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.
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.
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.
Easy, just make your entire existence about constantly cleaning. But seriously, we just do what we can and the rest is what it is.
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.
My fiance sheds more hair than the 3 cats. Can’t be angry at the cats when she’s worse.
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?
I hired a cleaner lol.
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.
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.
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.
