FURminator!??!?!

[mickeysgal]

I bought the largest size on amazon.com for $33: http://www.amazon.com/FURminator-La...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1212720269&sr=8-1

I know I should have waited and ordered from Amazon, but my dogs were having a hard time in this heat. All that fur was making them so uncomfortable. It may be just me, but they look so much more comfortable tonight.

 

[Imzadi]

I'm sure, to your dogs, they appreciate the extra $30 you spent. It's probably like, if you ever had really long hair and then cut a lot of it off. You suddenly feel very light. You realize how much weight carrying around that hair actually was. I'm sure your dogs are much happier.

 

[disneyfreakk]

THANK YOU! so much for starting this thread! Our girls have been shedding like crazy, and I saw this thread the other day. I got them a furminator last night, and brushed them today!

It worked wonders on my Boston terrier, but I didn't get very much hair off of our pug. And from all of the pretty apricot hair ALL over my house, our pug is shedding! lol. Is there a trick for my pug?

Also, has anyone tried the shampoo/conditioner or the solution?

 

[Imzadi]

THANK YOU! so much for starting this thread! Our girls have been shedding like crazy, and I saw this thread the other day. I got them a furminator last night, and brushed them today!

It worked wonders on my Boston terrier, but I didn't get very much hair off of our pug. And from all of the pretty apricot hair ALL over my house, our pug is shedding! lol. Is there a trick for my pug?

Also, has anyone tried the shampoo/conditioner or the solution?

Pugs have very short hair right? Try a few short little 2" strokes in the same place, rather than long strokes down the whole back. I find the short little strokes work better at the neck of my short-haired cat, where her hair is shorter.

Also, if there's hair all over the house, it may not be shedding "day" for the pug today, and it's already all over the house. My kitty sheds in cycles. She sheds for a couple days, then stops for a few days. Then sheds again for 2 days.

 

[disneyfreakk]

Yes pugs are short haired. I was using short strokes when brushing.

Thank you for the suggestion, I will try to brush her again in a few days. My Boston terrier is a short hair too, so maybe my pug just got through with her current shed cycle! lol.

 

[Imzadi]

Note to Self: Do not furminate the cat in front of a fan.

 

[aprilvaca04]

We have a Yorkie/Lhasa mix...He doesn't really shed alot but his hair does get matted easily even if we comb him daily. Especially when his hair gets longer. Do you think this would help?

 

[PaulaSB12]

Has anyone used this! OH MY! I thought it was a joke...this little odd looking comb!
I borrowed from a friend. I have a yellow lab. It got so much hair off! I couldn't believe it! Best of all the next day we had less shedding! It took all her corse hair out! Left her with soft fur!
The thing cost about $50 at pet smart! But online it is around $30...
I must have one!

Mine arrived today and its amazing all I can say to you for mentioning it is


I have a rough collie and its working a dream better than anything I have brought so here we go again

 

[Chris2597]

We have a chihuahua/rat terrier mix. He has very corse short hair that sheds badly. Does the Furminator work on short hair or does the dog need to have a thick long coat?

 

[MichelleVW]

We have a chihuahua/rat terrier mix. He has very corse short hair that sheds badly. Does the Furminator work on short hair or does the dog need to have a thick long coat?

It works on my short hair cat. I know someone who uses it on her Jack Russell.

 

[DVC Sadie]

I sometimes sweep twice a day! We have hard wood floors and when the wind blows through the window the hair connects to form small balls and blows like tumble weeds!
Before we got her we were thinking about carpeting, we will stick w/ wood now!

I agree, especially with the tumbleweed reference!


I use to have to vacumn twice a day before our lab was furminated but now I am down to just once a day!

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

Wow! I'm getting one too-I always cringe whenever anyone comes over our house wearing black! I have had people sit on my couch and when they got up I am like But with 3 dogs I'm just used to hair

 

[majimikate]

For a Golden I assume the largest size is necessary? I vauum up "Mollyweeds" at least twice a day and I'd like to try something to fix that!!!!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Anybody have any experience with the Wal Mart variety: FurBuster? WE don't have a pet shop in the town where I go to school, so it was my only option. I haven't had time to try it yet.

 

[MichelleVW]

Anybody have any experience with the Wal Mart variety: FurBuster? WE don't have a pet shop in the town where I go to school, so it was my only option. I haven't had time to try it yet.

Just go to Amazon.com and look for one. You can usually find a good price there.

 

[mickeyfan1]

If you buy one from QVC beware that they are a unique size and you have to buy the replacement blades from them.

I also have a pug, if I brush him with a slicker brush, I can usually get 3 brush fulls every 3 or 4 days off of him. And I also use a rubber brush because he hates the slicker, the wire teeth are too tickly for him. The rubber brush really pulls out a lit of loose hairs. We always brush outside and the hair just blows everywhere. I don't think there is anything made that keeps dogs from shedding, I just have to brush my pug every 3 days or so. His shedding days - EVERY day.

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

Mickeyfan - thanks - I WAS just going to order from QVC and I saw the 3 sizes, but did not see replacement blades! Does it work at all on pugs or is it just wishful thinking?


I know we can't stop shedding - but if we can just REDUCE the number the hairs?

Yeah-right

I actually went through four vacuums in 5 years! I also killed a Dyson! I ended up telling my DH I needed a central vac- sure enough after the Dyson incident I got one!

 

[mickeyfan1]

Mickeyfan - thanks - I WAS just going to order from QVC and I saw the 3 sizes, but did not see replacement blades! Does it work at all on pugs or is it just wishful thinking?


I know we can't stop shedding - but if we can just REDUCE the number the hairs?

Yeah-right

I actually went through four vacuums in 5 years! I also killed a Dyson! I ended up telling my DH I needed a central vac- sure enough after the Dyson incident I got one!

I bathe Chu every couple of weeks, we live in the desert and have only dirt in our yard, so between the heat and the dust, he gets that old pork chop smell about him. After his bath, he gets brushed. I use the rubber brush first, then I use the slicker brush. A slicker brush, for those who don't know, is a wire brush with very fine gauge bristles that are bent at about a 35 degree angle. I brush him from his tail to his neck until the brush is full, then I brush from neck to tail till it's full. Then the rubber brush again, and I do it really fast, it seems to really pull out the hairs. Then once more with the slicker. He had a bath on Saturday and still looks good, but when we went to get his nails trimmed yesterday, there was a lot of hair in the car, so this evening, after it's less than 100, it's brushing time again. The groomer shaves her pug, but I don't see the point. All that hair is just gonna grow back.


I don't want a furminator because we have a good system and I am cheap. I guess others like them for their pugs, but I am happy with what we do.

If we all saved up all the pug hair, we could make lots of new non hungry, non snoring pugs!

 

[muffyn]

curious, does this work better than a slicker brush on a retriever?

anyone compared them?

I have 2 other short coats , a pug ( which someone already mentioned) & a bassett,, which I doubt the furminator would help much.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I am getting ready to try my Wal-mart version, wish me luck!

I completely understand where other posters are coming from when they say they worry about people wearing black. Between my two dogs and my two cats, fur is a fashion accessory. When I go clothes shopping, I base decisions partly on what will and won't hold fur. It's kind of sad really.