# Removing/preventing cat hair on clothes?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 23, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225 "2002-09-23T03:35:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@PosterChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PosterChild)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/1 "2002-09-23T03:35:12Z")
As the oppressed servile downtrodden owner of two adorable fur factories (they even make me write smarmy sht like this), I have to deal with the daily production of approx. 1 apartment full of cat fur, which leads to a lot of cat brushing, floor sweeping and clothes cleaning. The problem is that washing doesn’t really remove all the hair. I recently had the idea to try “Static Guard” to keep the fur off from when I remove it with packaging tape till when I leave the apt which kind of works, but I was wondering if, at least theorectically, there was some way to wash the stuff off.
Clothes detergents are mainly a combinatio of enzymes and those long amphipathic soap?/detergent? molecules. Would something with a stronger ionic charge at one end work better? Has anyone found a detergent that works well?
My dry cleaner told me that dry cleaning just distributes the fur among all the clothes. Is there something that the fur would stick better too in the wash that you could put in like a fabric softener cloth?
Anyone find the elusive answer question to life, the universe, and everything?
PC
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### Author:  [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/2 "2002-09-23T03:44:42Z")
Have you tried those sticky pet-hair remover thingies that they sell in pet stores? You roll them over your clothes and the sticky surface picks up the hair. Works pretty good.
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### Author:  [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/3 "2002-09-23T03:50:25Z")
**Shave them pussies** …😃
(you know you were all thinking it too)
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### Author:  [@PosterChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PosterChild)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/4 "2002-09-23T04:12:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by t-keela \*
> \*\ ***Shave them pussies** …😃
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> (you know you were all thinking it too) \*\*
Actually, I tried shaving them. The razor freaks them out and mostly just gets jammed by all the fur. (I’ll have to get some real pet shears, I guess.) My ex actually used scissors and removed most of the fur from the most egregious offender. Her hair had scaloped shaped divots all over, but she seemed to shed less (at least I was able to get most of it off when I brushed her).
PC
[sub]. . . or was that not what you were talking about[/sub]
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### Author:  [@PosterChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PosterChild)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/5 "2002-09-23T14:21:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Torgo \*
> \*\*Have you tried those sticky pet-hair remover thingies that they sell in pet stores? You roll them over your clothes and the sticky surface picks up the hair. Works pretty good. \*\*
I would go through a lot of those, so instead I use packing tape, or when I have cheap access, book binding tape (very strong/sticky stuff) which works as well, but is less expensive.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/6 "2002-09-23T14:53:48Z")
There’s a breed of cat known as a “Mexican Hairless.”
They shed about as much as a grape.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/7 "2002-09-23T14:54:06Z")
There’s a breed of cat known as a “Mexican Hairless.”
They shed about as much hair as a grape.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-preventing-cat-hair-on-clothes/129225/8 "2002-09-23T15:04:15Z")
They are considerably less attractive than grapes though.