Cat Fur

[cos]

If you have sheddy cats... What do you use to get cat hair off clothes and bedsheets? What do you use to prevent cat fur from building up on beds & couches?

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[alarivana.livejournal.com]

Lately, we've been using a tool called a furminator to remove a lot of the loose fur from the cat, preventing it from ending up on things in the first place. This works if you have a lot of time for brushing cats, and the cats will tolerate it.

[cos]

That's at least three recommendations for the furminator. I'm quite sure my cat would tolerate it, because she interprets all such things as petting & scritching, and happily purrs while I find matted fur and cut it off with scissors or other things you'd think would annoy a cat.

What prompted this post was the massive buildup of cat hair on my bed when I got back from my half-month road trip last week. My housemates took turns feeding and watering my cat and cleaning her litterbox, but I never asked them to pick fur off my bed :) I suppose I could ask people to furminate her while I'm away...

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

I find that if I give the Princess a good brushing before I go, there's less fur to clear up when I get back. Of course, I'm never gone for more than a week, so that may not work as well for you.

[kajmal.livejournal.com]

I agree about the furminator. You just need to like, do it outside and naked if you don't want to spend an hour vacuuming your house and de-furing your clothes. That stuff gets everywhere. I furminated my cat almost two weeks ago, collecting an entire paper shopping bag of fur. There has been no fur on my clothes or furniture since then.