How to cope with cat hair

[DigOlBick]

My fiancée has 5 cats. Personally I think this way too many for one house but obviously we’re not getting rid of any.
I just hate living in a house that constantly full of hair. We have top of the range pet hair Hoover etc but I still have to get down on my hands and knees and squeegee the carpets to get it all out. My clothes are constantly covered in hair, they jump up on the sides, bring in dead animals. They’re the only source of arguments between us. I’m due to give birth in a month and I just want too relax but I just hate them being here so much. I think because I’m trying to nest it’s not helping. One of them has worms so is leaving little bloody puddles of wee everywhere but have to wait till fiancees day off to do anything as I can’t wrangle them into carriers and take them to the vets. For some reason the verbs won’t give us the tablets, they have to go there for it.
One of them walks around howling all night. The fight. I’m so miserable but need to find ways to adapt! Any ideas?

Have you tried the feliway friends plug in? It's specially designed for angry cats in a multi cat household. May be worth a try?

The vet will need to see the cat before prescribing, especially if they were only treated 4 weeks ago.

Working treatment only works in the immediate, as in any worms present will be killed and passed.

Puss cat could go gobble down a mouse within 24 hours and swallow worm eggs and end up with worms again unfortunately.

Well you and dp need to do something about it fast before your defenseless baby arrives. If he's agreeable to rehoming some of them then do that asap. Your baby comes first and you need to have a clean hygienic home for them.

Get an anti shedding brush! I struggled with cat hair for the first couple months of my babies life, constantly having to clean hair from her neck folds and hands. Wish I'd bought one of these sooner!

The bully needs rehoming. The others are prob so stressed they're scent marking on overdrive & that's causing the smell. Get monthly Petsathome online worm & flea spot on stuff set up. It's delivered so you don't forget , ,£4 a month. Bloody wee is a UTI, not worms . Pet hair on furniture, dampen a rubber glove, run over item & hair lifts off. Get a cat flap or have a perm open window if you're there all day so they can all come & go & not be on top of each other.

Not helpful as I don't have a cat but I honestly couldn't cope with that in normal times, if I was pregnant I couldn't cope at all.

Preparing for the arrival of your first is so special, I wouldn't want to bring my child into a house like that.

The PP who had to pick cat hair from her baby's skin folds

I once moved in with a friend that had 2 house cats, they used the living room as a litter tray and the sofa was COVERED in their hair - I had to move out. It was vile.

Definitely keep them away from where the baby will sleep so you know that bit is clean.

But I loved my baby being on a blanket on the living room floor when she was a baby, we lay there together for hours, no way could I have done that on a hairy carpet.

I would keep them outside as much as possible as I wouldn't let the bully any where near my own cat. The worms and incontinence sound 🤢. You're going to be busy enough with your newborn without cleaning up after cats.

What I could train myself to cope with as an adult, I just wouldn't be able to accept for my baby.

I know that's probably not helpful, I think you're coping brilliantly!!

In have nothing against cats and LOVE getting to feed and fuss my neighbours beautiful cat - I even offered to have her while she has an extended break - but when pg and having babies, I couldn't cope with the mess, smell or extra demands on my time.

Not our first baby, but I still don’t want them around him. I want him to be able to roll around on the rug in the living room.

@DigOlBick

There’s not really a lot he can do when he’s out of the house for 14 hours a day. I’m at home all day doing nothing.

There's hardly ever a day goes by on Mumsnet anymore where a very stressed, overburdened woman doesn't declare that their husband does bugger all, because they're permanently at work.

It's not good enough imo. The only reason they have the 'luxury' of being permanently working is because they have a woman at home, literally doing everything.

If he wants his cats, he needs to start looking after them.

Don’t what your problem is but he worked these hours before we even met….

@DigOlBick

Don’t what your problem is but he worked these hours before we even met….

And who looked after his cats then?

I don't have a problem but you really do and if this is the way he acts over the care of his cats, I hope he can find more time for the care of his baby, otherwise you'll have to take even more onboard alone.

If he wants five cats, he needs to look after them.

Worms won't cause bloody urine - that's probably a UTI or cystitis and means the cat needs to see a vet ASAP. My male cat had blood in his urine at the weekend and when I rang the vet, he was seen within the hour. Antibiotics and painkillers and he's fine now, but only because I got him seen to ASAP.

We have three cats and while, yes, they are low maintenance compared to dogs, they still require a fair bit of input. They need regular flea and worm treatments, clean litter trays, food, fresh water, interaction, fuss and play. You need to clean up after them too - litter, hair, poo, hairballs, the loot from their hunts..

If being at work for 14 hours a day means he can't look after that many cats, then he needs to rehome some of them so that the number he has left is manageable for him.

Well what the vet won’t tell you is that most cats carry a variety of worms but their immune system manages to keep the burden level in check however, there are many species which are zoonotic, free living, transparent, and resemble cat hair and are IMPOSSIBLE to get out of carpet or anything Cotten like due to their reproduction rate of 30,000 eggs a day. Almost any helminths of the nematode class will get overlooked as cat hair until years later your feet won’t stop itching and you shine a black light on them to see the transparent things and then realize the internet is void of any information that is accurate, you realize there’s a lot more to it than the foolish advice “ wash your hands after changing litter” because once you discover the 30,000 eggs are not only sticky as glue but also airborne with each scoop and stuck to kitty’s paws as she jumps in your bedding, and the eggs aren’t visible at 7um without a cheap scope so washing hands won’t do a thing and to make it worse they don’t make a soap or detergent strong enough to kill the eggs which can live stuck to surfaces for years as these creatures lack respiratory and circulatory systems. You do your own testing since despite all the health industries studies you won’t find anything practical and you will come to the conclusion they survive boiling water for hours, freezing for days, hydrogen peroxide for 4 hours submerged, 90% rubbing alcohol for 1 hour submerged, and the only option for immediate death is submerged in 90% ethanol or a blow torch (map gas works best). So unless you can fully submerge your entire floors or blowtorch your carpet you may well be out of luck.