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Best Cat Hair Air Purifier - 7 Features a Purifier Must Have to Effectively Remove Cat Hair

By Debbie Davis

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Published: 15Dec2009
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Cats are wonderful and their beautiful silky hair is a large part of their appeal. But cat hair in the air continues to cause a huge problem for many people, and can even be the cause of having to find another home for their cat. The best cat hair air purifiers have the following 7 features that can save you the heart break of giving your cat away, will result in cleaner air and a cleaner home, and will make you feel better physically.

1. Removes Cat Hair-While this may seem a pretty obvious point, the reasoning behind it is not. Cat hair attracts all kinds of other smaller pollutants such as household dust, dust mites, pollen, and dander, all of which cause huge problems for anyone with allergies and asthma, and can even cause respiratory problems for those who were previously healthy. So by removing the hair you are also removing many other allergens as well.

2. Remove Cat Dander-While airborne cat hair is a nuisance and breathing it constantly for prolonged periods of time (like all of your cat's life) is unhealthy, it is the protein in cat dander that usually triggers asthma and allergy symptoms such as watery eyes, burning throat, sneezing and the like. This dander or dead skin is invisible to the naked eye, but if you're at all sensitive to it, your nose knows it's there immediately. It is much smaller in size than hair and needs a cleaner whose filter can remove sub-micron size particles.

3. HEPA Filter-Because the dander is so small, the purifier you choose should have a filter that can trap tiny particles you can see and invisible ones that you can't see. By definition a high efficiency particle arresting (or HEPA) filter can remove particles as small as .3 microns with 99.97% efficiency. This means that for every 10,000 particles of dander and other household pollutants that can attach to your cat's hair, a HEPA will remove all but 3 of them. That puts the odds heavily in your favor for clean air.

4. On Duty 24 Hours-To be effective your cleaner needs to filter the air 24 hours every day. You cat's hair is constantly being sent airborne when it goes about its daily activities such as running, jumping on the sofa, or lying on your bed. Your activities also send it airborne when you walk around, sweep or vacuum, or even flop on the couch. Since your cat will always produce and shed hair and dander, your air cleaner should be able to be left on 24 hours to literally keep the hair and dander count down.

5. Safe for All-Your purifier should produce only fresh clean air as a by product (no ozone), and should have a high capacitor motor that is designed to run constantly and will not overheat when left on day after day. It should also be made of steel rather than plastic. Many times when the motor heats up a plastic air purifier it will off gas fumes into the air, and that is bad news for your cat and you.

6. More Than One Filter-Cat hair is relentless and one filter will just not be effective for very long. To avoid frequent filter changes, look for an air purifier that has multiple filters, several of which should be pre-filters. A cleaner with pre-filters is an indication that the need for filter changes will be less than a purifier that has no pre-filters and only one main filter.

7. Filter for Gas and Odor-Having a cat as part of the family comes with some odor. A purifier that can eliminate odor as well as hair and dander will save you time, space, and money. Rather than having to have multiple cleaners to address all the pollutants, having one purifier with multiple filters will mean you have the best possible air purifier for cat hair.

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