We have the sweetest dog in the world. She is loving and leaning.
Loving because that is just how she is. Leaning because her back legs don't work very well together so she tends to lean heavily against us.
She is also very old and not very smart (whoever thinks all German Shepherds are clever should meet this one!).
Did I mention how sweet she is?
BUT (and you knew that was coming, right?)
She sheds. All German Shepherds shed. They could shed as an Olympic sport. Summer. Winter. The time doesn't seem to matter. Balls of fluff adhere under furniture, cling to clothes, and appear in food.
Our house has sticky rollers like other houses have potpourri.
We brush her. We vacuum. We don't have rugs anymore because it is easier to get the pet hair off wood floors. It doesn't matter. You could weave a new dog out of one week's shedding.
My husband wears black all the time - not as an affectation - it is job-related. He can't stand pet hair on his clothes. The dog is old, so he has been suffering for quite a while. He has been asking about her life-expectancy since she was five.
The hair continues to pile up. I sometimes think that it will continue after she dies. A phantom dog will shed deliberately and lovingly in our house just to let us know she cares.
(I have not shared this idea with my husband)
My family and I used to have the same problem because we had a shepherd and yellow lab mix and there was hair everywhere. (By the way it's extremely common in shepherds to have bad leg function because the shape of their hips and back legs are different from other dogs).
ReplyDeleteOne thing we invested in was a Roomba vacuum. It's a vacuum that moves on its own even when you're not in the house and it works really well. There are different kinds you can get, some cheaper some more expensive, but it's definitely helpful for especially hairy pets.
My dad absolutely hates getting animal hair on his clerical clothes. When he visits a member of our church, he always comes home with an abundance of cat hair on his clothes(plus he is sneezing like crazy). This is probably why I never had a pet with fur in my house and never will!
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