How To Remove Cat Hair From Everywhere: A Cleaning Guide

Easy ways to remove cat hair from various surfaces without dissentious them, or your true cat's ego.

We all beloved our kitties, those fickle beasts. But sometimes, don't you wish they'd pull their weight around the house a niggling bit more?

All that litter scooping, feather angling, and abiding snuggling is all fine and well, only information technology'south really cleaning up all that cat hair that starts to become a flake tiresome. Proficient thing they're so darn cute.

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The following compilation of age-old tips and tricks from cat lovers (aka cat hair wranglers) tin assistance yous regain your sanity - and your computer keyboard.

For removing cat pilus from hard surfaces such as hardwood or vinyl floors, countertops, desks, ceiling fans, tabletops or various other hard surfaces:

  • Invest in some Swiffer Heavy Duty Pet products. They're a total life (and time!) saver.
  • Dust difficult surfaces. Not only can the Swiffer Pet Heavy Duty Duster extend to reach those bad-mannered places, but its special fibers trap and lock in dust and pet hair.
  • Have a quick sweep once a day. Fine, every other mean solar day at to the lowest degree! The Swiffer Heavy Duty Pet Dry Sweeping Cloths are perfect for quickly sweeping without having to mess with a dustbin since the cat pilus sticks direct to the cloths, which you tin then remove and toss direct in the trash when you're done.
  • Run a wet mop over hard floor surfaces one time a week. The Swiffer Heavy Duty Pet Wet Mopping Cloths save y'all the trouble of having to haul out buckets of h2o and detergent, providing a hassle-free solution to flooring mopping. They're condom for all types of finished floors. The moisture mopping cloths are also disposable, leaving your floors hairless and your hands-gratis when you're done. Also great for pet messes!

For removing cat hair from textile, including carpet, upholstered article of furniture, clothes, bedding or (non-leather) car interiors:

  • Curtain your feline's favorite lounge spot in removable fabric. Cover upwards upholstered areas where your cat likes to luxuriate (and shed) with blankets or towels — or something fancier if you'd prefer! (Your cat probably would.) While this technique is admittedly non the most aesthetically appealing, there's a reason that everyone does information technology. You tin simply toss that coating or towel directly into the washer every few days, easily managing cat hair build-upwards.
  • Get artistic with your hair removal techniques. Dryer sheets (sometimes slightly dampened), pumice stones, lint rollers, and duct record all piece of work wonders for removing hair from various textile surfaces. Dryer sheets are great for rug and furniture, pumice stones on carpet, and lint rollers or duct tape on, well, just about anything.
  • Suck information technology up, buttercup. Vacuuming regularly obviously helps with cat pilus. Only here'due south another fob! Try using a spray canteen to lightly mist your carpet with water, so use a broom to sweep up clumps of cat hair before running the vacuum. If you're worried about carpet aroma from cat hair, sprinkle some blistering soda onto the carpet after sweeping only before vacuuming.
  • Switch up your route. Try vacuuming cat hair in alternating directions for the about constructive results (and the silliest carpet patterns when you're done).

  • The squeegee: a cat lover's best friend. Not only does this device remove adorable wet nose prints from windows, but you lot tin can too use information technology to rake the cat hair off of any surface. Keep ane in your motorcar!

  • Eliminate electrical accuse with anti-static sprays. Electric charge is what causes all that cat hair to stick to your material surfaces. Anti-static spray also helps future cat hair from re-sticking. You can make your ain anti-static spray by mixing ii tablespoons of liquid fabric softener with one cup of h2o in a spray bottle — which will smell nice too!

    • When doing the laundry — for example, that towel you keep on the burrow for your kitty to sit on — yous can spray some vinegar on a sock or rag and toss information technology in the dryer with said towel to remove static from information technology. Don't worry, the vinegar smell will misemploy once everything's stale.
  • Add moisture to the hair. Clammy safety kitchen gloves or a moist sponge tin can exist effective methods of coaxing cat hair off of fabric surfaces, causing it to dodder upward and making it easier to remove. Basically like you're giving your couch a spa treatment.
  • Add moisture to the air. Yes, you read that right — information technology'south non a typo. Using a humidifier within your domicile tin can prevent true cat hair from sticking to fabric surfaces.

Once you've gone through this extensive checklist of how to best remove cat hair from your home, relish the — temporary! — hairball free zone. But wait only a meow-ment. You've got to be kitten me. The hair is back already?! Yeah, every bit long as yous've got a feline friend as a housemate, those fluff clumps will keep regenerating between your sofa cushions and on the bottom of your slippers Effort to work these cleaning practices into a weekly routine to prevent cat-astrophic hair accumulation. Hey, don't say your cat never gave you anything. At least not to its face up.