They rule your roost like furry kings and queens, steal your pillow on repeat and leave their paw-printed, drooly stamp on every surface. And you wouldn’t have it any other way. Though their hair rolls across your floor like tumbleweeds on an open range, you’ve surrendered — because it’s a losing battle.

Well, take heart: Your life doesn’t have to be controlled by fur any longer. Meet Speed Queen, the commercial-quality washer-dryer system that’s singlehandedly banishing errant floof from clothing as if it had never been there at all — so you can leave the house without wearing pet hair as a reluctant fashion statement.

Boning up on the benefits

Thanks to special settings and proprietary tech designed to ditch pet hair and odors, sanitize, and smooth out wrinkles, Speed Queen’s washers and dryers will get even the most pet-soiled laundry done in no time. For starters, the top-loading TR7 washer has eight special cycles, tailored to gently care for different fabrics, all while deep-cleaning pet grunge so everything looks and smells like new. (It’s also astonishingly quiet.) Then there’s the DR7 dryer, which features steam sanitization to help kill bacteria, anti-static tech and a refresh mode that will spruce up a formerly furry and wrinkled shirt in a flash.

For heavily hair-coated items (you know, the ones your lint roller has to give up on), the Pet Plus dryer cycles can be used as a quick 10-minute refresh to remove hair, or as part of a full three-step de-fuzzing and de-griming process when combined with the washer. You can use the Pet Hair Removal cycle, for instance, to relax fabric and thus release the hair before items go in the washer, so there’s less to clean up and a lower chance for the hair to migrate to other clothing. Then there’s the Pet Items cycle, designed for bulky laundry, like pet beds, that can be the toughest to dry thoroughly.

It’s that simple — just ask Trevor Hanke, a K9 police officer in Ripon, Wisconsin, whose four-legged partner, Rony, sheds year-round, as constantly evidenced by Hanke’s uniform and couch. “We have dog hair everywhere,” he says. “Laundry in our house was like a seven-day-a-week project.” But once Hanke started using the Speed Queen washer and dryer, “clothes and towels came out looking great,” he says. “We can grab something off the coat rack (dog hair and all), drop it in the dryer and 10 minutes later throw it on and go to work,” he says. “My family is a lot happier with less dog hair in it.”

Help for hairy situations

Before using the Speed Queen system, Custom Canines, a Madison, Wisconsin-based nonprofit that raises, trains and places service dogs with the disabled, had a laundry issue that was, well, going to the dogs. “We’d have to wash each load two or three times just to get the odor out,” says Nicole Meadowcroft, the organization’s president. But with Speed Queen on the scene, “after one wash, the towels smelled clean, not like wet dog.” And the DR7’s dryer cycle before washing has been a game-changer. “We’re always taking pictures of the piles of dog hair we’re getting off; it’s unbelievable,” she says. Meadowcroft, who’s visually impaired and uses a guide dog, also notes that the digital controls are extremely user-friendly: “The buttons are simple and easy to read.”

At the Great Pyrenees Rescue of Wisconsin (GPRW), a nonprofit rescue that finds forever-families for these gentle giants, up to a dozen dogs can be waiting for a home at any given time — which translates to shedding of epic proportions. The staff used to have to run empty rinse cycles just to remove leftover hair from its washer, and no matter how often they ran the laundry, the stink was a constant struggle.

But Speed Queen finally made all the laundry smell fresh again. “The dogs go crazy for the smell — like they don’t realize it’s the same blanket,” says Hanna Gonsalves of GPRW. “We used to have issues with them resoiling things because they could smell the last pet. Now that they can’t, we have less of that,” she says. Another plus: Gonsalves can get the hair out of all the dog blankets in just one load. “It takes about an hour and a half — it used to be all day long!” she says.

To find out more about how Speed Queen is leading the pack on dog-hair removal, click here.