OK so I posted about the shedding - since I'm gonna hafta live with that - now I'll try posting on peoples carpet hair removal tricks.

I grabbed the shedding blade n ran it over the carpet AFTER vacuuming n I pulled up about a dogs worth of hair on 1/2 the rooms carpet lol.

My carpet hair removal tip is to remove the carpets.

And dodge the tumblehairs.

Remove the carpet Mike......hardwood floors are better anyway.

Get a good vacuum. Our old one gave out last week with all the dog hair, so we bought a Dyson at Costco. It came with an attachment just for getting dog fur off the furtiture. What a difference - I filled half a garbage sack full of dog hair and dirt, and that was after I'd already vacuumed most of the house just that morning. Gross. I even vacuumed the dog.

QUOTing Jeff Dillard: Get a good vacuum. Our old one gave out last week with all the dog hair, so we bought a Dyson at Costco.END

I've heard great things about those vacuum cleaners. Can I ask you how much it was?

I bought a dyson animal dc14 version. What a great vacuum!! Got mine off of ebay for about $450 (included shipping) versus 549 in most stores.

$$$. I think it was $450. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I just remember that Costco and Sam's had them for about $100 less than comparable models anywhere else. Sam's was cheaper than Costco, but for an older model and without the dog fur attachment.

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I bought a dyson animal dc14 version.

Yeah, that's the one we got, though the Costco one's are white and called "full kit" or something similar - but it was the same as the "animal" except the color.

I have hardwood floors in the office and dining area, and tile in the rest of the house, the bedrooms are carpet. My dog is "ok" on the tile, initial traction can cause his hind legs to slide sideways, but any quick movement on the hardwood floors result in a dog that should learn how to skate. He's usually in one of the carpeted rooms or on the rug in the tiled living room. When he walks from the carpeted master bedroom to the hardwood floored office he needs to go thru the bathroom... he walks along the outside by the wall, runs to the bathroom floor mats and then into the office, I'm not sure why he has such a hard time with the bathroom tile, he's fine in the rest of the house. We've slowly started to replace the carpet in the carpeted rooms (the office and dining area was carpet till we went wood), it's just scary to run a blacklight over some of the carpet in this house - we are the 2nd owners and moved in a year after it was built, in that year the previous owners dog made a huge mess by the looks of it.

I'll look into the Dyson, I think we have a Miele or something like that right now, it does OK but obviously not good enough or I wouldn't be able to run the shedding blade over the carpet and pick up so much hair.

When I was about 7 or 8 we had a house with a long (30+ft) hallway when you came in the front door, completely tiled, and a sliding door at the other end of the hallway leading to the back porch area. Our dog (some type of mutt with a hint of GSD in it) would run around the outside of the house, run in the front door, slide all the way down the hallway n out the back sliding door.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Actually, the Dyson vacum cleaner was not well rated on Consumer Reports. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
Just an FYI.......