Adulting

Robot vacuum. We programmed it for morning and evening cleanup so the built up is okish. You have to accept that this is your life meow

Easy, just make your entire existence about constantly cleaning. But seriously, we just do what we can and the rest is what it is.

you think four cats are bad. I have one golden retriever!!!

I have a Collie. I just keep getting the most expensive vacuums I can until all the hair inevitably binds to our pores and turns the whole family feral.

My fiance sheds more hair than the 3 cats. Can't be angry at the cats when she's worse.

You gotta up your hair removal tools game if you haven’t already!

We have two cats, we vacuum once a week, and brush them every two weeks, and the fur buildup is really not that noticable.

We also have them on a vet diet which has been incredibly good for their skin and fur, so they don't seem to shed as much.

They're trained not to go up on the countertops and cabinets to prevent fur getting into food. They do it when I'm not around, but it still reduces fur up there.

It probably scales up linearly for 4 cats, so vacuum twice a week and brush them weekly.

I have Golden. I just accepted that, robot vacuum help a little but fur in the coffee is just part od morning routine

Robot vacuum.

I hired a cleaner lol.

Increase your vacuuming frequency and get a robo-vac for daily cleanup of drifting fur if possible. A good attachment for cleaning furniture really becomes the biggest factor when buying a new one. Also you'll want those tape rollers (buy the multi-pack from Costco) to de-fur your clothes before going out alongside pretty much abandoning black clothing. A lily brush is great for collecting fur from the fabrics that really hang on to it.

If they'll tolerate it, brushing the cats more frequently also is great for reducing how much floats free.

A quality vacuum. Robot or otherwise. Get something with a good HEPA filter and schedule a clean every other day in common areas, Living rooms, bedrooms, wherever they hang out. Even just a couple minutes hand vacuuming the couch every other day will help with hair build up.

Dust surfaces frequently as well. That one i can get away with once a week but your mileage may vary.

Live with it. Comes with the territory.

Badly :-) Two golden retrievers create a lot of hair every day and at some point you just learn to live with it. Even if you regularly clean then there will be fur tumbleweeds behind and underneath everything. It really helps having hard flooring through the ground floor of the house (my dogs don't go upstairs), as that's easier to keep clean, and regular grooming reduces but certainly doesn't eliminate the shedding.

People have said that a good vaccuum cleaner helps, which is true, but my last Dyson (pet edition) got so clogged with fur that the motor caught fire! Now using a Henry vaccuum which seems to be working pretty well.

We have a labrador. He gets brushed with a Furminator brush every few weeks, and we vacuum EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. Otherwise the shedding is out of control.

We discovered shortly after we adopted him that I am allergic to dogs, something I never noticed growing up with dogs, likely because my family's house was larger than our small apartment. So now the solution is being better about cleaning, as well as a daily dose of zyrtec for the life of our dog.

sorry but how does it get in the food

i recently bought a clipper set for my cat. he's an orange tabby & maine coon mix and he is huge. medium haired but let me tell you... the amount of freaking fur that is on everything all the time!! i brush him, comb him. i vacuum, i sweep. tried the clippers on him and he sits for a bit to let me do it but then scurries off. so i have to keep chasing him around to get as much fur as he'll let me. he gets mats really easily too. scared to give him a bath, which would honestly help a ton. he's just so finicky and won't sit still to save my life. i wake up with fur in my hair, eyelids and even my mouth. it gets in my food and drinks, and you can just see strands floating around. no material of clothing i own is without his fur. i just want to be free.

Make sweaters. Survive the winter.

Get a pair of gloves like these: https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Version-Pet-Grooming-Glove/dp/B01N9KSITZ/

My cat loves to be rubbed down with these gloves and they accumulate a massive amount of fur every session.

I have 9 cats, several of them very fluffy. They generate quite a lot of fur.

First, I keep cat grooming brushes everywhere I spend much time (desk, couch, bed) and when a cat is within reach I brush them. They enjoy it greatly (can take some training, and some of them only like it on some body parts) and it helps enormously with reducing the amount of fur that ends up here, there and everywhere (also it makes petting them nicer as they shed less when stroked).

Incidentally, if you keep the fur collected by the brush it can be felted into toy balls or other items (see "Crafting with Cat Hair" and other cat fur crafting guides), and if you want to make a drop-spindle you can spin it into yarn that you can knit with (this works best with long-hair cats and underside fur which is softer and more flexible than the topcoat).

Second, I have no carpet anywhere in the house, so fur that the brushing doesn't get tends to collect as fluffy balls in corners where the air currents push it, so my regular sweeping and vacuuming pick it up easily.

Third, I have low-nap area rugs in a few rooms. Loose fur tends to collect on them much more than on the bare floors, which tends to reduce the amount of fur loose in a room, and vacuuming them frequently is faster and easier than vacuuming the whole room (I usually vacuum the rug, then use the hose attachment to quickly run around the perimeter of the room to collect fur and other dust.

Last, select a clothing washer that does a good job removing fur from clothing. In my experience front-loaders that use minimal water are pretty terrible at removing fur, it just gets balled up and sticks to the clothing. I prefer top-loaders that use plenty of water as they seem to do a better job removing fur. I know that increases water use, so it might not be desirable in some locations, so if you are in a place where water use needs to be restricted it might be worth doing some research to discover what low-water machines do the best job with fur.

Robot vacuum. Dusting all the time. I mean dusting every single surface that isn’t vertical once a week. That includes windows, doors, molding, blinds, fans, lighting, etc. I also don’t let my pets on the furniture and they’re totally ok with it. People who let their dogs on their couch have a couch that smells, and I don’t want to sit on it. Also, furniture used by animals age more quickly. I don’t like replacing big expensive items. It is wasteful. Animals have their own beds etc. It’s good for them to have something that is theirs.

Embrace the chaos

When I was young we had 3 cats. One had really puffy fur. We just kind of existed alongside the fur. There's nothing you can do about it. You just have to coexist. I think it's a part of having pets.

Roomba and chomchom

I solved it by getting a dog that doesn't shed.

We have to get her groomed every 6 weeks, though or else she turns into Fluff McMuffin.

Sweep, vacuum often. If you have carpet theres a tool like this I used that really made vacuuming much easier https://www.amazon.com/FURemover-Hair-Remover-Carpet-Rake/dp/B000EFDOOA/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=carpet+scraper&qid=1687500477&sr=8-16