How to Remove Dog Hair From Hard to Reach Areas of the Car Interior

Even the most loving and patient dog owner can grow weary or frustrated when faced with the reality of removing pet hair from challenging places. Once you've decided to conquer this task, ensure that you'll be successful with minimal effort by scheduling appropriate time to complete the chore. Search your home and office environment for individual pieces that you can pull together and create a budget-friendly pick-up device. Pet stores also offer hand mitts intended for fur gathering.

  1. Sports Equipment

    • Removing dog hair from hard to reach places in your car requires resourceful thinking, creativity and patience. Many items typically found in the average household prove useful when tweaked to specifically pick up hair. A golf club is one example of sports equipment that can be easily adapted. Take a few minutes to wrap a layer of clear double-sided tape around the club's head, dip the club into the hidden car area and twist it around. Pressing it up against the walls of the car is also recommended. Once one layer of tape is covered with hair retract the club and wrap a second layer of tape over the first and move back into the region. Continue additional tape layers until the area is clean.

    Recycled Homemade Devices

    • Spend a few moments scouring various household rooms for items or toys that you can break down and piece back together. For example, if your son loves monster trucks and has a play flag, you can use the stick from the flag as a handle. One quick way to make a hair pick-up ball to attach to this stick is to cut off the bottom half of an old T-shirt. Roll the material into a ball, tying it into a knot and then covering that with double-sided tape. Slide the shirt onto the end of the stick and slip it into the hidden car areas in question twisting as needed.

    Enlist Help

    • After you've dug through miscellaneous garage boxes and searched your way through forgotten attic storage areas, head to family members' and friendly neighbor's houses for helpful tools. Combine items you found scouring your own home with extraneous materials laying around their indoor area or backyard. Perhaps your next-door neighbor's garden is filled with plant life that boasts a sticky surface. Dusty Millers are one example of a plant that has a fibrous, wiry feel to it, making it useful when dragging it over hair. Swirl the stem in between your fingers and watch the hairs wrap around the leaves and stem.

    Pet Store Options

    • Head to your local pet store or a retail store like Target and spend a few dollars purchasing a tool made to help with dog hair removal. Any store that also offers merchandise to pull lint off clothes is also useful. Lint rollers have handles and a sticky surface offered in multiple layers that you can peel away as needed. Dip your hand behind car seats, running the roller over the area. Hand mitts specifically intended to gather dog hair are also available at pet stores. These mitts are made of pliable materials that allow you to jam individual fingers into small crevices if necessary. Have a bucket of water on hand when using these mitts and rinse the hair off regularly as you move throughout different car sections.