Which leads to the question of best vacuum for dog hair..I bought an Oreck and it's pretty good. Was going to buy an huge industrial for over $1300 so that nobody can complain anymore, then I realized we would all have to live with it. Little tuffs of golden hair in corners, on our red rugs on my black outfits (on everything I'm sure)and if that's the worse thing Cody does, then who cares. My mother has severe allergies and although she usually blames the dog, will still lean down and hug him and rub him, bless her heart. It's the big brown eyes. Cody also takes Vit E 400 IU 2x a day and B complex (both for Collie Nose) plus a fatty oily vitamin complex on his food.He's never had a skin problem and has a beautiful coat, for which I am grateful, but as I said before, I'm tempted to have a dog-hair coat made!