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.
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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
I run mine daily and manually vacuum once a week.
This is the way.
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.
Make sweaters. Survive the winter.
I have Golden. I just accepted that, robot vacuum help a little but fur in the coffee is just part od morning routine
Robot vacuum.
How do people use robot vaccuums with 3 floors? And closed doors? Do you need like 6 of em?
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.
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.
An extra-powerful vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. And a supply of those sticky rollers for taking up fur that got on your clothes.
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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.
No offence but that’s neglect on your part as they can be carriers of bacteria & viruses. For starters reduce their contact with young ones, there have been studies that prove the build-up of allergies from them.
Owning them is a responsibility toward yourself & others:
- wash your hands after handling them & avoid contact with animal’s faeces.
- Vaccination up to date.
- Disinfect the pet area regularly.
You and I must read different scientific manuscripts. The ones I read all show that owning dogs and cats with newborns lessons the likely hood of getting pet allergies, and also reduce allergies to dust, pollen, etc.; oddly enough, hamsters increase allergies
Are you implying having pets is negligent? I find that claim very funny.
If your point is that fur contains bacteria, that’s true but not really - it’s absolutely not where you’d find most bacteria in an average household, and fur isn’t particularly easy to degrade either. As for viruses, that’s absolutely not the case.
If your concern is with my animals, I don’t see how anything on my post implies I don’t take care of them. Their vet visits them once a month, they are fully vaccinated, they have nice litter and premium food. They are at a healthy weight, have plenty of toys, and a lot of vertical enhancement.
And no, there are no young ones living with me. Though you’re incorrect, contact with animals is correlated with a decrease in respiratory allergies, not an increase. Their feces are however dangerous to infants.
The confidently incorrect redditors are starting to arrive.
People like that were around even before Reddit, or the internet. When I run into them face-to-face I just smile and let them spew their “facts”, it’s easier and faster to not engage them in debate.
you think four cats are bad. I have one golden retriever!!!
I see your golden retriever and raise you one German shepherd/corgi mix.
I don’t mean to disbelieve you or anything but that sounds like less hair.
Yeah, it might be a tie at best, I don’t actually know how much golden retrievers shed.
sorry but how does it get in the food
The better question is, how does it get in his mouse??
lots of little hairs float around in the air, and settle on everything including the meal you just set down.
source: 2 labradors
I ask myself the same question
Do those reusable ones actually work okay? Or do I need the disposable paper ones?
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.
