End Pet Shedding with This Amazing Tool

The main complaint among cat and dog owners is shedding. Dog or cat hair can find its way into any part of our home. No matter how much vacuuming or scrubbing is done, there will always be some pet hair that escapes notice and shows up on our clothes or in our pasta.

My wife and I finally decided to make our inside house Labrador an outside dog the day our young baby boy crawled across the floor and looked up at us with a mouth full of black lab hair.

That day was six years ago and my kids are happy but my Labrador has never forgiven me.

Now at long last, there is a tool on the market that works so well at de-shedding, that my Labrador is once more an inside dog. The tool is called, the Furminator. It's a simple enough looking tool, basically a clipper type brush, but it does wonders on a shedding dog.

It was designed over a ten year span by pet enthusiasts that were fed up with constant brushing and shedding.

The designers understand that shedding is caused from the loose hair underneath the top layer of dog hair. It's this lower layer of hair that bunches up and falls off our pets with great abandon.

The Furminator works on stripping this lower layer of hair from the dog. It doesn't cut the hair, but gently pulls out the already loose hair; leaving the top layer intact.

With a normal brush my dog doesn't enjoy the process of brushing; her tail is usually between her legs and she looks at me as though I do it to punish her. But with the Furminator she actually seems to enjoy it. The product is a dog groomers' dream.

The first time I used it I was totally amazed with how much hair I removed in only 10 minutes of brushing. The dog hair literally covered the area I was working in. I never had to stop and pull the hair from the brush, it falls off by itself.

The store that sold me the Furminator had a video running showing the affects of the brush on a golden retriever. It was an impressive video, but I was skeptical as to how it worked in real life.

Since the Furminator is quite a bit more expensive than the run of the mill brush, I was ready to try the product and return it if it didn't work as advertised. Needless to say, I'm not giving it back. It has allowed me to bring my dog back inside even during the highest shedding time of the year.

The grooming tool also helps reduce dog dander which reduces allergens in the house. The tool is also supposed to stimulate the natural oils in a dog's skin to more readily come to the top layer of hair. This means the dogs' coat is shinier and certainly healthier. My labrador's normally dingy hair is shiny for the first time.

The Furminator comes in different sizes for different sized pets. Basically the only difference is in the width of the blade. For my medium sized Labrador, I have the 2.65" tool. They come smaller and larger depending on what you need.

They also have brushes specifically designed for cats and even horses. Since I don't own either of these I can't comment on them, but if they are anything like the dog product, they work.

I am in no way affiliated with the folks that designed or sell the Furminator, but I am totally sold on the amazing results from this grooming tool.