---MIKE--- wrote:
I just got a new top load washing machine. My old one had a lint trap
on top of the pedestal but the new one does not. The people at Lowes
tell me that washing machines have not had lint traps for at least ten
years. I am concerned because I have cats and the lint trap on my old
machine used to collect lots of cat hair. Where will all this hair go
now?

In the lint screen in the dryer, in the dryer body, and all throughout the
dryer ducting.

The "problem" with washing machine lint traps is that the consumers didn't
clean them out regularly, and they were a source of mold. My machine has
one, and I couldn't imagine purchasing a machine without one (I do keep it
cleaned regularly, of course).

Jon