How to Remove Cat Hair From Blankets

Removing pet hair is a challenge faced by all animal owners. Cat hair is perhaps one of the most difficult to eliminate. Cat hair sticks to everything. It clings to your clothes, your furniture, and your blankets. Somehow those coarse little hairs weave themselves into many fabrics and attempt to set up a permanent residence there. Finding just the right method to remove the unwanted hair from your blanket is a trial and error process. Here are a few ideas.

Things You'll Need

  • Pet Hair Magnet
  • Lint brush
  • Masking tape
  • Rubber gloves
  • Dryer sheets
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Instructions

    • 1

      Purchase a Pet Hair Magnet. This is a commercially marketed product that resembles a squeegee. It is constructed of a plastic handle and a rubber blade edge. Rub the rubber edge over the cat hair and it picks up even embedded hairs. Rinse the product under running water to clean and use again and again.

    • 2

      Brush your blanket with a lint brush. Commonly used for clothing, lint brushes and rollers can be effective in removing cat hair from your favorite blanket. Brush or roll the lint remover over the surface of the blanket. The sticky surface will pull the discarded hairs from the blanket.

    • 3

      Use masking tape. If you don̵7;t have a lint roller handy, you can simulate its effects by wrapping masking tape around your hand (sticky side out). Run your hand with the sticky masking tape over the cat hair. Wipe the area completely. The hair will stick to the adhesive and be drawn out of the fabric.

    • 4

      Don a rubber glove. Use a disposable rubber glove, like the kind you might wear to do housework. Wet the glove and then rub your hand over the blanket where the hair is. You will find the wet cat hair clumping together and sticking to the rubber glove. The gloves can then be rinsed and used again.

    • 5

      Put your blanket in the dryer after washing it. Be sure to check the care label on the blanket first. If it is suitable for machine drying, place it in the dryer with a dryer sheet. The fabric softener sheet will work to break the static attachment that your cat̵7;s hair has formed with the blanket̵7;s fabric. Remember to clean out the lint filter after your blanket is done drying. You may be surprised at the amount of cat hair you will find trapped there.