Just last night, I found a baked-in cat hair gracing my pizza. On my mission to reduce occurrences like that, I follow a few pet hair-reducing tips for the kitchen:

• Prior to cooking, use a lint brush or sticky brush designed to remove pet hair. Run it over your shirt to remove any pet hair which may fall off while you prepare food.

• Of course, wash your hands. And, wash your dog! The bath will help reduce shedding.

• Brush your pet often. I like using the FurBuster on my cat.

• Declare the kitchen off-limits to pets.

• Clean all counters and food prep areas before starting to cook. Cats don’t always understand or obey “off-limits.”

• Vacuum or sweep often to remove pet hair that’s lying around on the floor or other surfaces. I like the new Dyson DC31 Animal. It’s a handheld vac especially designed to remove pet hair. It even has a dusting attachment.

• Keep your pet otherwise occupied while you’re cooking. Try something like I’ve pictured above: put a bunch of wadded up catalog pages in a shoebox for your cat. That has to be more interesting than your cooking, unless you’re preparing fish!

How do you keep pet hair out of the kitchen?

(Image via Peggy Rowland)

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Keeping Pet Hair Out of Your Cooking

Bamboo and Fat Cat pet accessories have offered up some fun products for a Bloggy Giveaway!

The FurBuster (above) is the most innovative grooming tool available to pet owners and offers an affordable and professional-grade tool that owners can use at home! Comprised of three sizes of interchangeable blades that easily snap into an ergonomic handle, FurBuster removes the dead undercoat from your pet, leaving your pet well groomed and your house spic-and-span. 3 to give away!

Meet the Gruntleys! Always ready for a good ol’ fashioned Grunt-o-Rama, our family of outspoken oinkers feature a perfectly-porklike sound device that dogs just can’t resist. Forget the bacon – these happy hogs will have your dog beggin’ for more (and more)! E-I-E-I-O! 3 to give away!

The ShowGulls are all about da Glitz-n-Glamour, baby! Kitties just can’t resist the shimmy shimmy shake of their tail feathers, and one whiff of the ‘nip (it’s our world famous Zoom Around the Room Organic Catnip, of course) will keep your cat calling for an encore! Enjoy the show! 3 to give away!

To Enter:
Leave a comment here telling me one quirk your cat or dog has. Do they chase their tail? Turn their nose up at people food? Have to sleep on that one spot on the couch? No quirk is too small, tell us!

* Contest closes at 5:00pm PDT on Saturday, November 1. Winners will be notified by email and will have 24 hours to respond with mailing information before new winners are chosen.

* All current Bloggy Giveaways at The Food Bowl may be entered one time each. Good luck!

* 9 items total will be given away (9 winners, one prize each: 3 FurBusters, 3 Gruntleys, 3 ShowGulls)

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Bloggy Giveaway: Fat Cat & Bamboo Toys and Accessories