A little product placement for this Friday. In an effort to be transparent, I must say I am NOT getting anything from the FURminator® people, I simply bought this brush and liked it enough to tell you about it.*
Before Christmas, A & I hit up Petsmart to look at the animals and ended up (surprise) buying some stuff. We ended up getting a FURminator deShedding tool for cats, which claims to be a “professional cat deShedding™ tool”. I’d seen the ad before and it had a 30 day money-back guarantee, so we figured we’d give it a shot.
So that’s what it looks like. Kinda like a sex toy with a comb on the end. The purple is nice. I dig it.
Anyhow, if you look at the website, or have seen the tv ad, or hell, even looked at the back of the package, you’d probably think the thing is too good to be true. They show dogs and cats beside piles of their own hair, supposedly removed from a single “Furminator shed-less treatment”. (Which is, without using their jargon, just a good going-over with the weird looking brush.) We were skeptical at first, but it soon became clear that there was something to this brush…
That’s the pile we got from old Kiki the first time we used it. Certainly not bad. The fur came out in giant electrically-charged tufts that clung to everything, including Kiki herself. It didn’t even feel like her regular hair… since the brush mostly removes her “undercoat” or something. It’s even a different colour. Anyhow, we’ve probably used it about a dozen times over the past two months. That’s fewer times than we would have used her other brush, but that’s only because we don’t need to brush as often, since it removes a ton of fur each time. Kiki was a little hesitant at first, probably because it feels different from her other brush, but now she’s completely cool with it. In fact, “brush” is her second favourite word now, after “treats”.
And it definitely has cut down on the shedding. There are far fewer dust bunnies roaming around the apartment lately.
So yeah, it’s a pricey brush, about $50, but in all fairness, it is a pretty solid brush. Literally and figuratively. Knock about $20 off that price and it would be perfect.
*But if you want to send me free shit in the hopes that I’ll blog about it, go for it. You never know.
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Huh. I’ve seen that in the pet stores, and thought hard about getting one, but wasn’t sure if the claims were true. Thanks for blogging about it and showing that it’s exceptionally effective!
Em Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
no problem! if you’ve got the money for it, it’s definitely worth it. If it doesn’t work for you, there is always the money-back guarantee.
Good lord. That is incredible. My grans cat could do with one of those!
I LOVE my Furminator….. We kept buying new brushes to deal with Morty’s hair, but as soon as we got it, we were kicking ourselves for not buying it earlier.