dog and cat fur everywhere

[Marsha]

What do y'all do about dog and cat fur on clothes and furniture? Do you just accept it as a fact of life that when you invite visitors to sit down that their rear end will be covered with animal fur when they stand up? I never walk out of the house without some fur on my clothing. Just wondering if anybody has some method of cleaning the fur off their furniture (besides keeping the animals off the furniture!) and how do you leave your house without dog hair on your clothes? I just read about a process called Furminator that some groomers have......well, I don't guess I actually read much about it. That's all I know is that it's called Furminator and it's supposed to minimize shedding. Any good ideas on cleaning furniture and getting the fur off clothing. Even machine washing and drying doesn't get all the hair off some clothing...I guess it depends on what it's made of.

[Justine Archuleta]

All I can say is vaccuum. It works wonders. My dad thinks I'm crazy because I vaccuum off my clothes when they get super hairy. You can try brushing your dog and cat every day. Good luck!

[zok]

We have hardwood floors and find many fur tumbleweeds if we don't vacuum for a few days ... so we tend to vacuum a lot :)

As far as the furniture is concerned, I've tried to vacuum it with the hand/brush attachment and it really doesn't work on our type of furniture. In all honesty, we've kinda given up on the sofa and love seats unless we are having visitors and then we use Mr. Sticky. Mr. Sticky is a sticky rubber type roller that can be rinsed off and can be reused repeatedly. It really works well, but the only problem is that if you are trying to clean a large piece of furniture you need to have a bucket and a towel with you to rinse and dry Mr. Sticky (and depending on how much fur there is, it can take a while to get the furniture relatively clean) and then you need to wait for the furniture to dry.

http://www.usjesco.com/mrsticky.asp

We keep peelable adhesive lint rollers in the car and at work to help with fur on clothing ... these work really well but are wasteful and expensive, so we try to use them as little as possible. (I've gotten a 5 pack of lint rollers from Sam's club for between 8 and 10 dollars and if you only use them in the car or at work they seem to last for a while).

Generally speaking, we’ve just kinda given in to being constantly covered in fur!

:)

zok

[heathea]

leather furniture...sweep it off once in a while. That was the main reason we bought a leather couch, doesn't "hold" onto dog fur. However, there are plenty of tumbleweeds.

Good luck!
Heather

[Andre Mendizabal]

We gave up our loveseat, since now its a dogseat... :( but they do climb up beds and other couches, now they do it less because I got sick of spending every waking hour cleaning up after them, we also custom made some couch covers so when we have visits we only take them away and the couch is as good as new!!!!
Regarding to clothes, I also use that mr sticky thing... it works ...
To clean up the car I use a regular car vacuum and that can take away all the loose fur!!!!
I came to work with a black jacket and when I sat in my desk and look to my arm there was a trail of white hair I didn't notice before I left home... i tried taking it out with a strip of regular magic tape and it came out!!!!
brushing, giving them vitamins, and doing everything you can to stop the shedding is sometimes not enough so, yeah, I mostly accept it as a fact of having dogs in my life... I would love to know more about the furminator, though!!!!
:cool:

[Melanie Xarti]

Doggy hair. Tumbleweeds. Drool spots on the ceiling. I guess it's just an accepted part of life with a Springer and Saint. I never really think much of it anymore. I clean when I can, but sometimes I just don't feel like it. And I'm ok if a tumbleweed rolls by and waves. :p
We have throw blankets and/or slipcovers over our chairs and couches. We just toss them in the laundry every couple of loads.
The one time I was truly shocked at all the hair was when my mother gave me a fleece hoodie as a gift. I wore it once and looked like I dipped myself in glue and jumped into a vat of dog hair. Now I just don't wear anything fleece. :rolleyes:

[Sheryl]

After there is a certain amount of dog and cat hair covering everything, friends stop coming to visit and you don't have to worry!! :) Just kidding!
I have a sheet that I put on the couch and only take it off when company comes over, but I am thinking of buying a washable slipcover that kinda looks okay with the rest of the decor instead of the sheet. The reality is that the animals are on the furniture WAY more than any guests. And most of my friends are pet people, so we get to 'exchange' hair when at each others' houses!
A roll of packing tape works wonders and is cheaper than the lint rollers. One of my friends only wears clothes that are the same color as her pet, unless like me you have an orange cat, and orange & white cat, and a black dog.
I also learned the hard way to run the washer once completely empty after washing a load of dog towels and blankets, or else the next load has lots of hair too.

[Dave Kersh]

Drool spots on the ceiling.
Thanks for the laugh! :lol:

I think it also depends on the kind of animal you have. Some shorthaired breeds (Dalmations come to mind) have barbed hair that actually imbeds itself into fabric and can be almost impossible to get out. Corgis blow thier coats twice a year and we're covered in peach colored hair for several months. It's somewhat barbed and can be pretty persistant. The Aussies have lots of hair, but it's pretty soft and doesn't really stick to anything (lots of tumbleweeds).
We vacuum alot and use lint rollers, but we've usually got hair on us somewhere. We've gotten used to it. I like to think that a little bit of my dogs goes with me everywhere! ;)

[Lesly Stevens]

I have Standard Poodles, so there's no hair anywhere, except occasionally in their pin brush. Poodles aren't droolers leaving slime behind, either, thank God! The cats, however, do shed, and THAT used to drive me crazy! My allergist turned me on to a product called Aller-Gex, which is a concentrated liquid you add water to. Then, you spray furniture, carpets, window treatments . . .and add some to the rinse water for your bedding, and it's good for a year. You know how you can see dust and fur in a ray of sunlight? Well, not when you use the Aller-Gex! I LOVE this stuff!

Although Maddy and Bo don't leave wads of hair behind, I do keep the sofa and loveseat covered with Sure Fit slipcovers. They're lovely, and they clean up in the washer and dryer when dirty feet have left marks! (Same for cat puke - ugh!) When the slipcovers are in the wash, I lay down thick bath blankets (huge towels).

Lesly