Jan
Posted : 8/28/2006 10:34:33 PM
Ah, well, during coat blowing season I cover the chairs and sofa, and then when I want to sit, I UNCOVER them.
I admire your tenacity. I used to do this until people started calling my couch "ghost couch" due to the giant white sheet I always had over it. It did sort of have that "couch dressed up for Halloween" look with the sheet, and since it was an odd shape, I never could find a traditional cover for it. Also, when people came over, I didn't want to take the sheet off in front of them, because then all the hair would fall off the sheet on the floor. So I'd just take them into the den, where I have a nice, distressed leather couch that doesn't get the same kind of fur build up.
Ironically, my living room couch was supposed to be my one "good" piece of furniture -- a ridiculously expensive gift from a galpal with too much money and no pets -- and I had this fantasy of showing it off when people came over. So eventually, I gave up the sheet. But once I did that, it mysteriously developed a few dog-claw-shaped tears across the top, and some tiny cat claw holes on the arms, not to mention a perpetual coat of fur that even the most expensive vacuum never quite eradicates. So much for "expensive furniture," huh?
On the plus side, it's a nice cream color that matches two out of three of my pets, so it doesn't LOOK bad (though if you sit on it, you get furry butt). On the down side, I now have to keep boxes piled on it so Jessie doesn't use it as a springboard to the window when "intruders" walk by on the street. I have double thick plexiglass windows, but who wants to take chances? One dog through the window is enough in any lifetime!
I do find those giant rolling lint brushes for furniture work pretty well in a fix. My real problem with shedding is the car, though, which Jessie spends inordinate amounts of time in. I have a whole 'nother dog's worth of fur in my car, because it just...migrates. Too bad I can't teach the dog to vacuum, huh?