Wow pat,

You are really ambitious to take on shampooing your rug. You are right....that really is a biggie.....& it is hard WORK....not a bit of fun involved.....unless you play it like one of the seven dwarfs that whistles while he works.....maybe whistling the melodies while shampooing will help you work on the melodies too.....lol.

Thank you for your caring about my little dog....she sure is my baby....& add to that 10 more babies.....this house is just full of doggie love. I think you are right in that cats are rather high maintenance....even though they seem to be a little more independent. My little ones are constantly craving my attention & I always seem to have one landing in my lap pushing my arm until they get it to scratch their tummy or head.

Hope your rug shampooing goes well.....I admire you being able to put that much hard labour into that.

Gotta take time now to go ride my horse & feed the horses at the ranch.....thats good for the next 3 hours

Debbie