As all cat owners know, living with cats means that you’re fighting a constant battle with cat hair. I have an arsenal of tools that I use regularly in the fight. I use sticky rollers, rubber brush tools, vacuums, traditional lint brushes — you name it. But sometimes they just don’t do the trick, especially on certain fabrics and in hard to reach places likes corners and crevices, or around the edge of the carpet (you know what I’m talking about!)
I was recently sent a new product to test and I can honestly tell you, this is the best thing ever for picking up cat hair! It’s SwiPets, something that looks so simple but works so, so well. SwiPets is a glove that has been coated with a rubbery surface that sticks to the cat hair perfectly. The best way I can describe it is that it’s like when you’re trying to get at the cat hair around the edge of the carpet, up against the baseboard, and no roller or brush will fit in there. You go get a damp rag or sponge or sometimes just using damp fingers does the trick. But all of those solutions stop working after a few swipes. The SwiPets glove keeps working but it’s much, much better, plus as soon as it stops picking up the hair, simply rinse it off and it’s like new again. You can even throw it in the washing machine.
The best part is that because it’s a glove, you have complete control over grabbing the hair in the smalls cracks and crevices. The sticky part extends all the way to the end of the fingers, giving you that extra ability to grab the hair that’s accumulated in the edges and corners of furniture, cat beds, cat towers — everywhere! Seriously, once I realized how well this thing works I ran around the whole house pulling cat hair off of everything!
You can get one SwiPets glove for $14.99 or two for $19.99 from Amazon. I highly recommend this product!
I am going to have to try this!
Looks like the SwiPets is the thing to have. I just ordered it. Thanks for telling us about it.
This Swipet product looks terrific. Just wondering if you know whether it works on dog hair too? I donate my time to several rescue groups (I’m a pet photographer and I help out by providing adoption photos) and when I go on location to photograph 10 or 15 animals in a row, it would be wonderful to be able to ‘swoosh’ away hair left behind by one animal before the next one is photographed.
Oh, yeah! This sounds like something I will LOVE.
This is defnitely the kind of material that gets the job done, and these gloves should go a long way toward stopping complaints about having to deal with shedding!
Know this is a great product. I used to buy all these products UNTIL I realized that just plain water will do the job and doesn’t cost anything more. Just wet your hands slightly and run them over whatever you want to get the cat hair off. It comes rolling off the drier your hand gets and then you can just vaccum it up and don’t have to buy anything. It works and have been doing it for years. Works especially well on clothes.
Two packs are unavailable, was going to try one for me and my mom
I’ve been using Playtex and other rubber gloves for this purpose for years and they work great…except I’m sensitive to latex so I wear nitrile gloves underneath. I would be curious if people will report a comparison between regular, less expensive rubber gloves you can get at the grocery store versus these new ones. If SwiPets are better I’d be interested in trying them.
Hint: Regular rubber gloves (like you use for doing dishes) work very well too! It is amazing what comes up when you wipe a chair – stuff you didn’t even see!
shut up and take my money!!!! and… purchased!
Thank you- I just ordered these as well! I sure do hope they work!
This looks great! I definitely need it and will order soon.
Not available at amazon.ca yet – any other sources for Canada?
have indoor outdoor carpet and am tired of using a spray bottle of water and or a cat shedding tool to get hair up! Kind of trims the carpet! Have 10 cats – so am going to try one of these – will also continue using a bit of water too – will stop the fur from floating away! Hope it works!