Has anyone here ever reached the end point using a FURminator?

[NRaleighLiberal]

What a superb tool - but we've got two chocolate labs and I swear I could spend days FURminating them and still be producing additional dogs-ful of fur!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Using a Furminator I got enough fur off my smallest cat

to build another cat with, but there seems to be no end to it. I don't know where all that fur comes from; it seems to be infinite. The cat should be bald after being Furminated and producing a couple bushels of fur, but she's as hairy as ever.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Exactly! my three cats and two dogs - maybe the furminator is a 3D pet printer!

[Tien1985]

3. This.

I have a springer-mix and his fur is never ending. It's almost like a magician's scarves (only they eventually run out of scarves).

[Phentex]

7. Ha! I was going to say...

we brush off a small dog when using the furminator. It never ends but with daily use the new dog gets smaller and smaller.

[IrishAyes]

4. It's a great tool for MOST dogs

However, the only thing that does well for heavily double-coated dogs like Chows (and, I've heard, Huskies) is a long tooth rake with rotating or twirling tines. Even then there's no end to it. A sign of good health maybe. In shedding season if I missed a single day raking those dogs, the undercoat would still drop by the chunk almost. In summer I just took the scissors to them and told everybody they were punkers.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. I guess that I am just a failure

but it never worked for me. I got very little hair from my cat with one. The best thing that I have found for my cat is one of those brushes with fine wires.

My furminator resides in my junk drawer.

[MadrasT]

11. It depends on the cat's coat

It works great on most of my cats, but I have one where I guess the texture of her coat just doesn't match what the Furminator is designed to do and the same thing happens.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. In a word: No. More effective for us, we've found, is the attachment for our Dyson vacuum.

The wire fingers are gentle on the skin but dig deep and get lots of hair on each pass.



Our GSD is our worst shedder, by far. She sheds year round and routinely puts down a Shih-Tzu's worth of fur each day, it seems.

We vacuum her for a minute or so and that's usually all it takes to cut down a day's shedding to a tolerable level. On the other hand our (much lighter shedding) Border Collie runs from the vacuum, so we never get to do her at all. The little Shih-Tzu has hair, not fur, and sheds no more than a human.

The fact is, if you live with pets, you live with shed fur.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Looks nifty - but vacuums and cats don't coexist well.

The Furminator is enough of a struggle...

[Adsos Letter]

9. Let me know if you figure out a solution...

We've got a female Beauceron whose FURminating sessions produce a quantity of hair sufficient to clothe a city of some size.

And still, at the end of it, she stands there looking untouched...

[Phentex]

13. I hope the birds use it...

they used to peck the fur of one of our old dogs. I sweep this off the deck and hope they find it.

[love_katz]

10. I just keep on Furminating until...

the amount of fur coming off my cat seems to start decreasing, or the cat runs out of patience.

So, in a word...no.

I tease my cat that I get enough loose hair off of her to build another cat.

What I do like about this tool: my cat feels soooooooo soft after I am done grooming her with it. And, it cuts down on the hair ball problem, and she seems to feel better afterwards. The loose undercoat hair seems to make her feel itchy and irritated, so I can observe that she is much more comfortable and relaxed after having the loose stuff removed.

[MadrasT]

12. No and I have wondered the same thing with some of my cats

It seems like fur would keep coming off as long as I was willing to sit there furminating (and the cat was cooperating).

Long after the time I think they all should be naked, the Furminator is still collecting Great Mounds Of Fur.