If you live in a typically small apartment in dallas, it can seem like a never ending chore cleaning up after Fluffy or Fido. Between the tracked litter everywhere and the mud tracked in from outdoors, having a pet can seem like a full time job, and that’s just keeping your place in top shape. Here are a few tips for apartment dwelling pet owners so they can cut down on their cleaning time each and every month.

If you own a cat, invest in a cat box tracker matt to limit the amount of litter that your cat or cats track around the apartment. This is especially important if you have hardwood floors and no carpet to hide tracked litter around your home. The mat acts as a device to separate your cat’s paws as they leave the box, causing trapped litter to fall out on the matt and not in your carpet or floor.

While it may remind you of grandma, try to invest in a plastic entranceway mat to ensure that any walked dogs will not be tracking mud all over your carpet or floor. Often times, even the most observant dog walker doesn’t realize that Fido has gotten into something messy until they see the telltale paw prints tracked across the floor, but with a plastic mat, you can tell right away without any damage being done.

We love our pets and hate to think of what life would be like without them, but we can all take small steps to reduce the mess they make in our everyday lives.