FURminator® Launches Two New-and-Improved deShedding Tools
FURMINATOR GIVEAWAY
FURminator and Catster are giving away one FURminator classic a day to cats who are members of Catster’s FURminator group. Click here to enter — you can enter once each day through the end of the contest.
GOT CAT HAIR?
If you read Skeezix’s review of the FURminator a few months ago, you’d know we swear by the tool as the most effective way of grooming cats to remove loose hair and prevent hairballs. I’ve been a huge FURminator fan since the tool was launched and was recently given the opportunity to test drive a pair a new-and-improved FURminator shedding tools: the FURminator Double Edge deShedding Tool and the fur-ejecting “FURminator FURejector.”
The timing was excellent. We’d just had a couple of back-to-back heat waves that invariably ratchet up the amount of fur that the cats shed. Trying out each of the two tools on three different cats, I removed the hair shown in the pile in the photo above after just one session. Although FURminator classic scarcely needs to be improved upon, these new tools offer some benefits that might fit your grooming needs.
FURminator Double Edge deShedding Tool
<With two blades instead of one, this version of the FURminator removes cat hair twice as fast. This is a boon for two of my cats, Rocky and Trip. Rocky suffers from hyper stimulation on his back, a common affliction that causes discomfort after a only a little bit of petting or grooming. If you have a cat who recoils when pet or brushed on her back, you know what I mean. Rocky enjoys the FURminator — he settles in and purrs like crazy when I FURminate him, but he gets overstimulated quickly along his back which ends the session (I usually groom him everywhere else and leave the back for last). The back is the area that needs the most grooming, however — it’s the point most difficult for cats (especially geezer cats like Rocky) to reach.
The double-blade FURminator proved to be helpful with Rocky because I can capture twice the hair with each stroke.
Trip (shown in the photo above) is a formerly feral cat who still has the soul of a wild child, and he’s not always convinced that my grooming him is a good thing. Sometimes he glares at me with a look that cries, “Why are you stealing my furs?” He starts each session well, cranks up his purr-o-meter, appears to be lovin’ it, but half the time will get bitey a few minutes into the session. He tips the scale at 20 lbs. and sports needle-sharp teeth, so I’m not inclined to argue with him.
Since he’s young, he grooms himself more aggressively than my other cats, thus he tends to ingest a lot more cat hair, which translates into more hair balls. So he needs more FURmination.
As with Rocky, the double-blade FURminator grabs twice the hair with every stroke, so that even though many of his grooming sessions are short, they’re twice as effective. It’s a win.
The FURminator FURejector deShedding Tool
This FURminator has an ejector blade that self-cleans when depressed, making grooming faster and easier. This is handy; I really liked the feature. It’s an excellent solution if you have squirmy cats and need a hand free to hold them in place during a grooming session.
SUMMARY
Both are exceptional grooming tools. The pile of cat hair shown in top photo resulted from just one FURmination session with three of my cats.
The Double Edge FURminator cuts grooming time in half, very helpful if your cats don’t tolerate grooming very well, or if you want to get the most bang out of each minute spent grooming. The FURminator FURejector is especially handy if you can benefit from one-handed grooming, as you might when dealing with energetic, squirming cats. I eagerly await a double edge version of the FURejector.
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH ALL THAT FUR?
Here are some suggestions:
- It’s a great material for birds to use as nesting material. Put the fur in a clean wire mesh suet container or mesh bag and hang it in a tree in the Spring and early summer.
- Make your cat a wig.
- Make a cat hair handbag.
- Make a felted animal figure representing your cat.
WOAH! I had no idea there was a FURminator Double Edge deShedding Tool! We just have the regular one (yellow handle).
Off to find this!
Hi Skeezy, We have a regular one and it works just great. You’d think Bosco would be bald after using it, but that doesn’t happen! It really helps clean up the loose hairs, especially during the shedding season.
Pfft! That’s not that much fur. You should see what Mistress got out of me last week! It was a Holy Mountain of Fur! Thanks a lot FURminator!
I got furminated last night with the “classic” tool. I lurvs how cleaner and happier i feel afterword. Now to find that double edge!
We love ours!! We were testing them through our vet when they came out. Mom didn’t want to buy another one since we had the older one but the vet let us have it for free. If you have the older one it is just as good in IMHO.
Rocky is one handsome mancat after his furminating! He reminds me of Gleek!
I am much too think skinned for the Furminator but Coco loves it and so does Mouse. I do like to play with the fur toys.
How about a fur toy or sculpture contest?
BTW Isn’t that Tripper?
I don’t use the Furminator, but is sure sounds like a great tool. I eat Dinovite instead. At first, it tasted funny, so I wasn’t so sure, but now, I feel like a million bucks. Plus, I don’t have those coughin’ fits because of those darn hairballs.
Wow, I was just telling Athena how much I shed and leave tons of fur around the apartment! Now this would really make mom happy!!! Must try and get one! Thanks Skeez!!
Happy Tuesday Everyone,
T.
We got one of these FURminator thingys a few months ago and boy is it good, even on my own short and silky coat! Mummy got an amazing number of furs out of me and has no doubt saved me a number of yucky furballs in the process. With gentle use a FURminator can even be used safely on my kittens once they get to the point where they are loosing their baby fluffs and starting to grow real furs of their own. Again this has probably saved me a number of yucky furballs!
My half-brother Ramses just adores the FURminator as it gets to the bottom of his deeper pile furs and gets all his loose under fluffs out and better still, he just goes into raptures over a good FURminating!
This too has saved me many furballs which really aren’t that ladylike to have to yack up…
Even the ever grumpy Tigmut’hep has found he can tolerate a FURminating, though like Tripper he’s a little hypersensitive and generally hates all brushing. But the FURminator works so well and so fast that even his yucky looking back furballs are pretty much a thing of the past round here – a great boon for my Daddy who always seemed to be the one who found them, even the one Tigmut’hep hid in his slippers…
All this talk of grooming is making my furs itch for a good FURminating, better go bug Mummy now!