re: carpet cleaning
Have you tried an enzyme cleaner? I use Baczymes and it works wonders, not only on the stains, but on the odor.
My little dog passed away back in October after battling osteosarcoma (bone cancer). She had been doing quite well and one evening we left for about an hour and a half and came home to find her laying in the middle of the living room floor (carpet) in a large pool of blood. She had started bleeding profusely from her nose... the Baczymes cleaned up the blood with no problems. Can't even tell where it was (although I will say that our carpet is brown - not dark brown, but not beige either. Sort of a light "chocolate" color.) With 4 Great Danes in the house, we get a LOT of mud tracked in, and slobber thrown around, but I've had no problems keeping the carpet clean using enzymes rather than "cleaners".
And no, I've not shampooed our carpet at all in the three years we've had it - hubby refuses to let me... so we just vacuum religiously. And spot clean where necessary. Not only does it eliminate the wrinkle/stretch issue, but our carpet doesn't wear out as quickly - even with traffic from over 600# of Great Danes and 2 humans.
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