Thick double coat · i clean every day and it never ends
Double-coated dog hair everywhere, and the furniture eats your time
Coats like this: Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, Border Collie, Australian Shepherd, Corgi, Pomeranian, Bernese Mountain Dog, Collie (rough), Cattle Dog, Samoyed, Malamute, Shiba Inu, Akita, Shetland Sheepdog, Newfoundland, Saint Bernard, Chow Chow. Thick double coats shed soft undercoat that comes out in clumps and drifts.
Your thick double coat sheds soft undercoat that comes out in clumps and drifts, and the supply doesn't stop, so cleaning feels daily by definition. Two things change the daily load: how much loose hair comes off on a brush instead of the floor, and how much of the house you treat as needing daily attention.
Brush for five minutes tonight 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, outside if you can. Look at the pile; some of that would have ended up in the house. Then pick one spot — where they sleep — as the only place you clean daily for a week.
What you can stop doing
- Daily sofa and bed cleaning. Cover the spot they use with something washable and deal with the cover instead.
- Shopping for another gadget before the week is up. See what the brushing and the one-spot rule do first.
What comes next
- 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, and once the daily amount drops, settle at a couple of 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.
- For hair already in fabric: a rubber glove, slightly damp, in short strokes toward you. Try it on a hidden corner first.
When shedding gets heavier
Most heavy-shedding coats let go in waves, often as the seasons turn. Brush more often while it lasts and go back to normal when the hair on the brush thins out. How heavy and how long varies by animal and by how much time they spend indoors, so go by what comes off the brush, not the calendar.
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The goal isn't zero hair. It's a routine short enough that you'll actually keep doing it.
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.