The Furminator

5 s corral

hi
i have the med one i only use it on sheba the gsd
my shelties coats are to thick.
jamie

cham

I use the Furminator on my Golden Retriever. I love it, it is an immense help when she starts to blow her coat. I basically use it every day when she starts blowing, then I go to every other day or so during the summer and early fall. The days I don't use the Furminator I just use her brushes, and always have the Matbreakers at hand to use if necessary, along with hairdressing shears, and thinning shears also.
It seems like a lot of work, but I try to do it outside so the birds have nesting materials, Hailey doesn't mind most of the time, especially with sufficent bribery.

dukekota

I love furminator!

I use the waterless shampoo on Duke, but I can't say I've seen much of a difference.

2dogday

The Furminator is great for our long haired aussie mix. I alternate the furminator with the Zoom groom to cut down on hair all over the house this time of year.

SMoore

It's hard to use it and not break coat but unless you're showing or something I don't see where it matters all that much. I would worry more about brush burn and irritating the skin with too much use.

When I use it on my dogs I use it with a rake and/or slicker brush. I'll use the rake to loosen up the undercoat and then brush it out with the slicker and then use the furminator to get whatever was left behind. The rake and slicker don't do much damage to the coat/skin and that way i'm not constantly brushing on the coat with only the furminator.

It also only works well for short to medium double coated breeds. I would never use this product on a Great Pyrenees or Newfoundland or even a long haired Saint Bernard. It just doesn't work that well or get down to their undercoat. For those dogs i'd use a simple rake/slicker combo.

It works great on my husky mix, German Shepherds, Labs, etc..

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Nusi

We have 5 dogs and i purchased the furminator several years back when we only had our one oldest dog. She is a Pharoah Hound and it works great on her. Now we have 4 other dogs, 2 labs - one catahoula and a poodle mix, i have noticed the furminator does not work the same on different breeds. It hardly works on the Catahoula and does a fairly good job on the lab except were they have a lot of really flabby skin.

I still think it is a good product,it just has different results on different coats.

sammybrown65

We have a gsd that is shedding like there's no tomorrow. Has anyone tried this product on a gsd? I wasn't sure if it would work because of their double coat.

thanks

Never mind...I just saw germanshepherdmama's reply...

apoirier594

I have had the FurMinator for two weeks so far, it is so worth 60 dollars. But get one on amazon for 30, I ordered the large yellow 4" kind, cost 60 dollars in PetsMart but on Amazon only 30 for a bran new one, Works very well, will post a new thread in a few days or a weeks or 2. Just saying right now it works wonders

Mads

I use it and it is great! except it had said not to use in on non shedding dogs.. but i used it on my maltipoo. She still ends up shedding a bit but i think that is from the matting she gets once in a while.. I will probably only use the furminator once a month, but have you guys heard anything about it not being used on smaller supposedly non shedding dogs?

d9v1f4c

My wife and I recently purchased the medium sized Furminator. I think we had gotten our hopes set a little high at first, Don't get me wrong we absolutely love the product now and it has severely cut down on shedding and the amount of hair in our home. Also if used in conjunction with the Furminator shampoo and conditioner it works better obviously. People get super high expectations and expect to see their yard or living room covered in piles and piles of hair when done, this is not the case at least for short haired dogs, for long hair dogs probably. In the photos/videos used to advertise long-haired dogs/cats are used so it shows a ridiculous amount of hair on the floor. My wife and I have two dogs, a beagle and a great dane, it works extremely well on them, gets there under coat out and makes there coat nice and fresh, and after thinking about it, it actually does get quite a bit off of them. It will not hurt the dogs if used properly, also if you were to just keep brushing the dog over and over and over it would eventually go bald. It is definitely a great product and I recommend it to anyone looking to reduce the amount of shedding and loose hair in your home, as well as your clothes and hand when you pet them.

Charis

We bought a furminator after we got our rescue sibe. She was shedding like crazy and no brush was making a difference. It makes me a huge wonderful amazing difference! I use it on all three of our dogs and the cat and it pulls off tons of hair easily. In fact I got enough hair off of my aussie today to make a chihuahua. I haven't seen it break their coats or hurt them. I just go easy on them and don't brush them to often with it.

ACampbell

I LOVE my furminator. I use it on the Golden Retriever and my GSD. I love the waterless shampoo too, it smells fantastic. I have the biggest one you can buy, got it brand-new in the package for $30 because they'd opened it, never used it, and the store wouldn't take it back - I love Craigslist for those kind of finds. It also had the waterless shampoo in it.

However, I only use it every couple of weeks, between that I use a regular double sided brush and/or a slicker brush (depends on the dog) it does cut Jasper's coat because the guard hairs are long, but since he gets matted easily I don't care, it's not like we're showing or anything. It doesn't seem to cut Lacey's guard hairs though.

fleurdepup

We have a black lab and white carpet...obviously not a great combination but using the furminator has really creased the amount of stray hair that shows up around the house. what a great invention!!

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