If you have a pet and a carpet or rugs you should have a metal carpet rake for pet hair.

I just removed what seems to be an entire dog from our living room rug.

@thomasfuchs

my cat sheds enough for 3 cats. I've learned to brush any carpeted areas before vacuuming (i'm tired of turning the vacuum over every 3 square feet to pull fur wads out of the roller gears and hose)

@coolcalmcollected @thomasfuchs Some vacuums definitely cope with this better than others. Or for example my old roomba which was terrible about getting fur in the gearbox for its little brushes. Then I bought a new brush unit which it turned out had been completely redesigned so it never gets fur trapped anywhere but in the brush roller itself. Of course we can't have that kind of thing any more because ... shareholder value!