Comments on: Why isn’t my cat bald?

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:59:50 +0000

Ah! I was wondering how that worked.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:49:08 +0000

What it does is it grabs the individual hairs a little more firmly than a regular brush would, and therefore it pulls out the undercoat hairs that were just about to fall out, as well as the ones that are already falling out. You get more with each session, and your animal feels and looks a lot better because the undercoat isn’t shed and then trapped. Works with any animal that has an undercoat, really. Dogs, cats, longhaired rabbits.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:05:33 +0000

John, as far as I can tell, this is mostly getting rid of the undercoat on the cats. I don’t understand how it works, but the cats really are generating less random fur and their coats look healthier. …sigh… I sound like an infomercial.

By: John Charny

John Charny — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:47:33 +0000

I did look on furminator.com but it doesn’t really describe how it is different from just brushing a cat.

By: John Charny

John Charny — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:40:15 +0000

How does this furminator work? What does it look like. We have 3 cats now. It’s been cool here until this week so they are just starting to really shed. John

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:15:06 +0000

We don’t get this much off Maggie, the longhair, every time. I don’t know what it is about Marlowe.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:14:27 +0000

He has a gray undercoat.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:14:01 +0000

Thanks, Julia. Fixed it!

By: -d-

-d- — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:24:02 +0000

Is that off of Marlow? I see a lot of gray in that pile and I thought he was jet black.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:23:21 +0000

LJ HTML is broke, babe.

And I get the same amount off the bunny…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/kwanboa1/daynaface2.jpg

By: JennaW

JennaW — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:49:18 +0000

I’m not getting quite that much fur out of the girls, but a LOT each time, and they are so much softer and I am getting a lot more fur than a normal brushing would bring up every time.

Stunning really. And delightful. So glad you recommended this!

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:06:37 +0000

Seriously! It’s like the furminator is cloning him.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:05:56 +0000

You see my confusion.

By: -e-

-e- — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:14:03 +0000

on first glance, I thought that WAS the cat…

By: Mike F

Mike F — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:49:55 +0000

That’s from one cat?! When I first saw it I thought it was some kind of small rug made out of fur or something. If that is no a testament to the power of the Furminator, I don’t know what is.