Make your plumbing system pet proof
Do you own a pet? Have you ever owned one? If yes, you’ll understand how that little furry friend of yours can improve your quality of life. You have no idea how quickly a pet can be your ball of happiness. After spending very less time together, you tend to love it unconditionally. Not only this, this also helps you on an emotional as well as physical level. It helps to reduce anxiety, depression and stress. Also, it improves your immunity, lowers your blood pressure and even reduces the risk of heart diseases. In fact, the list of positives tends to be too long to be explained, and pet owners know that.
Owning a pet gives you physical and mental power. But the phase is also true that with great power comes great responsibility. Did you know that plumbing and pets are related, and they do not always mix? It is observed that pets usually put some extra strain on household fixtures like plumbing systems. This is now a warning for all the pet loving homeowners out there! You have to be careful and take some special precautions so that your furry friend doesn’t create plumbing issues.
How to Pet Proof your Plumbing System
You have to keep few things in mind to make your home’s plumbing pet proof. So here we mention some points and tips that can make you relax and not worry about plumbing problems:
- Covering up all the exposed pipes is necessary: Like your kid loves to play with new things and try new games everyday, your pet also has the same nature. Pets love to play with different things and also bite, chew, scratch and claw at different things. Exposed pipes attract pets and they bite the pipelines just for fun. But this fun can actually create problems for your home’s plumbing as well as that of surroundings. So, it is advised to keep all the exposed pipes covered so that your pet doesn’t claw its way through an aging pipe. Not only will this make you and your surrounding suffer, but the repair will be highly expensive than expected.
- Make the use of drain stoppers:Hair are a serious blockage problem, be it yours or your pet’s. Also, if you’ve ever owned a pet, you’ll know how harshly your pet’s hair fall. This can be a serious plumbing nightmare. When you bathe your pet, make sure to use drain stoppers. This won’t let the hair move into the drainage system. Otherwise, the hair that disappears from your eyes, can easily move into the pipe and create a problematic blockage eventually.
- Keep enough water outside: Pets have a tendency to bite and chew pipelines or move into the bathroom. They do it more often when they’re thirsty and don’t find enough water to drink. They won’t enter the toilet for the toilet water if you make sure that they always have something to drink outside. Keep your pet’s water bowl filled throughout the day and make their habit to use the bowl whenever they tend to move towards your bathroom for water. A non-toilet drinking option will keep them away from toilet water and they won’t create any issues there.
- Rinse off dirty pets outside: You must have seen your dog having ultimate fun while rolling in mud and muck. This is every dog’s best thing to do for fun sake. But this can be a problem for your plumbing system. When you’ll rinse your dog off, it’ll be likely to lose tons of matted, muddy fur. Now this mud can stubbornly clog the drains very quickly. It’s better to rinse the dog outside first to remove maximum mud. When you find that maximum mud is removed, you can take your pet inside for the remaining work. This way, your pipes will be protected from that deadly combo of mud and fur.
You don’t need to stop keeping pets to avoid plumbing problems. They act as a sweetener in a life and make it more interesting, friendly and happening. You just need to be little careful towards your home’s plumbing as well as the cute little creation of God. Just keep us with these tips and it’s all set.