17 Dog Hair Hacks Pupper Pawrents Persistently Use to Fight Fur at Home

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Jul 26, 2026 8:15 AM EDT

We have all been there, you are getting ready to go out and come to pick out your outfit but find that all your clothes are full of fur. You begin to panic, frantically looking for the fresh laundry you hope will be fur-free only to find your fluffy canine child curled up in said laundry enjoying a running dream while crushing your dreams of going out without masses of fluff on your clothes. So we made this list to help ensure moments like these will be kept to a minimum in the future.

Considering how widespread a problem this is amongst canine pawrents it is of little surprise that we came upon this thread in Reddit's r/dogs subreddit. After all, there is no dog that does not shed, and so each and every pupper household in the world has the same problem, what to do with all the fur? It covers everything, nonchalantly flies above cupboards and gently lands in unattended cups. You never quite know where and when you will find another piece of fur. Which makes keeping up with the cleaning of said fur a rather tough task to take on, that is, unless you have the help of these pupper pawrents.

Now, we will cop to a caveat in this list, which is that not every solution will work for your home or your dog. There are a wide rangle of materials out there to furnish your home with and a wide range of dog fur types to match. So the combination that you are dealing with at home might be completely different than someone else's and so the same solution will not work for you both. So take a moment to consider what you have already tired and what new options might work even better. We wish you luck in keeping your head above the mounting fur.

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Well, we have quite the variety of options laid out here already. It is not often that pupper pawrents will have such varied solutions to the same problem. But seeing as every dog’s hair is different and each home is unique in its material make up, it is safe to say there is no one size fits all solution here. However, we do have to say that the idea of using the dryer is pretty darn genius and could possibly work for a number of different types of fur. Plus it works on the basis of a painter’s sheet, catching all the mess before it has a chance to hit the carpet or couch fabric and quickly, cleanly and easily carrying it away to be cleaned.
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Now, this is a really good point. Often we look to cure the symptom, which is the dog fur on everything, instead of the root of the problem. So it only makes sense that if you wish to have less fur flying around your home that you would start by brushing your dog to get the fur at its source. This is something that ought to be done regularly for the health of your doggo’s coat. But even more so if you are concerned about the amount of fur everywhere. By starting this way, any extra cleaning left to do will be simple and minimal.
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