For those of you that don't, Gus is our chocolate lab. He is 95 lbs of pure love. Well, make that 5 lbs of pure love and 90 lbs of hair. I often describe him as having so much love to give that it just explodes off of his body in the form of hair. It then lands on our floor, on our couch, on our counters (don't worry, I'm pretty good about keeping those clean), and any other available surface of our home- or other people's home, if they are so kind as to allow him in the front door.
A little example...
When we moved from our old house to the new one, I was packing the closet, and in the interest of organization, I have a hanging shoe cubby that attaches to the clothes pole. As I collapsed it, I found that the top of this cubby, which is above eye level, was covered in Gus hair. If his hair is able to get to the top of our closet, with the door normally kept closed, that means it's just floating in the air!
So how do we try to manage this hair? Vacuuming, of course. Probably not as often as we should, but at least once a week, and definitely right before anyone actually comes over to our house. Two years ago, as Blake and I were settling into our first home, my parents got a central vac and gave us their less than a year old vacuum. And I thought it was doing a pretty good job, we just had a dog that shed, a lot. But Wednesday evening, I got down on the floor and realized our vacuum just cannot keep up with the amount of love Gus has to give. I had JUST vacuumed the night before, and there was still dog hair all over the floor.
So, for Christmas, I am asking for either the Bissell Pet Hair Eraser, the Kenmore Progressive Upright, or the Dyson Animal.
Until then... sorry about all the love.
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