Unless and until I see a cloud of dog hair roll by me, I vacuum the house once each week – usually on Mondays. We spend our weekends running around or making gooey eyes at each other, so I don’t want to “spoil the fun”, and during the week the dogs are usually wrestling in the middle of the floor while I throw cookies at them.
In other words, Monday clears out the whole week’s worth of dog hair.
On Sunday, when Kelly came over, she noticed her allergies kicking up – likely due to dog hair floating around in the air. I reminded myself that I should give the rugs/floors a good going-over when Monday rolled around, since spring is here and the dogs will shortly begin to shed more rapidly. Might as well get things scoured now and make it easier to keep it up later, right?
Having just finished vacuuming the first floor, and having had to empty the canister on the vacuum TWICE during the half hour it took, I am now reminded that, in spring, it is necessary to vacuum at LEAST three times each week. During the winter, I’m lucky to fill the canister half way.
I hope we didn’t kill Kelly. Yeeesh. I’m kind of grossed out, now.
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Cat hair comprises 98% by volume of our vacuum’s capacity each time we empty it out. It comes out to a couple of kilograms of grey fluff, mixed with crumbs, dirt, and lint. If I had the wherewithal to make a cat hair sweater, we’d have enough in just over a year, I’m sure. Less, if we pet and brushed them more, and vaccummed more.
Hair’s a protein, so it can’t be composted, can it?
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