How to get cat hair out of the carpet!!

[Englishbird]

One of my cats is long haired and the flat i've just moved into has a deeper pile carpet than my old one.  I have a fairly new dyson vaccum cleaner which is not touching the cat hair!! I have to get down on my knees and rub the carpet in circles to get the cat hair up.  This is exhausting and neverending. 

Anyone - any ideas, you'd be saving my back!!

[Robinia]

Doesn't your Dyson have the Turbo brush attachment? If not you can buy one, bit expensive but worth it.  I have a long haired dog & couldn't manage without mine!

[PurplePixie]

I thought I'd bought the ideal Dyson for the job a few years back....then a friend had a Dyson Animal delivered to my house & I couldn't help but try it on my carpets. It did such an amazing job that I got straight on the phone & ordered myself one. No, I don't work for Dyson!!!!

I always thought they were a waste of money & that you are just paying for the name, but I have to admit that I can't compare it to anything I've tried before & my floors are a real cat hair magnet!

[Bottom]

I do the same as in a pickle, I use a bowl of warm water put my hand in a rubber glove then go along the carpet, Its the best way my carpet come good as new!!!

[natalie_1982]

I'm lucky as my cat is short haired and a normal hoover does the job, but my dad has three cats, two of which are long haired.  He bought a Dyson and said he didn't realise exactly how much hair they lose or how much the carpet needed desparately dehairing!  He said that the Dyson is fab and picks up hairthat you couldn't even see, i.e. it still picked up hair from the carpet after it had been vaccumed once by a normal cleaner.

[Englishbird]

thanks everyone, my friend has the dyson specifically for pet hair, so i might borrow it and see if it makes any difference, definately worth an investment if it does!! otherwise - i guess i'll just have to stay down on my hands and knees! - pets eh, who'd have em :)

[topman9thnov]

get shut of the cats.

[The Tiggster]

It's amazing what you can find out if you look. I wanted to buy a Dyson as I have very long hair (but I'm not a cat!!) & it gets caught in the carpet. The only way to get it up is to break your back like Englishbird has to do. My mind is made up the Dyson Animal does what it says on the tin. I'm away onto comet.com!

Thank you ! :0)

[smudge]

I wouldn't be without my 'SEBO' upright vacuum cleaner, it moves 'anything & everything'

[HenryAdams45]

A traditional method is to get  a normal paint roller and put on some hard-wearing tape with the sticky side out. Run that over your carpets (but don't look what gets stuck on the roller).

Henry

[shazzabell]

You can buy a 'pet mitt' by JML for about �3 in Poundstretcher. These are excellent for removing hair from carpets.