Gosh. Your gif brings back memories.
As a Christmas present my better-half gave me the gift of having the carpets cleaned, B4 company came for the Holidays.
Similar situation...cat went into the Christmas tree....dog went after the cat....tree went over with a gallon of rusty water [of course, the stand was very old and seen much service] into the freshly shampooed carpet ...moments B4 the crowd was to arrive for the Big Dinner. :)
Good times.
Something you can laugh about now but at the time you probably wanted to murder the cat and dog!