Don’t let the kitties sleep higher up on the bed than your chest.
Change the bed sheets daily.
Get in the habit of not touching your face with your hands without first washing them (your hands that is, not the kitties).
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I sing the praise of The Furminator .
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Absitivly, posilutely! Saw this mentioned on another thread, bought one (outrageous price, though) and be damned if it doesn’t get tons of hair that never got with a regular brush. Absolutely amazing.
My Bengals love the brush and are just so-so with the Furminator, but tolerate it. You have to use it very lightly so as not to scratch the skin, and I can’t use it on their bellies, as guess it hurts their nipples.
Highly recommend it too.
My problem with the cats is cat hair in my eyes. My husband and I live in the same house, interact pretty much the same with the cats, and I get hairs in my eyes every day, and he doesn’t. I don’t get it. Oh well. What can you do? (Other than getting rid of the cats and cleaning your house top to bottom and never having cats again, but that ain’t happening.)
[QUOTE=alice_in_wonderland]
I have a LARGE amount of cat hair in my nose.
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That’s how it started for Selina, Julie, Lee, Eartha and Michelle.
Other than shutting the cats out of the room (which you’ve said you’re not willing to do) there are a few things that could help with the cat-fur-up-the-nose-syndrome.
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vaccuum, vaccuum, vaccuum. We have two cats and a rabbit (although none sleep with us), and there’s a lot of fur. I change the vaccuum cleaner bag about once a week because it’s full of fur.
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Try an air purifilter in the bedroom. Change the filter regularly.
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Keep the sheets changed, especially the pillow cases. Use fabric softner in the rinse, as it might help to repel any cat fur.
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Brush the cats, brush the cats, brush the cats. I would suggest about two or three times per week (especially during the change of seasons, or after any “scare” they might have, since this is when they will loose a lot of fur anyway).
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Make sure that the air in the house/apartment isn’t dry. With all the humidity over most of the country, this shouldn’t be a problem in the summer (unless you live in Phoenix or something), but you might notice a huge increase in cat fur in the winter as the humidity level drops. Static electricity is made worse with low humidity, and static electricity and cat fur mixes about as well as crack and pregnancy. (Okay, maybe not that bad…)
Good luck!
[QUOTE=Dragwyr]
As a former cat owner who had to get rid of our cats due to bad allergies on my part, I can offer the following advice:
- Use some sort of tool to help them shed their fur better (The Furminator listed above or other shedding blade of some sort would be fine)
- Wear a mask when you sleep. I used to wear one of those dust masks that the hardware store sold when I slept. It worked great at keeping the cat hair and dander out!
- Do a sinus rinse with a saline solution. Either a Neti Pot or one of those sinus rinse kits from NeilMed will very effectively clean out all the gunk in your nose.
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She could always brush her nose nightly with one of these. As I understand it, they come in the ‘Katie Homes’, the ‘Sara Jessica Parker’, and the “I’ll get you my Pretties!” ‘Margaret Hamilton’ model (sold only with a Dr.’s note). Guaranteed to clean lint, hair, and gunk out of even the most clogged nasal passages or PVC tubes. Still, under no circumstances should you ever attempt to motorize the device.
“He died in his sleep while having a dream. They found a cat on his face.”
“Poor bastard.”
I thought of another thing we do - we have an easily-washed cat blanket on the bed to catch their hair (because nobody wants to be washing their comforters every couple of weeks). Since my husband is allergic to cats and we do kick them out at night, the cat blanket comes off when we go to sleep, and put back on the next morning when the cats are (somewhat) allowed back in. We do try to keep the bedroom a mostly-cat-free zone.
Good one, Count Blucher. I hope Alice’s SO doesn’t have any fistfights with the little moggies. 
[QUOTE=featherlou]
My problem with the cats is cat hair in my eyes. My husband and I live in the same house, interact pretty much the same with the cats, and I get hairs in my eyes every day, and he doesn’t. I don’t get it. Oh well. What can you do? (Other than getting rid of the cats and cleaning your house top to bottom and never having cats again, but that ain’t happening.)
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This happens to me, too. I think it’s mascara-related. I really do.
Sorry to ruin your hypothesis - I don’t wear mascara. And my husband’s eyelashes are longer than mine. I honestly don’t know what it is. I do wear glasses, and he doesn’t - you’d think that would help keep the fur out, though.
[QUOTE=alice_in_wonderland]
I have way too much cat hair in my nose.
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That’s because Polyjuice potion isn’t supposed to be used for animal transformations! Duh! 
[QUOTE=Muffin]
Don’t let the kitties sleep higher up on the bed than your chest.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<sob> <sniff> <drool>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<gasp gasp gasp>
You’ve never kept cats, have you?
Schatzi wakes me up by chewing on my face. I’m afraid my suggesting that they not sleep higher than chest high will be met with extreme kitty disdain.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
I do wear glasses, and he doesn’t - you’d think that would help keep the fur out, though.
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You sleep with your glasses on? Weird.
Perhaps it’s DPJ’s long flowing lashes that are keeping the cat hair out?
[QUOTE=alice_in_wonderland]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<sob> <sniff> <drool>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<gasp gasp gasp>
You’ve never kept cats, have you?
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Arrrr, matey, me do, but only whens they thinks theys a parrot does theys gets above me chest.
[QUOTE=alice_in_wonderland]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<sob> <sniff> <drool>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
<gasp gasp gasp>
You’ve never kept cats, have you?
Schatzi wakes me up by chewing on my face. I’m afraid my suggesting that they not sleep higher than chest high will be met with extreme kitty disdain.
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Alice, I know you may not believe me, but I really have managed to keep cats out of a bedroom (for a while at least). The trick is to buy one of these and have it next to your bedroom door first along with a sealed bag of treats. You should also have a cold drink and a small snack for yourself by your nightstand (its all in the preparation).
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Shake the treats bag vigorously to gather the herd.
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Lightly lob the bag 10-15 feet out the bedroom door down the hall. Avoid yelling ‘grenade’ as it annoys the cats.
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Pick up and evict any/all slow-pokes.
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Close the door firmly. (You must hear the latch hasp catch the plate of the doorjam before step 5)
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Install the security bar firmly like so. Note: It must be firm enough so that a cat pushing from the other side will not be able to make door rattling sounds.
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Watch TV / DVD until sleepy (or at least until the meowing stops).
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Sweet Dreams!
Aw, the kitty life jacket is too cute!
(No, I don’t sleep with my glasses on - I get cat hairs in my eyes all day long.)
[QUOTE=winterhawk11]
I sing the praise of The Furminator .
I never believe that advertised things work the way they’re supposed to, but our five cats were shedding so much that we had to do something. The pet shop folks recommended this, so we tried it. A little pricey ($29.99 for the cat-sized version), but…
Damn, if this thing doesn’t work! You use it on the cats and you get enough hair to make it seem like you can build yourself another cat! Bonus is that the cats like it.
I recommend giving it a shot–it works.
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I went right out at lunch today and purchased one of these.
It’s the BOMB, B-O-M-B, BOMB. I got a tennis ball sized clump of collected hair from the short haired one and now, if I can just convince him that it’s not torture, I’m planning on getting a softball sized clump from the long haired one.
[QUOTE=chrissysissystar]
I went right out at lunch today and purchased one of these.
It’s the BOMB, B-O-M-B, BOMB. I got a tennis ball sized clump of collected hair from the short haired one and now, if I can just convince him that it’s not torture, I’m planning on getting a softball sized clump from the long haired one.
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Humm - Ok, I’ve looked for a local distributer and it appears that a shop right accross the street from my work sells these babies. Maybe I’ll wander over at lunch and check them out. (If only because getting the snot out of this cat hair for my shawl is proving harder than I originally anticipated…ewwwwwwww…)
I must be doing something horribly wrong - I’ve never noticed cat hairs in my nostrils. That could be because of the constant running my nose does because of my allergy to the furry beast that runs my life.
Do you people actually find cat hairs on the tissue when you do the ole “blow and peek”? Fascinating.
[QUOTE=alice_in_wonderland]
<snip>(If only because getting the snot out of this cat hair for my shawl is proving harder than I originally anticipated…ewwwwwwww…)
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See, you’re doing it all wrong. Get a cat blanket like I’ve got, and when you put it through the dryer, you get a nice fluffy batt of cat hair suitable for carding, spinning, and knitting.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
See, you’re doing it all wrong. Get a cat blanket like I’ve got, and when you put it through the dryer, you get a nice fluffy batt of cat hair suitable for carding, spinning, and knitting.
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Once you get the cat trained, you don’t have to wrap it up in a blanket before putting it in the dryer.