Does cat hair annoy you? No, is my answer and I’ll tell you why. I am used it. It never really bothered me but I am completely used to it, now. I treat it the same way I treat dust – ignore it.
I am joking. I don’t ignore it neither am I concerned by it.That is the key to dealing with cat hair: get used to it and treat it as a part of life, a very minor, almost insignificant part.
The places where cat hair usually finds itself are:
- on the bed
- along skirting boards and in nooks and crannies where breezes make the hair strands settle
- on chairs and sofas
Hoovering obviously deals with 2 and 3 while I have special brush that is extremely effective for picking up cat hair from the bed. I use the brush as it is quiet so I can do it, if needs be, while Charlie, my cat, is still on the bed. He gets a brush sometimes too.
Some cats like to be hoovered!
A lot of people don’t adopt a cat because of the hair they produce. They don’t like it flying around the home. I can see that but it is a shame because humans produce a lot of stuff that flies around the home too. What about human skin cells? We have about 1.6 trillion skin cells and we shed about 1 million every day. They all end up around the house, on shelves and near skirting boards and on picture frames. I think we contribute nicely to the things that need to be hoovered up.
Humans should get over the idea that a home is like a picture perfect possession and start treating it as a home.
The problem is about attitude. A lot of people seek “the dream” that they are fed by media 24/7. Included in that mythical dream is a wonderful, permanent show home. It has to be perfect all the time as if no one lives in it. It is a measure of their success. You’ve “made it” when you have the perfect show home with two kids, a dog and a gorgeous fluffy, white, Persian cat, with a large 4×4 people carrier parked outside next to the permanently lush, green, beautifully manicured front lawn adjacent to the pink roses.
Please get over it and start seeing a home as a home with all the usually defects. Defects including cat hair add character to a home. It is lived in and a cat adds soul to the home.
You’ll find that people who are considering adopting a cat search the internet for “cat shedding” or “Non-shedding cat breeds“. They are looking for a cat that does not shed hair. All cats shed hair unless there is almost no hair – one of the hairless catsย – and even then there is some downy hair. The Devon Rex is meant to be the cat breed with the lowest levels of shedding but that is anecdotal.
Shedding takes place due to increased levels of ambient light in the summer months not due to increased heat. Steps can be taken to minimise hair shedding. What about regular grooming? That is good for your cat and good for you if you are ambivalent about cat hair around the home.
Do single coated cats shed less hair than double coated cats and do short haired cats shed less hair than long haired cats? I don’t think it is worth asking those questions and in any case the difference won’t be significant.
The bottom line is to accept cat hair without question and groom your cat routinely. You can forget about anything else to do with cat hair. And remember the human skin cells.
the neuropathy/pain was there from day one. not fun, but i truly do prefer to be lighthearted. ๐ get back to you soon…
Hi Caroline. Hope the ribs get together real soon. I suspect they might get a bit uncomfortable after a a few days when the nerves start to wake up.
There’s not much choice in cat carers here. One expects people who work everyday in that job to be adequately competent but I was wrong. There is no licensing or qualifications for the job and anybody can do it. As for the Vets that incompetence is pretty common and reporting them would only be a waste of time. The way it works here is by word of mouth. It soon gets around which is a good or bad vet. The Vet who recommended the Swedish cat carers is the same one who bungled the treatment of my cats, so I stay away from that trio, and tell people about them. I don’t know of any way to check their habits and or understanding of hygiene, except by bitter experience. A recommendation from a Vet should be useful, but oy wasn’t that way at all. One duck recommends another duck. . I now have a new Vet who is much closer to home. She is a Professor in Veterinary matters. My new cat carer is not a door-to-door vector of disease and things are looking up. Both the first Vet and the Swedes are very expensive, but that is no guarantee of competence of course, pretty soon that Vet will be looking at an empty waiting room and the Swedes sitting at home looking at a phone that never rings. But before that there will be a long trail of sick or dead pets. The attitude here seems to be ” They are only animals. People have the right to work and earn a living”. The government animal quarantine facilities are I suppose adequate so long as it doesn’t rain. They use a lot of pretty potent disinfectant and lots of hosing down, but it floods when it rains heavily. None of my cats got sick there.
Quats are effective in preventing the spread of many parasitic diseases which was the main problem at that time. It works at very dilute concentrations and I don’t see any bad effects on my cats, and they don’t tear up my hands and clothes like bleach does. I have just been recommended SAVLON but I can’t find any.
Harvey, Mr. H.
How much bkgrnd do you have in micro, cuz i’m guessing that either you are playing for a fool or you travel too much. ๐ We love you, btw!