pet hair

I constantly feel like I am going to go insane with the dog hair on my carpet. I have a black lab and very light carpet and the dog hair just sticks to it and no matter how much I vacuum it is never completely gone (I dont get to vacuum a lot as DD hates it!) I have a special head on the vacuum but I swear it makes no difference. Poor DD always has dog hair stuck to her.

Just wondering if anyone has any magical solution for me LOL! oh and I would love to make Diesel an outside dog but he is actually only inside at night and I could not make him stay outside all the time, I'm too soft! I am thinking maybe I should just get over it but theres no harm in asking is there?

I have the same prob and it truely drives me insane!! except we have a golden retriever and dark coloured carpet... I can't even look at it it's so frustrating and once I start vacumming it seems to look even worse sometimes... It takes forever to get it all and I need to vacuum daily or gets soooo thick.... So I'm really no help I just wanted to moan about it

Edited by freckle

My only solution was to let my boy sleep on a blanket in a room with lino overnight - kitchen or bathroom or laundry. I could run a mop over the area in the morning and it was clean again. The other thing that helps is brushing my boof head before he is allowed inside to get the worst of the loose hair out of his coat.

Ive got a huntaway golden retriever cross, huntaway colouring and retriver hair and man when i was pregnant it absolutley drove me insane!!! she was only inside sometimes and was only on her mat and spent most of her time outside (been like that since we got her at 8 weeks old! i know mean mummy) but i couldn't cope with the hair (before i was preg it never really bothered me i just vacumed it up (which was a mission) and that was that) but yea couldn't cope so she is now and has been for over a year an outside dog but hair still manages to make it's way inside lol so sorry no remedys just alot of sympathy lol
she does come inside for a special treat now and then but man do i pay for it hahaha we just spend lots of time outside with her now lol and R LOVES her

Edited by noodle

Odd this came up, I was gonna start one about my cat hair problem.

We have 3 cats (was 4 till recently ) and two dogs, the dogs are outside most of the time though and when in they sleep on their beds so they aren't the main issue.

Vacuuming I can deal with, although it does annoy me that I vacuum and then 10 mins later one of the cats has dropped more hair, they are all long haired and leave clumps of hair rather than shedding fine hair everywhere.
What is annoying me at the moment is the curtains, cos they sit on the window sill and in our window seat they leave hair on the backs of the curtains along with that oily stuff off their fur so I end up having to take the curtains down and wash them which is a bit extreme just for some cat hair but I don't know how else to clean it. And the hair just seems to stick to the dining room chairs as well, so of course where do they sit? on the dining room chairs I'm thinking of shooting them all then I won't have this issue.

cuppatea - I had the same problem with my cats years ago and I ended up getting one of those sticky roller things from the supermarket to get the hair off the curtains. It was a PITA to do but at least it got rid of the hair although there were always still faint marks from where the hair had been.

Yep have a lint roller (well two actually as I had to buy another one so Spencer could help!) but it doesn't get rid of the other stuff, the hair leaves like a black oily mark. Stupid black cats, should have beige ones to match the curtains...lol

Oh thank you that looks awesome. I have a dyson and it comes with a head that has a little bit of that red stuff on it that I use on the sofas but that one looks a million times better. Might sneakily buy one this week whilst Dh isn't looking and give it a go.

One of our cats is a maine coon, so a lot like the norwegian forest cat and the other two are black domestic long hair, so lots and lots of hair

I think part of the issue with the curtains is that they are thermal lined with this stuff that almost feels rubbery/plasticky so it grips the hair and grease to it. I make my cats sound really gross saying that but it just their natural oils, they aren't excessively greasy or anything.

We have a Dalmatian. She sheds year-round.
We've had professionals in here to clean the carpet and they can't get it all up.
We managed to keep hair out of the dining room by putting vinyl planking down. But the rest of the house is awash with it.
Our car is covered with it, even though she only goes in it once in a blue moon.
My Mum (who lives in AKL) calls me after every visit to say she found Phoebe's hair on her couch/bedroom/bathroom.
It follows us
Enough to drive you cuckoo, as you'd all appreciate.

Anyway.
Just wanted to add myself to the "misery list"

Agreed on the brushing Amstaff. We take our dog outside and brush her daily and it makes a huge difference!