Updated: 2:26 PM CST Dec 22, 2020 Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping Institute Director, Home Appliances & Cleaning Products Lab
You love everything about your pet, but one thing that isn t so great: Finding his fur all over your house. One of the the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab’s most frequently asked questions is, What s the best vacuum to get rid of pet hair? That s because removing pet hair is one of the toughest challenges vacuum cleaners face. This is especially true when static electricity makes dog hair and cat hair cling so tightly to fabrics, like carpeting and upholstery, that no amount of brushing or suction power seem to pick it up.