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
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.
I run mine daily and manually vacuum once a week.
This is the way.
I hired a cleaner lol.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Both our cats hate them.
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.
Embrace the chaos
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.
Live with it. Comes with the territory.
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.
I got these in January. I’ve started to replace household single-use plastics and this one turned out to be a pretty good buy. They’re great for sturdy, unpatterned material. I use it to defuzz the cat tree and it is so satisfying. I only use it on one of the couch covers, though, as the one with a pattern in the surface of the material catches and snags. The vacuum takes care of the rest. The rest that I notice, anyway.
Make sweaters. Survive the winter.
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.
We were given a Dyson Sphere Vacuum as a wedding present.
