Short, dense coat · hair on my clothes, constantly
Short-coated dog hair on your clothes (picked up from the bed)
Coats like this: Labrador, French Bulldog, Bulldog, Beagle, Rottweiler, Boxer, Great Dane, Doberman, Staffy, Kelpie, Chihuahua, Pug, Greyhound, Whippet, Vizsla, Weimaraner, Pointer, Dalmatian, Mastiff, Basset Hound. Short, dense coats shed short, stiff hairs that work their way into fabric.
Clothes pick up hair on contact with a surface the dog has lain on. Fix the surface and the clothes mostly fix themselves.
Tonight, lay any washable fabric you own over where the dog lies on the bed, or close the bedroom door. Nothing short of a closed door keeps a whole bed clean for long.
What you can stop doing
- Vacuuming floors to fix clothes. Hair on clothes comes from where you sit and sleep, not from the floor.
What comes next
- Before you leave the house: wet your palms and wipe down your clothes, top to bottom. Faster than a roller and never runs out.
- Laundry: run clothes in the dryer on no heat for a few minutes before washing, lint filter emptied. It shakes hair into the filter instead of the drain.
- Brush with whatever you have for now — a damp rubber glove or even a damp hand lifts some loose coat — and see the buying section for what suits this coat, starting at two or three times a week. Loose hair on the brush is hair that doesn't land in the house. If the skin looks pink afterwards, you're pressing too hard or going too often.
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The goal isn't zero hair. It's less cleaning that actually makes a difference.
If the shedding has suddenly got much heavier, or there are bald patches, red skin or a lot of scratching, that's a vet visit first, not a cleaning plan.