<p>Child 3 came home from a camping trip with all his fleece clothing full of burrs and foxtails. Any great ideas for getting them out.
We are not talking about a few. The pants and gloves are covered. The jacket not quite as bad.</p>
<p>Tweezers. And lots of patience!</p>
<p>Yep - sit down in front of a good movie and pick, pick, pick.</p>
<p>Sorry I have no ideas. When my dog goes hiking with my husband, she also comes home with burrs. I have to pick them out one at a time. Getting them out of her fur is very time consuming, but someone has to do it!</p>
<p>I had a feeling that was my only solution. I was hoping it wasn’t.
If the jacket and pants were not new and high quality I would throw them out!</p>
<p>I think I would go to a pet store and buy a ‘slicker brush’ and see if that helped comb them out. I would go for a little one – rabbit or toy poodle size.</p>
<p>The thing you need is a comb. Dog/cat grooming tools that would work well would be the metal “geyhound comb” kind of thing, or the “furminator.” An undercoat rake would probably have teeth too far apart. Or try a human comb.</p>
<p>I would try a metal comb, it’s what we use on our Standard Poodle when she gets into “stuff”. Or masking tape, stick it on and pull it off. Test in a small area first, of course…</p>
<p>Maybe try one of those masking tape lint rollers and press down hard while rolling it slowly?</p>
<p>I hope you have a good movie to watch while you clean up his fleece - ;)</p>
<p>Why is this your problem? Why isn’t it HIS problem?</p>
<p>Error in gender in first post. It is a she. She is a middle schooler. It is my problem since her solution would be to just wash them and not use the clothes again if they were prickly. Since she is not the only family member who wears these fleece pants it is my problem.
She does all her own laundry which none of her siblings ever did so I don’t complain about her much.</p>
<p>Ah. I would help a middle schooler with this problem. I was assuming a college student.</p>