Keeping on top of dog hairs

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I can deal with furniture as my vacuum cleaner sorts that. And rugs/carpets. But hard floors/skirtings etc are the bane off my life!

Am I missing a magic trick? Not helped by pale floors and black dog but they're clinging to every corner no matter what!

You have my sympathy and solidarity. Summer is a terrible time for moulting.

We have an Eufy robotic vacuum cleaner and send that around the ground floors daily and more during moults (used it four times yesterday as one dog is super shedding at the moment).

I have a lint roller and an Amazon subscription for the refills which is in constant use (soft furnishing, clothing and the bottom of my husband's socks as he insists on not wearing slippers and carrying the fur everywhere!)

Hand held vacuum cleaner - quick and useful.

Diet? Some rescue dogs haven't had the best diet previously and it shows in their moult as they shed hair copiously until they are healthier. It can take months to resolve but it will get better once they are settled in with a good balanced diet.

I know someone, anecdotally, who never let their dog roam the house and confined it to their (large) hallway. I couldn't do this as I love my dog's companionship.

I know many people, including myself, who attempt to turn a blind eye and just deal with it and accept that it's a downside to owning a furry pet. At the moment one dog's fur is super thick, very fine, double coated. She's a rescue and some kind of mountain breed mix and I suspect came into the rescue because of the amount of fur she has/loses as it really is something else. I gather the loose fur up and put it out for the birds to use as nesting material (the birds love it) and tell her she's a wholesome nature helper and a very good girl. I've had many dogs as an adopter and rescue fosterer but never encountered the amount of fur this girl produces.

Sorry I cannot recommend any products you can buy that are supposed to help as I've never tried them. We had an expensive dog comb that takes out the undercoat which we used a couple of times but now I just use an old plastic hair comb which is just as effective. I find if I can get to the "sticky out bits" and pluck them with my fingers before they shed to the floor that helps a lot, my dog loves it as she loves being groomed and handled.

Luckily, the worst of it is only twice a year!

We use a rubber brush on our hard floors, the hair tends to cling to it quite easily.

How much grooming do you do, and what kinds of brush? Depending on your dog's coat-type (and on how much he/she enjoys or at least tolerates brushing) would there be scope for reducing hairs around the house by more frequent brushong or a different grooming tool?

We have a lot of hard around the house, but I get soooo much out every time I brush my dog that I know it would be a lot worse if he wa groomed less.

In terms of housework, my most useful tool was a handheld dyson. Its battery seems to have died and the newer models are soooo expensive thst I haven't replaced it, but it was very useful. A quick sweep with an ordinary broom and then suck it up with the dyson.
I also have a manual sweeper machine thingy which is quick and easy to have a go with, although of course less effective

How often are you brushing your dog?

I'm with you! I have an Akita who like a DFS sale, sheds twice a year for 6 months each. Bloody nightmare. The breeder warned us and we thought we understood what he meant. I have never seen anything like it.

DP insists on a rug in the living room too which just collects it.

I just sweep or hoover all the time and take him out to the park to de-floof. Apart from the rug it's wood laminate everywhere which helps.

With some dogs it doesn't even matter. I could brush my dog every ten mins and there is always more.

I bought the Beldray rubber sweeping brush recently and was blown away by how much it got it up. My dog has white fur so it swept up hair I didn't even realise was there, honestly you could have made a jumper out of what I found and that was on hard floors that had only been swept (with a regular sweeping brush) a day or two before! I would never be without it now, game changer.

I have also have a Shark hand held hoover for the sofa etc.

I can imagine what it is like with an akita, TakeMyStrongHand. I saw a couple of videos of akitas and huskies being goomed and my goodness the volume of shed hair was amazing, explosive!

I only have a little terrier, but I think I may invest in the rubber brush mentioned above.

@TakeMyStrongHand do you have a blaster? Game changer. Best £100 I’ve ever spent on my double coated ones.

@Retrain12345 unfortunately no. While they are marketed as "dangerous" dogs, this one is terrified of anything hoover like. He doesn't even bark at it like normal dogs, he just runs. The only way he would hurt you is if you're in his way to freedom (or stole his food).

Cordless shark, whip round by the bed twice a day and a full hoover at night. Regular brushing would help but mine doesn’t tolerate it for long

I'm with you op. Summer is an absolute nightmare. I hoover with my trusty shark twice a day and it gets full pretty quickly. I used an undercoat comb (not sure what it's called) gets all the undercoat and another one for top coat. I do this a good few times a week and collect bag fulls but to be honest it doesn't make that much of a difference. I still have to hoover. My dogs watch me hoover then decide to play fight and I just see bits of hair fly around like tumble weeds, at that point the hoovers down and I give up. Until I'm sitting watching TV and I see some floof in the corner of my eye and i just have to get it. I have a retriver and gsd, so both white and black fur but the retriever malts sooooo much more.

We went on holiday last month. I packed the dogs away to kennels then hoovered manically before leaving ourselves. We came home a week later to find the usual drifts of dog tumbleweed in all the corners, despite the house lying totally empty in that time.

it's like one of those mythological punishments. Rolling a rock uphill forever, moving mountains of sand with a spoon, keeping dog hair off the carpet.

Hard floors are calling out for a robotic hoover that goes around every night while you are asleep and sweeps it all up. I think, anyway.

Combined with a robotic mop that has a dry/sweep function (I am alwayts amazed how much extra ours picks up). That can run during the day as it's quiet.

Oh my goodness thank you so very much for your detailed and wonderful replies and ideas! Too many to single people out - I realllly appreciate your time.

So I literally got a rubber broom this week and yes game changer. Esp the rug in the room we are in most and corners!

I brush her daily, barely anything comes off - probably already around the house! She's a cocker spaniel and I've just had her stripped and feathering trimmed short for summer. She hates brushing but I'm working on it as the matting in her ears and legs has worsened as she's got older and she's only 12 mths old.

Last summer she was a wee baby so I didn't notice any hair at all!

Will look into robotics however she sleeps downstairs and I think it would do her head I. Lol

She doesn't go upstairs at all and it shows but the cats do 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 one is very long haired but it's big clumps not piles and piles like the cheeky hound!

I think a certain amount I'll have to live with. And areas people me notice ie while sitting on downstairs loo, focus on!