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White carpet and pets, even the most well-mannered and trained, usually don't play well together. Hell, white carpet and I don't play well together.
I know you want to see your friend. You have to decide if you want to see her bad enough RIGHT NOW to have your stuff messed up. Pets are messy. Lovable and sweet (mostly), but messy.
If you do want to see her bad enough right now, versus delaying the trip for a while or until she can have someone stay with her dog while she visits, then make sure not to pull some passive aggressive stuff with her when an accident or some sort of messiness does occur. If you opt to let her come, then you have to be prepared for something to occur. If nothing happens and you have a good, clean visit....great! But I'd veer on the side of assuming that if she came, something, somewhere would get soiled and make the best preparations you could.
For the record, they now make pee pads that literally have a giant bullseye in the middle and they inject the pad with pheromones to help draw the pet directly to the middle to wee. That would help with direction but nothing will help if the poor guy is incontinent and becoming senile (which often leads to personality and behavioral changes in pets and humans alike).
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