Oh, you thought I only post deep thoughtful material on here? Hah!

This is Sumio.  He sheds a lot.  A hell of a lot.  I’ve recently discovered how to deal with this, so I wanted to share.

1. Get a brush appropriate to your dog’s fur type.  For a short haired, no undercoat style fur coat like Sumio’s, we use a ZoomGroom rubber brush:
   
2. Use the above brush daily.
3. Select the place for your daily brushing session wisely.  I very specifically do not brush in the same place twice, and I always choose high traffic areas, or Sumio’s favorite places to sleep, to brush him in.

The reason this is so beneficial is that a different part of the apartment gets vacuumed every day, and, over the course of a week, all high traffic areas get vacuumed at least once.  This not only means Sumio doesn’t shed as much, since I’m pulling off all the loose fur once a day, but I get a free maintenance vacuuming along with it, which I should be doing anyway, so the total extra time spent on this is about 5 minutes for the brushing itself.  This also means I only have to do a whole-apartment vacuum when I have an event at my house, as the carpet is generally kept up by the daily minivacuumings, and generally there isn’t that random layer of fur on the carpet I’d gotten used to having over the last 8 months.

#shedding @bluepojo