At our store, The Sweeper Store, in Wooster Oho, we have questions all the time about how to pick up bothersome dog and cat hair. The most important feature on a vacuum cleaner, if you have pets that shed, is the type of brush roller. Here are a few things to look for in a vacuum made specifically to pick up pet hair. They shed year round, and that creates problems when vacuuming you home. Natural fiber brushes are the best.

They will comb through the toughest carpet, brushing out the pet hair.

Roller brushes are not all created equal. If your vacuum cleaner has a brush that revolves, you'll see that it picks up pet dander and hair better than a vacuum that has no roller. Pet hair clogs up the brushes themselves, making the brushes unable to comb. Hair wrapping around a bush causes many problems.

The big advantage of the natural fiber roller brushes is that the hair will not get trapped around the roller brush.

It slows down the roller brush, stretching the vacuum cleaner belt.