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How to Remove Pet Hair

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Hair on your pants from a loved animal could be very frustrating. It could also make you so annoyed with your pet that you would avoid them at all costs when you're about to leave for a special occasion. It finds its way deep into carpets, furniture, and car upholstery as well. This article provides information on how to remove pet hair from clothing, carpeting and/or upholstery.

Steps

1. Weigh it down. Lightly dampen the palm of your hand. Wipe the pet hair off in a downward motion. The hair will ball up and stick to your damp hand.
2. Barely dampen a clean, regular kitchen sponge (or sponge mop if you're removing pet hair from a low-pile carpet, in which case the floor should be thoroughly vacuumed first). Rub the fabric, upholstery, or carpet with the sponge. The fur should roll up into clumps that you can pick off by hand.
3. Put on a latex glove. Rub the surface with it on. The pet hair should stick to your glove. This also works with rubber gloves or cloth gardening gloves with a rubber coating on the palm. A rubber bristle push broom can work in the same way on floors. Dampen the glove or rubber section of the glove for increased effectiveness.
4. Inflate a balloon and rub it across the surface that has pet hair on it. The static on the balloon's surface will attract the hair (works on yours, too) which you can collect and then re-use the balloon to get more hair.
5. Rub hook-and-loop (e.g. Velcro) curlers on the surface to catch the hair. If the curler has a metal inner form, it can be bent to reach corners.
6. Apply fabric softener. A fabric softener sheet that normally goes in the dryer can be used to pick up pet hair. You can also mist the surface with a mixture of fabric softener and water to "prep" the area before removing the pet hair using any of the other methods.
7. Consider preventive measures.
   • Place your clothing in an area isolated from your pets.
   • Groom your pets regularly to reduce the amount of loose hair on them.
   • Vacuum carpets and furniture regularly (chairs/couches and cat carpet towers), and wash whatever throw rugs and linens on which the pets sleep or have contact.

Tips

• Rolling, sticky lint removers work, as does a piece of duct tape wrapped around your hand with the sticky side out, but after one swipe you must move onto the next piece, which is more wasteful than the above methods.
• Use masking tape. It's relatively cheap and you can tear off a piece, tape the ends together, and then rotate the tape while removing pet hair from clothing, etc.
• Clothing can be put in a washing machine and into the dryer with a static sheet. Once it's cleaned, hang it up. Be careful, though, because dark solid colors tend to spot (almost looks like grease spots) when they're the only clothes in the dryer with a dryer sheet
• In the office, the sticky sided clear label holders shipping companies provide make an excellent hair removal glove.

Warnings

• Some people are allergic to pet dander, which flakes off along with their hair. If you are one of these people, use caution and limit contact with both pets and items covered in pet hair.

Related wikiHows

• How to Remove Pet Hairs from Clothes
• How to Remove Dog Hairs from Stair Carpet
• How to Keep Lint off Clothes in the Washing Machine
• How to Prepare a Guestroom for Guests Who Have Allergies

Sources and Citations

• The Dollar Stretcher - Removing Pet Hair
• Thrifty Fun - How do I remove dog hair from car upholstery?
• DIYnetwork.com - Removing Pet Hair from Furniture

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Mmm...cheesecake! A good American tradition, and a great treat for those outside of the USA, too!

How to Make American Cheesecake

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Cheesecake has been around since at least the first century, A.D., when it was described by Roman politician Marcus Porcius Cato in De Agricultura as libum, a small sweet cake often given as a temple offering.[1] Today this sweet, cheese-based dessert is made in many parts of the world and in as many different ways. American cheesecake is usually made with cream cheese, although recipes vary distinctly by region (New York style, Pennsylvania Dutch style, Ann Arbor style, etc.). Here's one way to make a cheesecake with a distinct American flavor.

Ingredients

• 10.5 oz (300g) butter cookies, finely crumbled
• 3.85 oz (110g) melted butter
• 1.3 lbs (600g) cream cheese
• 1.15 lbs (520g) quark cheese (or any low-fat, soft white cheese)
• 10.5 oz (300g) sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
• 6 eggs
• 14 oz (400g) sour cream
• raspberries
• sprig of mint
• icing sugar

Steps

1. Preheat the oven and set the oven to 300ºF (150ºC/ gas mark 2).
2. Add the melted butter to the crumbled cookies and mix thoroughly.
3. Pour the mixture into the baking ring and use your hands to press it all down evenly. Place it into the fridge for between 5-10 minutes to stiffen.
4. Put the cream cheese into a mixing bowl. Follow with the quark cheese, sugar and vanilla. Start to fold and mix with the spatula, then continue with the whisk and stir vigorously until everything is evenly blended.
5. Add an egg to the mixture and stir it in thoroughly. Repeat for each of the other eggs in turn.
6. Put the sour cream into the bowl and stir it in thoroughly, but again, take care not to beat the mixture.
7. Pour the mixture slowly and evenly into the baking ring. It is now ready to go in the oven.
8. Place it into the lower part of the oven and let it bake for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
9. Watch to see if the cheesecake is ready it should be cooked but have a slightly wobbly consistency. Take it out, let it cool down and place in the fridge to set, for a minimum of 4 hours.
10. Slide a knife all around the edgeof the cheesecake to free it from the sides. Release the spring of the baking ring and take it off.
11. Dust the cake with some icing sugar and slice it into portions. Place a portion onto a serving plate and garnish with a few fresh raspberries and a sprig of mint

Tips

• Stir, but don't beat the mixture so as not to whisk in air, and make it too light in texture.
• Cooling a cheesecake too quickly often results in cracking. It is usually better to let it sit in the partially-opened oven for a few hours before moving it.

Warnings

• Cheesecake is tasty, but high in fat and sugars. Watch how much you are eating if you are trying to lose or maintain weight.

Things You'll Need

• Mixing bowl
• Whisk
• Spatula
• 26cm, spring baking ring
• Knife

Related wikiHows

• How to Make Banana Raspberry Pie
• How to Make Pumpkin Pie
• How to Make Carrot Cake
• How to Make Walnut Carrot Cake

Sources and Citations

• Videojug Used with permission. Pictures are screenshots from the video.

1. ? http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Cakes/Cheesecake.htm

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