How to get cat hair off cotton sheet?

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The cat sleeps in my bed, this is not negotiable.

The fitted cotton sheet comes out of the washing machine with a layer of cat hair still on it. At least it is freshly laundered cat hair... but it's tickly and unsightly and annoying. How can I get rid of it?

The polycotton duvet covers and pillows seem to shed the hair much better, but I'd much rather have cotton and don't really want to swap the sheets for 50% plastic too :(

Is there any other solution that I haven't thought of? An easier way to shift it than wrapping miles and miles of sellotape round my hand to brush it with each time?

I have the feeling that DP is going to hate this when we move in together...

A lint roller (£1.50 from Primark)? Basically a glorified roll of sellotape wrapped round your hand but at least it might be a bit quicker!

Put a pair of rubber gloves on and rub your hands across the sheets energentically (kinky-sounding, but it really does work).

I washed my superking size mattress protector yesterday and I slung it on the bed this morning to make up later. Bloody cat has made a nest in it ffs! Bet he was thinking "oh this is lovely, smells of yellow Comfort too, my favourite".

I second Penelope's suggestion - a lint roller is the way to go! I have a very fluffy cat and we always have a couple of lint rollers kicking around the house to clean up after she has been sleeping on the sofa! I get mine from Poundland.

Lint roller, oh is THAT what one of those is?! Thought those were something to do with bobbling fabric. Doesn't the top layer of sellotape get all clogged up in the first stroke so it needs another and another and another (as per my occasional attempts to do the sellotape on hand version)? I'll buy one and give it a go.

Rubber gloves sounds good, reminded me of getting big balls of hair off the carpet with a rubber soled shoe before I got the floor laminated. Maybe I should just laminate the entire rest of the house, bed, sofa, desk, DP...

Are there any hand held vacuum cleaners that are good enough to really get cat hair off fabric? Preferably ones that run off the mains as a battery one will run out all the time. I reckon I'll have to run around de-hairing everything quite a lot, at least until DP has become properly attached to the cat and permanently completely covered in cat hair himself.

How do you normally dry the sheets?

Have usually found that popping the sheet in the dryer (drier?) for about 15 minutes (at least) helps get rid of cat hair. Collects in the lint catcher thingammybob so easily disposed of too.

I'll second the tumble dryer.

My dog beds go in the dryer even in the summer.

Yes, the lint rollers are brilliant but you can get through them very quickly if you have a fluffy cat. Rubber glove method is sustainable and strangely satisfying .

No tumble drier.

Do you think my DP will be more put off by my hairy sleeps-in-the-bed cat, or by catching me on hands and knees, wearing rubber gloves, vigorously rubbing the bedsheets?

I might have to just buy new sheets every week for the first few months...