Top 8 Tips for Living With Pets Indoors

When the weather turns cool, people come indoors and so do pets!  People tend to take off their shoes so they don’t track things in, but most dogs, cats and birds do not wear shoes.  Besides having pets indoors more, windows get closed, heating systems go on, fireplaces start burning, and indoor air quality goes down, down, down.

  1. Check your filters, particularly pre-filters. They can catch the bigger pieces of dust and dander and prolong the life of your HEPA filter.
  2. Keep pets out of the bedroom if possible, particularly out of babies and kids rooms!  Childhood asthma is sky-rocketing and “pets-in-beds” is not a healthy idea. If the pet absolutely must sleep in the room, try to get it to sleep on the floor near the air purifier, especially cats.
  3. Keep rugs near where your pet comes in and out so that their feet get wiped, and wash those rugs often.
  4. Keep a clean room in the house where the pet is not allowed and where an air purifier runs continually.  That way if anyone is having an allergy or asthma episode, they have an escape.
  5. Pets’ lungs are affected by indoor air quality too.  Try not to smoke indoors but if you do, confine it to a room with an air purifier that can handle smoke and keep kids and pets out.
  6. Bathe pets often to reduce dander and remove allergens on their fur.
  7. Brush pets outdoors as fall is a big shedding time for most pets.
  8. Wash bedding in the hottest water possible to kill not only dust mites but fleas your pets may bring in from outdoors.

Yes, pets definitely raise the quality of our lives, but if we let them ruin our respiratory systems, that quality quickly diminishes.

We have lots of articles and case studies on successful living with pets:

http://www.airpurifiers.com/articles/pets.htm

http://www.airpurifiers.com/articles/dog-allergies.htm

http://www.airpurifiers.com/articles/dust-dander.htm

http://www.airpurifiers.com/articles/doggroomingshop.htm

http://www.airpurifiers.com/articles/pet-allergies.htm

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