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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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.
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.
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.
Live with it. Comes with the territory.
My fiance sheds more hair than the 3 cats. Can't be angry at the cats when she's worse.
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.
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.
I hired a cleaner lol.
Easy, just make your entire existence about constantly cleaning. But seriously, we just do what we can and the rest is what it is.
Robot vacuum.
Is there a particular one that you would recommend that is the biggest bang for the buck? Having a robot vacuum would be cool but I know some brands are more expensive than others.
Can recommended the Eufy RoboVac. Its made a huge difference and requires little effort to set up. I run it every other day and its basically eliminated "tumbleweeds".
Thanks! I'll check that one out. Ha, I have hardwood floors so tumbleweeds between the cat hair, dust, and them ripping apart their cat tree they are a pretty common site. Having this around would definitely help!
How do people use robot vaccuums with 3 floors? And closed doors? Do you need like 6 of em?
We have two cats, we vacuum once a week, and brush them every two weeks, and the fur buildup is really not that noticable.
We also have them on a vet diet which has been incredibly good for their skin and fur, so they don't seem to shed as much.
They're trained not to go up on the countertops and cabinets to prevent fur getting into food. They do it when I'm not around, but it still reduces fur up there.
It probably scales up linearly for 4 cats, so vacuum twice a week and brush them weekly.
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.
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.
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.
Using a robot vacuum when pet hair is concerned is a lot like running a dryer on things that have a lot of lint. You need to regularly stop it and empty the buildup for a few cycles, otherwise it's just going to be pushing things around. I can't speak for the self-empying ones, I suppose for them it depends on how well the sensor works to get them to dump.
Roomba and chomchom
Team Roomba/chomchom here. Agreed, this is the best combo.
sorry but how does it get in the food
I ask myself the same question
The better question is, how does it get in his mouse??
God I wish I knew
lots of little hairs float around in the air, and settle on everything including the meal you just set down.
source: 2 labradors
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.
Get a pair of gloves like these: https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Version-Pet-Grooming-Glove/dp/B01N9KSITZ/
My cat loves to be rubbed down with these gloves and they accumulate a massive amount of fur every session.
Both our cats hate them.
Oooh I really like that idea, thanks for the suggestion. I'll order one for sure!
I can also vouch for the gloves. Figure out which of your cats sheds the most and target brushing them at least twice a week, maybe more, if you can get them to hang out while you're watching TV.
Only one of my two cats really does 90% of the shedding, and since I started using the gloves, the level of fur tumbleweeds collecting in the corners of my house had decreased dramatically.
You can also use the gloves to brush the couch to remove fur!
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.
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
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.
Whenever I enter a house that doesn't have fur, I feel like I'm around robots.
Embrace the chaos
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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