Please don't overdo it---your cat will be bald.....
I was so excited to get this product, and jumped right in, and basically before I realized it, my poor cat Joey, a purebred Abyssinian, was bald on his back. I had inadvertently pulled out ALL of the undercoat on his upper back. His regular hair was still there, but he looked like Joe Biden before his plugs were put in........I had also done some damage to my two other kitties as they wandered in out and out of the blitz. The FURminator does not hold the hair like a traditional brush, so there's hair EVERYWHERE.......it should be used outside but my kitties are indoor only so that is not going to happen. I think that if you take a couple of swipes a week that the product will do what it's supposed to do, but it's a mess to clean up. You have to be careful that you don't leave giant chunks of loose fur ON the cat--obviously the cat is going to lick it off and then your hairball problems will be even worse. So.........maybe this is a great thing for dogs that are in the middle of a giant molt, but for my kitties, not so much! I will have it around for the springtime shed, but will use it only sparingly and will have the vacuum cleaner at hand to clean up the mess.
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