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I want to talk about car seats for a second. Specifically about how impossible they actually are to clean when you have a dog. I have a Malamute. He goes everywhere with me. Vet, trails, friends' houses, the beach. The back seat of my car has not looked like a car seat in probably eighteen months. It looks like the inside of a kennel. I have tried everything. The handheld vacuum: moves the hair around. Gets some of it. Leaves most of it electrostatically bonded to the upholstery where it has been since the last time I drove him somewhere. The lint roller: cannot physically bend around the headrest. Cannot reach the gap between the seat and the door panel. Cannot get into the seatbelt housing. Leaves half the surface untouched because it is flat and car seats are not. The rubber glove trick: works slightly better, but my hands cramp and it takes forty minutes and it still misses everything in the crevices. The detailing appointment: $180. Gone in two car rides. Here is the thing about pet hair in car upholstery that nobody explains clearly. The hair does not rest on the surface. Car seat fabric has a tight weave with a directional pile. Pet hair enters that pile and gets physically locked into the weave in a way that suction cannot reverse. You need something that goes into the weave and pulls the hair out against the direction it went in. That is what the PurePath Glove does. The electrostatic mesh conforms to the surface because it is on your hand — it wraps around headrests, pushes into gaps, reaches the crevice between the seat and the door panel. And the charge pulls the hair out of the weave instead of just moving air across the top of it. I cleaned my back seat with it last Sunday. It took eleven minutes. I found the original colour of the upholstery. My Malamute is already back there. But I am not paying for another detail.