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.

    • kadu@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
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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.

  • Nisciunu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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

    • burt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

  • CheeseChief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Easy, just make your entire existence about constantly cleaning. But seriously, we just do what we can and the rest is what it is.

  • emcon_delta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.

  • mika1111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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

  • hyperhearse@kbin.social
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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.

  • xylan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Badly :-) Two golden retrievers create a lot of hair every day and at some point you just learn to live with it. Even if you regularly clean then there will be fur tumbleweeds behind and underneath everything. It really helps having hard flooring through the ground floor of the house (my dogs don’t go upstairs), as that’s easier to keep clean, and regular grooming reduces but certainly doesn’t eliminate the shedding.

    People have said that a good vaccuum cleaner helps, which is true, but my last Dyson (pet edition) got so clogged with fur that the motor caught fire! Now using a Henry vaccuum which seems to be working pretty well.

  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Robot vacuum. Dusting all the time. I mean dusting every single surface that isn’t vertical once a week. That includes windows, doors, molding, blinds, fans, lighting, etc. I also don’t let my pets on the furniture and they’re totally ok with it. People who let their dogs on their couch have a couch that smells, and I don’t want to sit on it. Also, furniture used by animals age more quickly. I don’t like replacing big expensive items. It is wasteful. Animals have their own beds etc. It’s good for them to have something that is theirs.

  • Willie@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When I was young we had 3 cats. One had really puffy fur. We just kind of existed alongside the fur. There’s nothing you can do about it. You just have to coexist. I think it’s a part of having pets.

  • AidsAcrossAmerica@kbin.social
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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.