{"id":111,"date":"2026-03-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/dog-hair-between-cleanings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:00:00","slug":"dog-hair-between-cleanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/dog-hair-between-cleanings\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with a shedding dog: what keeps the hair in check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minneapolis has a lot of dogs, and our teams vacuum up after roughly 230 of them a month. Here is what we have learned about keeping hair in check between visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What helps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Brushing the dog outside twice a week in spring and fall, when the undercoat lets go.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A washable cover on the dog\u2019s favorite couch spot, washed every week.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A small cordless vacuum by the back door for a quick two-minute pass each night.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Slightly damp rubber gloves for pulling hair off upholstery.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What helps less than you\u2019d think<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lint rollers on big surfaces, air purifiers for hair in particular (they help with dander, not tumbleweeds) and robot vacuums on long-pile rugs, which tend to wind hair around the brush roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it means for your clean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two or more shedding dogs add about 20 minutes to a standard clean, so we add $20. One dog is free. A husky counts as two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our teams clean up after about 230 dogs a month. What really keeps dog hair under control between cleanings, and which popular tricks barely help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}