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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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

I (in the past with cats) have groomed the cats with a brush and comb regularly;
fed the cats foods that encourage a good coat and skin condition so that they didn't shed so much;
used a vacuum cleaner specifically chosen to pick up fur (in my case, it's an older-model Dyson with the "turbo brush" rotating head) and vacuumed a lot;
kept the cats off surfaces I didn't want cat hair on, such as my bed;
used a stick cat-fur-removing widget to remove the hair from some clothes if they got hairy.

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

My cats laugh at our attempts to make any surfacd in the house off limits; they've simply learned to jump & look innocent when they hear us coming!

[cos]

I also think keeping cats off the bed partially defeats the point of having cats, so that one's not an option for me even if it were possible (she's too used to sleeping on the bed by now anyway).

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

The cats do not actually sleep on our bed. They sleep on top of us, on the bed. :) (But then, that's one of the reasons we got them!) They pretty much have the run of the house - we even built the kitchen bookcases specifically to give them a staircase to run up and down:


But we do try to keep them off the kitchen table and counters. The new automatic-opening trash can is especially funny in that it replaced the older trash can that Skitters used as a step up onto the counters!

[pikake.livejournal.com]

nice bookshelf!!

did you build it from scratch?

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

Heck no, IKEA did most of the work! :)