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 give your babies a gift that keeps on giving! May 30, 2005
Blueskygal (Tucson, Arizona United States)
52 out of 53 found this review helpful
at last -- a solution for pet hair that works! i have two domestic short hair tabbies who produce copious amounts of hair. they suffer from hairballs and are constantly throwing them up. i saw this tool on home shopping tv and instantly bought it. it is fantastic and gets both the top hair and the undergrowth off. my catties love it! they love to be groomed now as it does not hurt them the way other brushes do. i was amazed at how much hair came off them. plus it is very gratifying to do this for your pet. their coats come out beautiful and soft. you can really see the difference on them. well built and durable. WORTH EVERY PENNY. i saw it on hsn tv and bought it from hsn for about $30 which included shipping. got here very fast. works on dogs too.
WELL worth the cost! October 22, 2006
A. McCallum (Minnesota, United States)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
I live in Minnesota and have a twelve-year old German Shepherd who lives indoors year-round. Her undercoat EXPLODES in the spring and fall when the weather changes so drastically, and there is simply no way to keep up with all of the brushing and vacuuming that is needed during the shedding seasons. Until... along came the FURminator!
Believe me that I had tried everything on this dog for eleven years - shedding blades, slicker brushes, rubber brushes, metal combs, pin brushes, bristle brushes, the rubber Zoom Groom, rubber curry combs, shed-reducing diet-supplements, shampoos, conditioners and sprays... every product on the store shelves, and every new product that came out on the market I thought could help with the endless shedding. But alas, every brush and comb and glob of goop was as worthless as the last in the fight against the fur.
So when FURminator came out, I thought, why the heck is this brush so expensive? Could it really be worth the money? I saw that advertising image they use of the dog sitting with his fur in a giant half-circle on the floor all around him, and his coat looking flat and smooth. I wanted my dog to look like that! I imagined all of those piles of fur being slowly embedded in the carpet throughout the house over the course of the shedding seasons, and the constant battle to vacuum it all up. I was tired of that, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I've had the FURminator for about a year now, as I wanted to really test it out and make sure it continued to be as impressive as when I first got it, and it has. Every time I take it from its peg on the wall, my dog knows that it's time to get all that itchy, yucky, uncomfortable fur out of her coat for good, so she stands as quiet as a princess as I pull out heaps of hair (outdoors, of course.) The tufts of hair are so light and fluffy, that I also get the added joy of watching birds come pick up the puffs to build their nests in the spring. It has cut grooming down to about a quarter of the time I used to spend, with better results than I ever got before, when I armed myself with my box of brushes and sprays. This is the only brush I will ever use on any undercoated dog.
The FURminator is more than a brush - it is truly a grooming tool. You will not be disappointed.
 Yes, it works. January 14, 2006
Katy Lake (The People's Republic of New Jersey)
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
And I say it as an expert on just about any product that promises to reduce pet hair shedding, or make the clean up of it easier.
I have a Norwegian Elkhound, one very compact, highly intelligent, gorgeous and HAIRY dog. She has both a long coat and a very prolific downy white undercoat that seemingly sheds 24/7. It's got a cotton ball texture; tufts of it stick out, and if you pull it, you get a pouf of very soft white down that is guaranteed to stick to you and everything in its path.
My former regimen was to use a rubber curry brush for the long outer coat, and (the part I hate), an undercoat rake. No matter how much I brush her, I'm covered with hair, and there's a grocery bag FULL of hair. It's an hour to two hour task, and as much as I love my dog, a huge, hairy nuisance!
When I got the Furminator, I was impressed with the heft of it. I bought the large size with the idea that it'd be that much less effort (generally speaking, the small size is the cheapest, but it's so small, it would take forever on anything but the smallest or unhairiest dog. And the difference in price between the medium and large is, at most places, only a few bucks. If you're going to invest in the furminator, go for the size that makes the most out of every pass over the dog's coat.)
So I tried a few swoops on the dog. And yeah, it resulted in a ton of hair, but if I just run my fingers through her coat, I get pretty much the same result.
I got a grocery bag (to store the hair pulled off the comb) and set to work. On the initial combing, it took a little less than the usual hour it does. What was interesting, though, is that I used only the Furminator, not the undercoat rake and curry comb combo I usually use. In that sense, it was less time and effort.
The bag, as usual, was full. But the thing that really sold me on the Furminator is how good her coat looked. Very professional looking, like she had just gotten back from the groomer's.
Now it's a few days later, and lo and behold, one of the promises the maker of the Furminator made seems to actually be true: there is less loose hair on her. Usually I see long hairs and some of those fluffy white tufts peeking up, but that's not the case after her de-Furmination. NO loose hair, no undercoat tufts!
I can say that, based on me trying just about every comb, method, and grooming device, this is the first time my dog's been this relatively hairless since I got her.
The Furminator promises that there will be less of a hair problem with its use. All I can say is that based on one thorough use of it, that claim seems to be true. I'd recommend it (and it does have a 30 day money-back guarantee from the manufacturer.)
The only reason why I'm not five-starring this is because of the price. I still don't see why it's so expensive, and I got a good price on it w/shipping (I paid $40 and that's still too much!) I'm also worried about the cost of replacement blades for this. There's simply no reason it should cost so much!
I'd also recommend you shop around for price. I got the best deal on this (including shipping) from an ebay store (not a regular auction.) Just beware the shipping prices on places that seem to be cheap.
 There's a sucker born every minute June 22, 2006
Dot (Pawleys Island, SC)
38 out of 47 found this review helpful
I actually make a living writing reviews. Not of pet products, but audio-recording equipment. I saw the Furminator ads on TV, and then started researching on the net, where I wound up here at Amazon.
I have a Border Collie who sheds like BC's like to shed. We'd moved away from our usual groomer, and I wanted a solution to cut down on the shedding. I bought the whole thing; hook, line, and sinker from PetSmart. Got the large Furminator Tool, Furminator Shampoo, and Furminator Conditioner.
$100 I plunked down - 'cause we love our dog, and nothing is too good for her. : )
It was the biggest waste of $100 I've ever spent.
I used everything according to the instructions. I even spoke with someone at PetSmart about it. It took some hair off my dog - but I could have done that with my hand.
We just moved back to our old area, and our dog is now back at her regular groomer - and looking more beautiful than ever. I even asked the groomer about the Furminator - thinking I would offer her mine to try out. She opened a draw and pulled one out that she'd gotten at a trade show. She said - point blank - that the Furminator was no good. She'd used it a couple of times, and it had been sitting in her drawer ever since.
Unfortunately, my wife threw out the bag with the receipt, so there's no possibility for sending all this junk back to Furminator for a refund.
I don't know who the people here are who are writing these glowing reviews. I recommend products all the time. But I would not recommend the Furminator or the shampoo or conditioner at all.
disappointment July 10, 2005
C. Cain
34 out of 46 found this review helpful
I have a Welsh Corgi, otherwise known as a shedding machine. Another Corgi owner told me how well the Furminator worked on his dog, so I bought one. The Furminator removes undercoat VERY slowly, as in hardly at all. My curry comb was one-third the price and takes out undercoat about five times faster. My advice is to save a lot of money and time with a curry comb and slicker brush.
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