other story.)
Today
I fired up our portable carpet extractor, which is known in the carpet
cleaning industry as a "spotter," meaning that it's not made for cleaning
entire rooms...just spots or upholstery. The unit uses a 3" wand and
only provides suction, not the agitation some consumer-grade carpet cleaning
machines provide with their rotary bristles. (Agitation gets out a lot
more than just suction.)
While our machine is pretty powerful, it's a small little thing that's meant
to be carried from room to room, so it doesn't have nearly the oomph that a
larger portable or a truck-mount machine would have. Still, the results I achieved with less than a quart of DooDoo Voodoo RTU and a few
minutes' time were nothing short of amazing. I videotaped the cleaning
session, narrating as I went, and am planning to post the video to our website
in the future. For now, though, the two before and after pictures shown
below will have to
suffice.
The
pictures are absolutely unretouched and unaltered in any way except having
the text added and being resized for the website. The difference in
color between the two photos is due to the automatic white balance of the
camera I grabbed. Please excuse this slight mismatch, but I wanted the
pictures to be absolutely unaltered in any way so you could see for yourself
just how clean the carpet looked when I finished.
I poured RTU DooDoo Voodoo on the
vomit, then let it dwell for about three minutes, at which point I extracted
it with our portable. This whole thing took me less than 5 minutes
to perform...and with only suction from a portable, not agitation. The
vomit had dried totally hard over the last 26 hours, so it wasn't as if I was
just pulling up liquid. Even with that, there was no blotting, no scrubbing, nothing.
Note
that I did NOT use all the quarts of RTU (ready-to-use) DooDoo Voodoo shown in
the picture; I only used
less than one quart.
If you buy DooDoo Voodoo Concentrate and add your own warm water, the quart of
RTU would cost you as little as $0.31 depending on dilution ratio and which
size Concentrate you buy.
The carpet remained slightly moist
with DooDoo Voodoo, which would negate any remaining staining (and odor) as the area
dried.
It would've been interesting to
see what just DooDoo Voodoo alone would have done. We've used it alone
on other urine, feces and vomit stains and, in a lot of cases, DooDoo Voodoo
alone totally eradicated the stains. There was a lot of solid
material associated with this cleanup, though, so extracting was necessary.
We hope you'll be impressed by
these photos and will purchase some DooDoo Voodoo for yourself today.
(Click on either picture to see
a larger 640x480 version.)
Note: Since your stains and
environment are totally beyond our control, no guarantee is offered or should
be inferred.
In addition, I've put together a
page dealing with the cleanup of the blood and blood clot Georgette once
vomited. The page is in PDF format and is 384Kb in size. While it
does show a couple blood stains, it's not really all that gross...and is a
dramatic testimony (perhaps even more than the two photos above) to DooDoo
Voodoo's stain-removal abilities. You can access the PDF document
here.
You can also find it on our
DOWNLOADS page.
You also may want to check out an alternate,
"quickie"
method of stain removal as discussed on our
Cleaning Up
Cat Barf On Carpet page. It is applicable to dog vomit
and other such stains, too. It doesn't do squat for odors and is no
substitute for the DooDoo Voodoo method (either with or without a carpet
extractor), but in a pinch it does a good stain-removal job.
DooDoo
Voodoo alone is phenomenal at removing stains and odors. But, if
your odor problems are more in-depth than you think you can tackle yourself
with just DooDoo Voodoo alone, you might desire to enlist the services of a
professional with a specialized, patented device we own multiples of and have
found to be extraordinarily effective with DooDoo Voodoo: the
Water Claw
(the family of products is shown to the right). To find a carpet cleaner
in your area who uses the Water Claw (you might have to provide the DooDoo
Voodoo yourself), visit this link:
http://www.hydroforce.com/distrib_locator.html.
This link takes you to a page where you can locate a company that distributes
Water Claws in your area. By calling them, they should be able to refer
you to a local carpet cleaning company you can hire. If the company has
questions about using the
Water Claw
with DooDoo Voodoo,
have them call or e-mail us and we'll step them through it. To see short
videos of a couple of
Water Claws being used,
visit
http://www.waterclaw.com/videos.html. One view, and
you'll forever understand why conventional carpet cleaning isn't in-depth
enough to eradicate pet odors.
Regardless whether you use
DooDoo Voodoo or not (and we certainly hope you do), you and your animals could
also benefit from purifying your air. We put together an educational
page about how we accomplish this, so check out our
Freshen Air
page. One of our favorite new tools is
Dr.
Whitaker's Neoair Plus Total Shield air purifier, which we
recently bought six of.
(Editor's Note:
Unfortunately, Georgette passed away on November 16, 2006. You can read
the story of her life, and see some cute pictures, by clicking
here. She
had an incredible will and personality, and we learned a lot from her about grace during
adversity. What a gal!)
