Written You can purchase an air cleaner. These devices changes the air in the area 3-4 times an hour which eliminates alot of airborne particles including dust and allergens.Check them them out at www.homeairfilters.caHow Do I Deal With Pet Hair Getting Everywhere?7/02/13 12:30pm As nearly anyone who cares for an animal can tell you, pet hair is a nuisance. It loves clinging to carpets and fabrics and mocks your silly attempts to vacuum it up. If you have cats (or some types of dogs), that hair also floats, settling down onto just about everything you own. Fuzzy Furball writes:Recently I adopted/rescued a 6 year old German Shepherd. She's adorable and has adapted to my place with relative ease. However, her breed should be renamed to German Shedder. I'm asking you and your readers for tips to remove pet hair from essentially everything. Hardwood Floors (I vacuum with an older model Oreck and minutes later there's hair again), clothes, car upholstery, to food and water bowls.Have some advice for Fuzzy Furball?

Do you have a problem that needs solving and want help from the Lifehacker community? and we might post it. The best questions are broad enough to apply to other people and have many possible answers (so that you can get lots of opinions from your fellow readers). super 8 light ii series ionic air purifierImages by FantasyStock (deviantART).room air conditioner purifier Am very grateful for your web reviews of air purifiers.car air purifier for smoke Could use some help narrowing the choices down by getting your opinion regarding my multiple pet situation. Due to doggies constant hair shedding, home requires vacuuming every day, or every other day! No carpet, well-insulated, renovated older home in poor air quality city, mild allergy sufferer owners.

Rooms 225-300 sf range (Home 2,000 sf). I actually enjoy "white noise" when I sleep, so "noisy" units not as much of a concern, but I have REAL concerns about filter replacement with tons of pet fur floating about. Thanks for any info you care to share. My son has a beautiful Siberian Husky, snow white with blue eyes, he is the ultimate "good boy," a very lovable canine pet. But he sheds sooooo much doggy hair. We dog-sit when our son goes on his frequent adventure trips. Please notice that air purifiers are not intended to substitute for a vacuum cleaner. They are designed to collect invisible small airborne particles so we don't breathe them. Dog hair/fur is mainly larger tufts that will fall to the ground, staying aloft only briefly. Air purifiers will not prevent pet hair from decorating furniture, clothing, car seats, and other surfaces. Dog hair will quickly clog a vacuum cleaner, which makes it easier not to vacuum. I have found that an inexpensive microfiber dust mop, the reversible kind with washable pads, is the best tool for dog hair.

You can quickly run it around the whole house, picking up a pile of hair, and escort it to the trash can. This will reduce time between vacuuming, and ease the inevitable vacuum dirt bin clean-out (less hair wrapped inside). Your no-carpet floors are perfect for the mop thing, carpet is the hardest for dog owners to keep clean. Microfiber Flip Mop at Amazon. The most important thing you want on your air purifiers is a permanent fiberglass prefilter screen. These were once common, but they were quite effective in extending main filter life. This hurt filter sales, so the pre-filter screens, which add to cost, began to disappear. Only a few models available today retain the filter screen. Prefilter screens like this are vacuumable and washable, collect pet hair well, and last almost indefinitely. Winix air purifiers provide a good example, they offer both the older style with fiberglass "screen door" prefilter (right image), or a cheaper version with no screen and just replaceable filters (left image).

Winix is a Korean-built value brand, offering low-priced air cleaners that substantially outperform Unfortunately, Winix has chosen to market their pricey "Ultimate Cassette" so as to negate the value proposition - users must buy the whole tray, including the fiberglass prefilter, each time they A simple workaround, which I use on most air purifiers, is to cut a rectangle of ordinary household window screen, available at big box home improvement stores, and place it in front of the other filters. You can browse the $288 One air purifier that does have the screen prefilter is the Rabbit Air BIOGS 2.0 SPA-625A (SPA-550A is slightly lower powered). Rabbit Air is an upscale importer which charges a premium for better customer service. BIOGS 2.0 is stylish and quiet, but may be a bit underpowered for your larger rooms. See my Rabbit-Air BIOGS 2.0 review: Rabbit Air BioGS 2.0 SPA-550A Rabbit Air BioGS 2.0 SPA-625A at Amazon. Another popular particle filter is the powerful Whirlpool AP51030K.

Whirlpool AP51030K has a coarse screen filter permanently built into the front cover. See Whirlpool AP51030K on my Whirlpool page; Amazon price is around $297; With your larger rooms, noise tolerance, and macro-particle (dog hair) focus, the Whirlpool might be the best fit of the three. Many pet owners attack hair shedding with increased grooming. My son lures his doggie near the waste basket, pets and pulls hair off by the hand-full during molting peaks. Amazon has dog grooming tools, Master Grooming Tools Stainless Steel Pet Stripper has 26 very good reviews and lasts longer. The FURminatordeShedding Tool for Dogs is wildly popular, with 6,500 buyer reviews averaging End Re: Best Air Purifier for Dog Hair, go to Home PageYour pets' constant shedding might cause you to pull out your hair, but giving their diet and grooming routine a makeover can help. A grooming session with my American Eskimo dog, Norman, always reminds me of a scene from "Terminator 2."

As I brush him, his long white hair seems to immediately (and ominously) replenish itself like the villain's limbs in the movie. To deal with his ever-growing -- and ever-shedding -- coat, I buy lint-roller refills in bulk. I vacuum, run the DustBuster, and push the Swiffer. And still, I spy hairs on couch cushions and clothes, as well as on things that never even get near him (my mascara wand!). I love Norman like crazy, but I often wonder what I was thinking when I (someone with compulsive cleaning tendencies and a dark wardrobe) chose a white fur ball out of all the dogs in the shelter years ago. The Pet Hair Takeover As long as there have been house pets, there have been owners grappling with pet hair. While some dogs and cats shed profusely only in spring and fall, "those that are indoors more often, like city dogs, shed all year," says veterinarian Emmy Pointer of the ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital, in New York City. All dogs and cats shed (save the hairless ones). Dogs with a double coat, which consists of a soft undercoat and a coarser topcoat, shed more often than single-coated breeds.

Those with single coats include poodles and Maltese (the dogs whose owners always say -- and in my experience, smugly -- "Oh, my dog has hair, not fur ..."). A pet may lose some of its coat in a stressful situation, but any noticeable, ongoing change in shedding patterns warrants a trip to the vet, since it could indicate an endocrine disease or a fungal condition, says Pointer. Rethinking Norman's Diet Although shedding is inevitable, pet owners don't have to succumb to hair-covered "cat lady" cliches. A high-quality pet food is the first step toward reducing fur loss. "The more digestible ingredients are in the food, the better the pet's coat will be," says Marc Morrone, host of "Ask Marc, The Petkeeper" on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius XM Channel 110. Along with many vets, he recommends food that lists meat as its first ingredient and doesn't include mysterious-sounding additives. "Anything you wouldn't eat yourself shouldn't be in the dog food." Morrone also suggests adding raw flaxseed oil to a pet's food -- one teaspoon for every 10 pounds of body weight.

You should talk to your vet before trying any nutritional supplement that promises to eliminate shedding, which -- aside from being scientifically unproven -- could be dangerous to pets that have preexisting medical conditions, says Pointer. Finding My Magic Solution While there may not be a miracle cure for shedding, there is a magic solution: the brush. It's easy to let a day -- or several days -- lapse between at-home grooming, but "brushing does two things," says Morrone. "It gets rid of any fur that's ready to come out, and it takes oil off the animal's skin and coats the fur that's there, making it more supple and less likely to fall out." A stainless steel comb works well for most pets. ), a short-bladed rake-style brush that pulls out the undercoat. Even its name makes it seem to have been created just for Norman. Along with changing his diet, I've made a nightly "furmination" as much of a habit as brushing my teeth. Gradually, I've seen the amount of fur removed with each session reduce from a mountain to more of a molehill -- and with it, my frustration.