Your black T-shirts come out of the wash with more dog hair than they went in with? The washer is moving the fur around. Nothing in there is catching it.

If you've tried dryer sheets, a cup of vinegar and a lint roller by the front door, here's where the fur in your "clean" laundry comes from, and the simple thing that gives it somewhere else to go.

You pull the load out of the dryer, still warm. The black T-shirt on top is covered in short white hairs. So are the bath towels, woven right into the loops.

You washed it. You dried it. It came out furrier than it went in.

So the lint roller lives by the front door now, and maybe you've quietly stopped buying black.

If you live with a dog or cat, some of this probably sounds familiar:

Monday morning, you grab a fresh pair of black work pants out of the basket. On the train you look down in the window light: fur, all down both legs.

You spend the ride picking hairs off one at a time while the person next to you pretends not to watch.

Every one of them deals with fur after it has already landed back on your clothes.

The washer loosens the fur. Then it has nowhere to go

Water and tumbling do pull loose hair off the dog blanket. But a washer drum is a closed box. That hair floats around and settles onto whatever is next to it: the black shirt, the towels.

So the fur in your clean laundry isn't left over. It moved.

The problem isn't how you wash. It's that nothing in the drum catches the fur.

Put something in the drum that tumbles through the clothes and collects loose hair, and some of that fur ends up on it instead of on the next item.

It won't catch every strand. But every hair it catches is one less on your pants at 8 a.m.

So a real fix has to do three things

That's exactly what the Pet Hair Laundry Catcher Balls do.

Meet the Pet Hair Laundry Catcher Balls (6 per pack)

Here's how it works

Toss them in with the load. Loose hair collects on them, not the next shirt.

First load: shake the dog blanket outside, load the washer about three-quarters full, and add all 6 balls.

See the Buy 1, Get 1 Free offer

What changes this week

Next time you look down on the train, there's a lot less to pick off.

Dryer sheets and lint-roller refills get used up and rebought, month after month.

Two packs for $20

Every order is Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two packs, 12 balls in all, for $20. Keep one pack by the washer and one by the dryer.

Multi-pet house or a lot of laundry? The bigger bundles work the same way: 4 packs for $40 or 6 for $60.

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Here's what to do next

Get mine: 2 packs for $20

It’s your call

Or you can keep lint-rolling clean laundry

Tomorrow's load will come out like today's: fur on the black shirt, fur in the towels, the roller by the door.

Or you can toss six balls in tonight and peel the fur off them instead of off your pants.

Questions people ask

P.S. The short version: the washer loosens pet hair and moves it onto your other clothes. These soft balls tumble with the load and catch some of it, then rinse off for the next one. Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two packs (12 balls) for $20, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Get yours here.