I have 4 cats. I love them very much.

They also produce more fur than there are grains of sand in this God forsaken earth. There’s fur in my clothes, food, mouse, ceiling fan, body crevices.

Help. Me.

  • Nisciunu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Robot vacuum. We programmed it for morning and evening cleanup so the built up is okish. You have to accept that this is your life meow

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      1 year ago

      We have two cats and a dog, like you, the robot runs twice a day and we do a thorough vacuuming once or twice a week.

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    1 year ago

    I have a Collie. I just keep getting the most expensive vacuums I can until all the hair inevitably binds to our pores and turns the whole family feral.

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    1 year ago

    I solved it by getting a dog that doesn’t shed.

    We have to get her groomed every 6 weeks, though or else she turns into Fluff McMuffin.

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    1 year ago

    We have a labrador. He gets brushed with a Furminator brush every few weeks, and we vacuum EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. Otherwise the shedding is out of control.

    We discovered shortly after we adopted him that I am allergic to dogs, something I never noticed growing up with dogs, likely because my family’s house was larger than our small apartment. So now the solution is being better about cleaning, as well as a daily dose of zyrtec for the life of our dog.

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    1 year ago

    I have Golden. I just accepted that, robot vacuum help a little but fur in the coffee is just part od morning routine

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    1 year ago

    i recently bought a clipper set for my cat. he’s an orange tabby & maine coon mix and he is huge. medium haired but let me tell you… the amount of freaking fur that is on everything all the time!! i brush him, comb him. i vacuum, i sweep. tried the clippers on him and he sits for a bit to let me do it but then scurries off. so i have to keep chasing him around to get as much fur as he’ll let me. he gets mats really easily too. scared to give him a bath, which would honestly help a ton. he’s just so finicky and won’t sit still to save my life. i wake up with fur in my hair, eyelids and even my mouth. it gets in my food and drinks, and you can just see strands floating around. no material of clothing i own is without his fur. i just want to be free.

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    1 year ago

    A quality vacuum. Robot or otherwise. Get something with a good HEPA filter and schedule a clean every other day in common areas, Living rooms, bedrooms, wherever they hang out. Even just a couple minutes hand vacuuming the couch every other day will help with hair build up.

    Dust surfaces frequently as well. That one i can get away with once a week but your mileage may vary.

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      1 year ago

      Do those reusable ones actually work okay? Or do I need the disposable paper ones?

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        1 year ago

        I have one of these and it works surprisingly well. The gray squeegee looking flap flips back and forth as you roll it causing the red strips to take turns sliding into the cylindrical housing where they get wiped off so the hair collects inside. It essentially relies on the red strips short fibers snagging hair better than the fabric you’re wiping it on which is usually smoother (the only thing I could see it not working on would be like a really fuzzy soft sweater or something with its own stiff short fibers that catches hair). Static might be helping there too.

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        1 year ago

        I got these in January. I’ve started to replace household single-use plastics and this one turned out to be a pretty good buy. They’re great for sturdy, unpatterned material. I use it to defuzz the cat tree and it is so satisfying. I only use it on one of the couch covers, though, as the one with a pattern in the surface of the material catches and snags. The vacuum takes care of the rest. The rest that I notice, anyway.