If you want to get obsesive (that would be me) a slicker brush works great at getting their hair out of or off of the carpets. It's not for the faint of heart though as it requires hands and knees work. I only do this occasionally as it's a real pain-literally especially in the knees and back.
My poor vacuum!!
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Yesterday I bathed Chandler with the Rapid Bath well it must have really loosened things up because when I brushed him last night I had a plastic grocery bag filled and bursting at the seams. I was amazed because I had just brushed him out the day before.
That fun blowing coat stage. I dread the day it happens to Zak, he has such a thick coat it will take days to brush out. Maggie is blowing coat now and I have a few tumble weeds. I recall once brushing Katie daily for a week or more when she blew her coat, it was short but thick. I used to know of some one that would take your dogs hair and knit a hat for you.
Well...after weeks of us going thru the same thing here with Earnhardt tumbleweeds,I feel your pain girl! This heat here has prompted a huge blowing of coat with him.
Brian even took the vacumn cleaner to him one day last week.Earnhardt totally enjoyed that one on one time,even if it meant a loud vacumn being run over him.
As far as Trapp & Jasper,they have not blown coats.I don't see the shedding issue,only if I am brushing them.But between Earnhardt & Bumper...golly I could vacumn till the cows come home,and still not get it all.
Brian even took the vacumn cleaner to him one day last week.Earnhardt totally enjoyed that one on one time,even if it meant a loud vacumn being run over him.
As far as Trapp & Jasper,they have not blown coats.I don't see the shedding issue,only if I am brushing them.But between Earnhardt & Bumper...golly I could vacumn till the cows come home,and still not get it all.
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Well who'ld have thought - Dyson are sending a replacement hose to change over the one with the little sheltie teeth marks! Although as it turns out I took off the vacuum head and inside was this HUGE wad of fur so me thinks that was what was stopping the suction! Even a Dyson can't handle a Sheltie shedding episode.
I have done this, too. I'll take the hose off, and there will be dust and sheltie fur caught in it. I take the fur and dust out, and then it works fine again.
I still want a roomba - the one they make for pet hair, but I'm trying to put all my extra money in savings for a new vehicle (expect me to have a new vehicle in about 5 years!
).Only three carpeted rooms left here...Russ's room (off limits to pets), the craft room (off limits to pets), and Alan's cave...anything goes there.
Everything else is hardwood or tile, so I take trips around the room more than once a day gathering up the tumbleweeds. I just finished brushing Sasha, Emma, and Newton and a tiny bit on Indy...and then I was dust mopping and sweeping and chasing the fur....
Figaro is blowing coat and I'll get him outside. Indy just wasn't comfortable lying down so I passed on trying to brush him just now.
Everything else is hardwood or tile, so I take trips around the room more than once a day gathering up the tumbleweeds. I just finished brushing Sasha, Emma, and Newton and a tiny bit on Indy...and then I was dust mopping and sweeping and chasing the fur....
Figaro is blowing coat and I'll get him outside. Indy just wasn't comfortable lying down so I passed on trying to brush him just now.
I feel everyone's pain as well. I am getting gobs of hair during daily brushing and vacuuming daily.
I don't have an outfit that isn't cover with dog fur and Ron...............bless his little heart...........washed the kitchen towels the other day with a bath towel that had dried MMM after a bath and then I had to wash the kitchen towels TWICE to get the fur out of it!!! Not happy with him!
I don't have an outfit that isn't cover with dog fur and Ron...............bless his little heart...........washed the kitchen towels the other day with a bath towel that had dried MMM after a bath and then I had to wash the kitchen towels TWICE to get the fur out of it!!! Not happy with him!
I feel everyone's pain as well. I am getting gobs of hair during daily brushing and vacuuming daily.
I don't have an outfit that isn't cover with dog fur and Ron...............bless his little heart...........washed the kitchen towels the other day with a bath towel that had dried MMM after a bath and then I had to wash the kitchen towels TWICE to get the fur out of it!!! Not happy with him!
hahahahaha I hate when my mom accidentally mixes up and puts a dog towel in the closet with my bath towels i'll be in the midst of drying off and wonder why im suddenly getting furrier and furrier by the second
I feel everyone's pain as well. I am getting gobs of hair during daily brushing and vacuuming daily.
I don't have an outfit that isn't cover with dog fur and Ron...............bless his little heart...........washed the kitchen towels the other day with a bath towel that had dried MMM after a bath and then I had to wash the kitchen towels TWICE to get the fur out of it!!! Not happy with him!
Smudge and his nosey self has been sticking his long snout into my laundry basket and rummaging through it. I found myself walking out the door to work only to discover that a puff of fur was on the shoulder of my shirt.
The good thing about having shelties in different colors: you know who the culprit is!