My wife has a sign hanging on the wall that says, 'When I get the urge to clean house, I lay down til it passes', a rule she truly lives by. The dog hair has built up in certain areas to the extent that it is thought of not as dirt but insulation. We both work some long hours and neither of us has the energy to clean when we get home. I do occassionaly tidy up a bit if I know someone is coming and she vacuums on her days off. If folks can't accept us the way we are then we don't need them anyway!