r/oddlysatisfying 9h ago

The Ultimate Carpet Scrape

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 9h ago

Ok, I gotta ask. (I have 3 dogs).

How long since that carpet was last vacuumed?

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u/Shallstrom 9h ago

Yesterday.

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u/DAS_BEE 8h ago

Man even with my 1 dog when she's shedding there's no way to win

I've given up, the fur has taken over. I eat fur now. I am the fur

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u/JustHereForCookies17 8h ago

We have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever.

Less than 6 hours after a full sweep/vacuum/mop, we have brown tumbleweeds all over the house.  His hair is curly so it not only corkscrews into fabrics, but also tangles with itself to become rolling hairballs.  

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u/wherethefuckismyvape 7h ago

I had voluminous, curly hair once upon a time. I was always pulling hairballs out of everything. I shave my head every few days now. I don't have those problems anymore. Food for thought. 

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u/Lexi_Banner 6h ago

Shaving a shedding breed dog (like a husky or retriever or shepherd, etc) does not stop the shedding - the hair that sheds is just shorter. Plus you damage the dog's coat - possibly irreparably. It's not like human hair in the slightest.

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u/makeroniear 2h ago

😂 I'd have to shave my dog daily if that were possible! His fur is so thick that I can only get down to a 1/2" blade. And looks ridiculous at that short of a length.

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u/BananaPalmer 1h ago

Do NOT shave double-coat dogs, this is really bad for their hair and skin, and doesn't even stop the shedding. You can cause permanent damage doing this, for nothing.

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u/AyysforOuus 7h ago

Got hungry and ate the thought. Carpet is now bald.

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u/wherethefuckismyvape 3h ago

Lick that next 🥴

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u/Admirable-Pound-4267 3h ago

I have a Samoyed and I know your struggles!

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u/AlertKaleidoscope803 3h ago

Chessies have some of the most uniquely frustrating fur to manage that I have ever encountered. My friend had one in elementary school and I just opted to go sockless whenever I visited her house.

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u/Environmental_Fix488 8h ago

A roomba a day keeps the fur away.

I never saw so many hair in one place and my robot is doing his daily round. Just get one (can be any other brand) and zero fur. Mine also has the auto cleaning mode so I can forget about him and do a general cleaning once a week.

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u/DAS_BEE 7h ago

Granted my pup is house trained, but the horror of seeing a Roomba hit a turd and drag the mess around has changed my mind about them lol

I decided to get a cordless vacuum instead and it's been a HUGE help

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u/Environmental_Fix488 7h ago

Yeah, it will not happend. In best case it will send you a photo of that turd and it will say that it cannot clean that zone. My kids are little and sometimes they leave their toys everywhere (small and big ones). If roomba detects that, will send me a photo and will ignore that zone.

So no, a smart one will not drag shit everywhere on your house.

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u/DAS_BEE 7h ago

Oh that's pretty cool!

I'm also not personally interested in having too many smart devices in my house, but I'm glad that problem has been solved because that's a real nasty one

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u/Environmental_Fix488 6h ago

Without wifi it has the same features but you need to connect via Bluetooth if you want to see the turd haha.

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u/Spork_the_dork 4h ago

Yeah this is one of those good things to come out of ML/AI stuff. You can actually train a Roomba to detect shit and not smear shit all over the floors. Only really possible when you can actually reliably make the computer recognize poop from a picture.

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u/peppabuddha 6h ago

Had that happen when we woke up and saw brown crop circles up and down the hallway stuck deep into the carpet fibers.....Didn't know to laugh or cry............

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u/12awr 5h ago

I think I went through all the stages of grief when I saw the mess ours created.

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u/12awr 5h ago

Yeah….so I have a robot vacuum I run offline and it smeared a turd around my whole kitchen. I usually run it daily during shedding season, but lesson learned and now I only do it if I’m around to watch.

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u/Jirvey341 4h ago

I love the idea of a roomba but I'm so worried ut'll grab a cord and yank something down or unplug it (especially around mine and my husband's computers)

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u/Environmental_Fix488 50m ago

You have to try it first (it doesn’t need to be a Roomba) and you will love it.

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u/SnowNoCali 7h ago

The dog hair is worth it to me

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u/DAS_BEE 7h ago

I love my furball and I wouldn't ever trade her for clean floors, and nobody can convince me otherwise

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u/Unreliablesauces 5h ago

Hahahaa. Hi The Fur!

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u/itsaaronnotaaron 4h ago

My choice of black clothing also lets everyone know "I have cats".

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u/ZealousIdeal476 4h ago

I have found that my crocs can do the same thing as this scraper

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u/Clustercrumbs 2h ago

Yuuup. 3 cats, very active, not even long haired. When they start to shed (all at the same time, of course), give it one day for our white carpet to turn grey with fur (I know, I know, white carpet was the first mistake, but you can't be picky when you need a 9x1m.)

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u/enaK66 2h ago

Vacuums just can't keep up. I'd be cutting hair out of the roller brush every day when I vacuum to keep up with it. Fuck that. Let there be hair. I'm not vacuuming every day and I can't afford to renovate.

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u/Paraxom 1h ago

I briefly had my friends 3 dogs for 2 weeks, vacuuming was a sisyphyean endeavor, ended up buying a robot vacuum that id run while walking them just so I could stay sane 

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u/jerryleebee 7h ago

Right‽ 3x dogs here too. Big ones. Sheddy ones. I can literally sweep a room, exit the room, re-enter the room, and find fur again.

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u/afterburningdarkness 6h ago

Get a robo vaccum for the floor and a handheld one for furniture, i have 3 dogs.

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u/Ok-Worth398 8h ago

best comment because it’s so true

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u/RavnVidarson 7h ago

All my troubles seemed so far away.

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u/starchimp224 3h ago

All these people confused about how there’s so much hair and saying it’s probably never been cleaned. This is the amount of hair I brush off my cats weekly

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u/iamanemptychair 8h ago

With the most busted vacuum of all time, been barely tickling the dirt for the better part of a decade.

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u/KGB_cutony 9h ago

if golden retriever or Labrador, two hours ago;
If any poodle mix, not since the Clinton years.

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u/How_that_convo_went 8h ago edited 7h ago

I thought I’d get a Lab and it would be a low maintenance coat sorta dawg.

This motherfucker sheds all goddamn year long. I brush him twice a week with a slicker and a furminator and take a wig’s worth of fur off of him each time. And still— STILL— I walk through my house and a random toupee will come tumbleweeding past.

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u/KGB_cutony 7h ago

Yup. They shed twice a year, 6 months at a time.

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u/skool_uv_hard_nox 7h ago

I have a lab.

I brushed her for an hour with a rake then a furminator.

Then gave her a bath where she was wet brushed.

Then blow dried and brushed again once fully dry.

Still had wads of fur and I vacuumed 3 x the next day after vacuuming earlier that week

I give up

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u/GuiltyEidolon 6h ago

It can be a dietary issue at that point. Some dogs are also just more prone to shedding.

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u/regalrecaller 24m ago

cut the hair off. shedding stops when fur is trimmed

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u/Sea-Breath-007 6h ago

Yeah, mine gets brushed and I pull off enough fur the basically create 2 more labs, 10 minutes later there's already new hairs on my floor.

Love her to bits, but the shedding is ridiculous and the damn hairs get stuck everywhere :(

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u/RedManMatt11 8h ago

Grew up with Golden Retrievers and now have a Goldendoodle, I don’t think I can ever go back

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u/chargoggagog 8h ago

Seriously, I grew up with dogs. You could go to any carpeted surface in the house, pinch your fingers on the surface and come up with dog hair, always.

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u/AverageTundra 7h ago

That's not true though, you don't what fur you end up when you get a doodle. I know a guy who got a golden doodle (goodle?) which shedded more than either of the parents.

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u/SinisterCheese 2h ago

My brother's black lab who is a hypodog (Trained to sense my diabetic brother's blood sugar changes, and alert accordingly) has a mission on top of their work... To make sure that every carpet whether just cleaned or new has at least few kilos of their fur in it. Except if it is winter. Then they make sure that they have rolled over every single bit of fresh snow there is... like a canine equivalent of a snowcat on a ski slope.

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u/Porky_Pine_ 9h ago

I have one of these scrapers. They work well. I have two furry little asshats. An English cream golden and a Great Pyrenees. I have never pulled up a FRACTION of the hair this person has extracted. They must never clean.

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 8h ago

I had a GP. It’s like having a dog, wrapped in dog fur, with another dog, wrapped in fur, that has two dogs.

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u/alittlebitaspie 8h ago

So....cuddly then?

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 7h ago

Well stated!

Yes, Mabel was cuddly. And 130 pounds of fur and heart.

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u/NSFW_Addiction_ 6h ago

Probably faked to make a satisfying video. The carpet under is oddly clean like a vacuum would do, but that much hair there would be more than just a neat layer of hair. Probably used a shedding comb over that spot or something.

I have one of these and it could absolutely do that if you had that much hair - but when I let it get that bad it doesn't look like that.

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u/tukuiPat 3h ago

It's a staged product demonstration.

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 5h ago

Can I have a link? It looks like it could help my own carpet.

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u/radicalspacecat 5h ago

It's an advert for the product, if you look at the carpet you can see that they've spread a layer of the fur out in a square to "demonstrate".

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u/sidc42 8h ago

Not OP, but I've had that...

At max we had three dogs (2 goldens and a lab mix) and four cats. Back then I raked/vacuumed somewhere everyday. That would have been about a weekish (maybe a little longer) somewhere the Goldens spent a lot of time sleeping.

Didn't help that the Goldens I had then did everything imaginable to avoid being brushed.

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u/bwinney 8h ago

We have two dogs and set the roomba off daily in the morning and deep clean once a week. We have a carpet scraper for our bedroom (the only carpeted room besides a rug in the living room) that we use when we deep clean. Even once a week doesn't feel like enough because there is *so much* fur that just clings to the carpet! 10/10 recommend to really get in there but also 0/10 because it highlights how gross our home is

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 7h ago

I (a 3 dog owner) never understood.

Everyone loves petting dogs (even dog haters) (We know who you are!)

Why does everyone freak out over dog hair?

Cant you feel the hair when you pet the dog?

When you look at the dog, do you imagine them bald?

So why is everyone shocked when there is dog hair in a dog owners house?

Am I missing something here?

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u/GreenFriedYam 7h ago

Man, I moved into a house. Previous owner had cats. I vacuumed the carpets at least once a month for 8 years (usually more). I got a carpet cleaner rental and the amount of cat hair that came out after no cat had been in the house for 8 years and the floor had been vacuumed literally a hundred times… could have made another cat.

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 7h ago

Hahahahaha!

There is an art to pet hair removal. We have 3 dogs, and if my wife knows company is coming over, ain’t a dog hair anywhere!

I don’t know how she does it, but it’s GONE!

And she can do it in about 8 minutes. Shes a dog hair genie!

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u/Alarmed-Pianist6446 6h ago

I need to know her ways

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 6h ago

I may have exaggerated slightly for effect, but honestly, if the dogs weren’t there, nobody would know we had dogs.

She really is a genius.

IT’s kinda like the magician who hides the little red ball under the cup, and nobody knows where it went. Except she hides all the dog hair, and I’m scared to know where it all went.

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u/2021isevenworse 8h ago

Get a carpet shampooer and you'll be amazed how a seemingly white carpet is that white after your first go-over.

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u/Comfortable_Pizza_59 7h ago

I have a Royal commercial cleaner and a little green machine for accidents.

We use the Royal a couple times a year. The little green machine comes out a couple times a year for illnesses.

I‘d consider our house “pretty clean”.

No place in my house would pull a fur ball like that.

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u/teachermanjc 7h ago

Welcome to our house where the fur sticks to everything. Except the dog.

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u/FatMacchio 7h ago

Most likely a staged video. Have you ever seen those videos with rug cleanings? A lot of time they purposely make them look really dirty with easy to clean stuff that doesn’t stain so the cleaning process and the before and after looks amazing. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is fake

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u/Mara-172 6h ago

Never 😭 there is no way some of this hair wasn't picked up with a vacuum cleaner

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u/Amelaclya1 8h ago

I don't have carpeting, but one of my fluffy cats could do this in a week.

Ok, I'm exaggerating, but not by much. Every day I brush her, I pull off a kitten sized blob of fur. And I still need to run the roomba daily and vacuum the furniture weekly. And still sometimes I see a random fur tumbleweed float past.

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u/Full-Public1056 5h ago

I have a fluffy dog. I also have both a robot vacuum that runs every day, a normal.al vacuum and a dyson one with attachments specifically for animal hair. I can run all 3 of them on the carpet in the living room and you can bet the next day it'll be full of hair again

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u/Odd-String29 4h ago

I gotta ask: why would you even have carpet at all?

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u/Alternative-Tea-7557 4h ago

4 and a half years ago, why?

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u/PirateSteve85 2h ago

I have 3 and while I usually dont I could sweep 2-3 times a day. Honestly based on my dogs shedding that is maybe 2-3 days.

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u/iDestroyedYoMama 9h ago

Her house smells so gross.

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u/NailRusty 5h ago

With one cat about an hour