Twilight is the softest of cats but boy does she shed hair. I just vacuumed a few

[applegrove]

weeks ago and there are already tufts of hair all over the house. Does anyone else have a cat with very, very soft hair that sheds? I suppose I should start brushing her.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. We could vacuum daily and not keep up

The cats are not a big problem. The worst is the GSD. She sheds the equivalent of our Shih-Tzu every week!

[Irishonly]

14. We have two GSD

One is a mix and long haired while the other is pure bred and almost completely black. I vacuum in the mornings and by the next morning it looks like I have done anything for weeks. I accepted the fact that if you have pets you are going to have pet hair everywhere. I still can't figure out why when you have a solid piece of furniture on the carpet, pet hair accumulates under it.

[meti57b]

2. My cats don't shed at all. It's about the cat litter *all* over the house......

How does that stuff travel so far, so fast?!

[applegrove]

3. I have a top for my cat litter with an opening for the cat. And there is a plastic tray

with grooves in it right outside the entrance on the floor so that cat's feet are pretty clean. Still she manages to leave kitty litter all around. Grrrrr!

[meti57b]

4. hmm m, I forgot about plastic trays .. with a grill work on top for the litter to fall through?

I think litter box covers tend to keep the cat box stinkier and the cat may not want to use the litter box.

I did get some kind of plastic mat with a kind of small cellular surface to trap the litter. They work pretty good, but problem is they are not water-proof, and one of my cats often doesn't realize he has his little rear-end hanging over the edge outside of the box.

Walking across my floor, I just try to pretend I'm at the beach.

I will look for the plastic trays with the grill-work top for the litter to fall through.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The unusually warm weather seems to have triggered massive shedding

on the part of my three beasts. Each has different fur texture - Jeoffry has short, smooth fur; Milo's fur is medium-length, silky and extremely soft; and Pixie's is fluffy and prone to matting. And right now they are shedding enough fur to build several more cats with. It's everywhere.

I actually got a little book that explains how to make crafts with cat fur, so maybe I can actually put it to use instead of letting it accumulate in clumps under the radiators. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/crafting-with-cat-hair-kaori-tsutaya/1100184559

[meti57b]

6. LOL!!!.....

I guess I shall have to look for a book on uses for "used" cat litter!

[ginnyinWI]

8. same here

See my post below.

My daughter gave me that book for Christmas! Kind of as a joke, really. I don't think I'll be making finger puppets out of cat fur--oh well.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I brush Kidley ever morning, but he is shedding so much that

I'm surprised he's not bald.

[ginnyinWI]

7. yes!

My longhair has very soft, fine black fur (angora style). When I comb her I don't get much fur in the comb at all. Where it goes is it falls right out onto the floor and collects in little "tumbleweeds" on the stairs or wherever. Not much I can do about it but sweep them up.

But our calico sheds year-round. And now she's doing her spring shed so brushing her is like starting a snowstorm of fur. She doesn't leave balls of fur, but it collects where she sleeps and onto the brush--a big ball of it per day right now.

The third, a brown tabby doesn't seem to shed much at all, except for once a year, right now. And I'm brushing her every day too. Getting a nice strong bicep!

The alternative is coughed-up hairballs. By them, not me!

[jsmirman]

9. Have you tried "the furminator"???

It is truly incredible how much fur/dander that device can remove during brushing.

My guy, unfortunately, has a firm time limit on how long he will tolerate brushing, but the product, which you can usually get for a pretty good deal, brushes away fur like nothing I have ever used.

[Warpy]

10. You need a Furminator

http://www.1800petmeds.com/FURminator+deShedding+Tool+for+Cats-prod658144.html

They're pricey but for cats with a heavy undercoat, they can't be beat.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. A third Furminator endorsement.

It works better than anything we've ever used. Truly effective. We can get - literally - two bags of fur off the GSD every time we brush her.

[eridani]

13. Sounds like it could be spun and knitted. n/t