A year and a half ago we put new carpet in our master bedroom. Lowes higher end carpet and higher end padding. Two weeks after we got it my little dog got sick on it from her south end and left a big mess with dribbles coming away from it. After the major clean-up I used a pet stain remover on the remaining residue on this medium green carpet. The carpet handled all of this very well and you can't even tell where it happened. So without the pets, I would think it should do very well in a low traffic area