My Duet does better at hair removal than any top loader I have ever used. I have no idea why. When washing blankets, I always have to wipe the gasket and door when finished. The dryer always catches the rest. But I ALWAYS use dryer sheets with blankets for this reason. They repel the hair much more vs softener or nothing at all. A quick run in the dryer should help, however extra wash time or an extra rinse will be no help.

I would use blankets/ or other pet bedding that's made with a fabric that doesn't cause pet hair to stick in the fibers so tightly, than before washing take them outside and shake them off.

I would also do a clean machine cycle on your washer.

I would use caution when using fabric softener or dryer sheets on pet supplies, as the perfumes are not good for animals

I do a rinse on the bulky cycle before I wash the dog bedding. My bulldog is allergic to everything so no dryer sheets or fabric softener. What doesn't get rinsed off in the wash gets caught by the dryer screen. I always check the drain after washing these as it seems to catch some fur too.

My cats sleep in our bed but they also have their own blankets. I don't wash our sheets or blankets with other items and use the hot water or allergen or sanitize cycle, depending on whether they're shedding or not. The cat fur bedding is washed about every week since I don't particularly like having a washer full of fur. I wipe down the drum, the gasket and the drain holes after each fur load. My Duet tells me when it needs a cleaning cycle. The Duet dryer takes the rest of the fur. After the initial drying cycle, I clean the lint filter then set the dryer another 15 minutes on low to continue to de-fur the load. Usually get the equivalent of at least a kitten out of it.

My wardrobe is 85% black. I double rinse clothes, then dry hairy stuff with dryer sheets, and sometimes I throw a rough towels to the dryer. I kind of feel like it abraids some of the hair off my clothes. Probably my imagination. I also buy pet hair rollers by the six pack at the wholesale club! Hey, it is well worth the inconvenience to have a houseful of cats, even for a clean freak like me.

MizLizzie, I have a house full of cats too.. and I also like to wear black. My black t-shirts look like angora sweaters :) Love that Moroseaz gets a kitten! Thanks everyone for the tips on cleaning the machine and using pet safe products.

Our old TL non-he washer had a filter that trapped dog hair, etc. The newer machines he do not, and it is left up to the dryer to hopefully remove it.

I have this problem with fleece, but can't use dryer sheets. Also, I hang fleece to dry (per instructions). We've only had cats for a year, so this is still kind of new to me!

I have two dogs, one cat, and a Duet. I wash their beds and blankets separate from our clothes. The amount of fur that comes out of them is amazing! I swear I could make another animal from the fur that collects on the window and gasket, but I've had no problems with it remaining on the fabric.

My boxers don't shed much but the bulldog has a ton of dander which freaks me out. Vaccuuming daily and washing his blanket everyday is a necessity. I can't imagine the work involved with long haired pets.

Alex Chicago, good for you for trying to educate people on feeding a wet diet to cats. My previous cats were fed kibble because the vets, at the time, said that was the most healthy option. Yes, 14 years of overpriced Science Diet kibble purchased at the vets office and I thought I was the best cat mom. And yes, my cat used to have UTIs! Vets are now starting to change but there are still plenty of old timers out there who don't give the new advice. When I got these new cat 8 years ago, I learned about grain free, even thought the vet thought it sounded silly. This was right after all those pets were dying from the tainted food so people were starting to pay attention to what they were buying. After months of the vet not being able to control my cat's IBD with medicine, a new vet said to put him on a grain free canned diet and if that didn't work to give him raw. He was better on canned, but he was still pretty bad. Well, on raw all his symptoms went away within 24 hours. Truly fascinating to see. I wasn't expecting it to work, but at least thought I should try everything. Seeing first hand how food is indeed medicine, I've become a more healthy eater too! The cats love the raw so much that when I do give them a can (his tummy is healed now so he can tolerate the occasional can with ease), they look at me like "Mom what did we do wrong? I thought you loved us?" And yes, Dr Pierson is quite convincing!!!

Having said all that, I can't imagine how much hair would be on my clothes if they weren't on raw!!!! :) I really only have one who sheds uncontrollably and he hates to be brushed. Vacuuming more often is something I should probably do (for many reasons!), so thanks all for that reminder.

I learned right away to feed wet and ditch the dry, but haven't made the switch to raw. It totally made a difference in the fur. SO SOFT. I adopted each one at around 5-6 months old, and they'd been fed kibble up until then. After a couple of weeks on wet food, their fur turned into silk.

My younger cat seems to be shedding her kitten coat. She's leaving tufts of it everywhere and rubbing against everything. We haven't gotten into the habit of brushing her, but we should! She gets hairballs, whereas my other cat never does.

I should use the lint roller on fleece before washing. That would help a ton.

I can't afford the tape that would be needed to get all the hair off :)

Pippiep, if you think you may ever want to feed them raw, my only advice would be to at least introduce a little now on a temporary basis so you have an easier time feeding it to them in the future if you should decide to. It's so different from what they are used to that older cats will often not even recognize it as food. That goes for other things too. Two of my cats won't touch freeze dried raw because they don't recognize anything dry being food.

With my bunch, who are the most finicky cats ever, I made the mistake of feeding them the same thing all the time when they were young because now it's almost impossible to change their food when needed ( the raw food I buy has a new recipe and they don't like it and they don't like anything else so I'm in my own little purgatory!).

Building - thank you for your reply and for seconding my post. Good to meet another raw feeder! And I must admit that everything I learned came from making mistakes, so there is no judgment. I had two cats leave me far too young due to food-related illness, and that's what jumpstarted all my research into alternative feeding before adopting my Siamese brothers in 2012. While some vets are coming around to raw feeding, there are still many who remain woefully ignorant and continue to prescribe and sell their high-margin snake oil (aka Science Diet). My current vet is for commercially prepared raw, but stops short of recommending a home-prepared or whole-prey diet, which is what my animals eat. That said, their exams and bloodwork come back so well that she can't argue the benefits.

Sometimes I tire of preparing the food, having to arrange friends to feed the cats any time we are gone for more than a 12-14 hours, educating said friends on the diet, etc., and think how much easier it would be to go back to a high-end kibble. Then I catch a glimpse of one of the cats in a ray of sunlight, fur shining, lean torso stretched out on the floor...and know I could never go back. Plus, the litter box! Oh my. Not having a stinking cat box is maybe the best benefit of all.

Thanks again, and hope your kits continue to thrive!

Alex C. I would love to feed them a whole prey diet because that would be the easiest thing in the world, but mine are so picky I would never know if they were all eating all the parts for a balanced diet. I've made my own food with a supplement mix, which is a huge pain, but I may have to go back to that now that Rad Cat has changed their product and my cats won't touch it. And yes, when I have to hire people to come feed my cats or when I'm at Whole Foods making sure the liver is fresh enough, I have fantasies of leaving out a bowl of Science Diet once a day :)

Surprisingly, I have two chunky cats but the other 3 are fit as fiddles. They don't have good teeth either, which is odd, but if they were on a whole prey diet, I'm sure they would. Oh, I'm with you on the litter box. I had forgotten how good I had it until I watched a neighbors cat while they were away.. gas mask please

I've always fed my cats as much dry as they want (Meow Mix) and a tablespoon of wet twice a day. My oldest guy is coming up 18 years old and the other one is over 10 years old. No health issues and they're both indoor/outdoor (as in they run around the house and come in the opposite side of the house). Unfortunately they also prefer to drink dirty rain water and pool water over the clean water in their clean water dish. The old dog was a chow-Australian Shepard mix and he died during the tainted dog food time but he was over 12 years old, maybe 14. Now HE could shed the equivalent of a cat so he visited the groomer every few weeks.