please come and solve my cat hair hell before I resort to waxing my cat

[TheYoungVisiter]

I am completely at my wits end with my disgusting carpets. My problem is my cat has very long, fine, fluffy black and white hair. When I hoover it just gets ground into the pile of the carpet and is impossible to remove. The only way to get it out is on hands and knees with a washing up glove and it takes hours (which I don't have).

I have tried changing hoovers and now have posh dyson which still fails to do the job. Short of shaving the cat, as far as I can see the only thing to do is change the carpets (we aren't allowed hard floors as we're in a 1st floor flat).

Which kind of carpet do you think would most repell cat hair?

rofl at waxing the cat!

Maybe you could put a jumper on it?

Bump for your cat problem

sob, thank you for your kind bump.

I have just got home from work and hoovered for half an hour and the carpet still has large grey patches on it - it looks like I never even bothered.

try the miele cat & dog hair hoover?

Is that better than the dyson pet one? The dyson did sod all to be honest. It just brushed it in even harder.

However it has brought all the other dust up beautifully!

I had a similar problem with my cat and what I used to do was brush the cat as much as possible - once a day or every second day, with one of those silicone/rubbery cat brushes that the hair sticks in. Then - I would brush my rugs with it too . My cleaner when she came had a special broom with very close tight short bristles that she used on the rugs - thankfully the rest of the floor was wood laminate. There are some jobs that no hoover is up for. If money is not such an issue you could also get the cat taken to regular grooming appointments and keep her trimmed perhaps. HTH

hmm, maybe I could invest in a special broom.

Much as I hate the mess I don't think I could bring myself to pay for cat grooming - I only go to the hairdressers myself once every 6 months so would feel very hard done by if the cat had more attention than me!

Liking your style Ruby! The cat is 16 so I could get that into the title somehow too.. and then I could use the money to pay for new carpets.

Do you think I might get a lot of people asking for their money back though?

Ermm..actually I hoover the cat and the dog with the brush attachment on my Henry! It works and they quite like it,..actually the dog loves it

Would the cat use this?

rofl! I seriously doubt the cat would use that but at £10 it's got to be cheaper than changing the carpets. I might try that and a rubber brush...

I do have one of those little rubber brushes for grooming but the cat doesn't really like being groomed with it and although it works a treat on the floors it takes me about 2 hours to do the whole flat and as I work I resent spending my evenings on my hands and knees scraping up cat hair.

TBH normally leave the place in a state of borderline filth but we are hoping to sell in the new year and the carpets look awful -even though under the hair they are actually quite clean.