Well try having 4 cats and three flights of stairs in your house!! Actually its not to bad-the spring and fall "molt"is the worst though. As for hardwood floors I'm looking at a couple of fur puffs now!!
to get the hairs off the spindles and from the corners i use the sweepa http://image.bizrate.com/resize?sq=1...062&mid=138485 then comes the 15 volt handheld vac. the vac comes with a "crevice device" which i use for the base of the spindles
