FURminator Curry Comb, Dog Comb with Rubber Teeth for Short and Medium Coats

This is so good!!! I can finally get that undercoat out and my dog loves it. She’s a Pomeranian/chihuahua/rat terrier/lab mix, with short smooth coat. We’ve tried the brush with the little bent wires, it didn’t work and she didn’t like it. This tool is a breeze to use, I was so excited I even bought the Furminator shedding shampoo and that helped even more. We use the brush outside about once a week and that seems to keep the shedding down. I can’t wait to try it on my friends dogs, there’s something so satisfying about the hair coming out!

If you have a Staffordshire bull terrier, you really need this brush! It works so good in a pits fur! Best brush I've gotten for girl so far! Highly recommended!

20200514: This remains my go-to brush for the porcupine dog. Her hair is like the top coat of a labrador - kind of soft, kind of stiff, and she has no undercoat. No other brush gets the hair off. I can brush her straight or I can use it like a true curry comb and go in circles - doesn't matter, the hair falls off. It works magic on my triple-coated pup, and the medium-haired cat, too. I used to use a shedding blade on both of them, but this is gentler and they tolerate it for far longer. I only wish that darn strap was adjustable. Works left or right-handed.I think perhaps folks who are complaining aren't realizing where the hair is going. I have three dogs: Dachshund, Boxer mix, Husky / Spitz mix and feel I can give a wide spectrum review due to the disparity of coats they have.The Boxer mix (50% Golden Retriever, 25% Boxer, 25% American Staffordshire Terrier, but her hair is nothing like a Golden (her personality is, though, woot!), more like a Lab so we'll go with Boxer): Her hair doesn't come off with a pin brush, bristle brush, or shedding blade. She has no real undercoat to speak of like a Lab would, just that coarse long top coat. Curry comb is the Only thing that takes hair off of her, But . . . her hair doesn't stick to the comb so it didn't seem to be doing anything. Until I looked at the ground. It falls to the ground like a rain of hair - think of a dried up Christmas tree when it's bumped, it practically explodes in a mess of needles. That's my Boxer mix. I can see the hair pouring off her when I brush her. As further proof the thing does its job, I used to have to sweep daily and would get a handful of hair. Now that I brush her 5 -10 minutes daily I sweep up less than a handful weekly. That's not to mention the hair no longer polluting my couch, her beds, or our bed! I will absolutely spend 5 - 10 minutes each day brushing her out if it means no more clogged washing machine filter and less sweeping. So while I'm not saving much time, I get to bond more with my pup instead of sweeping. I'll gladly take that trade.The Dachshund (100% mini pain-in-the-a$$, er, Dachshund): Her hair doesn't fall off and it barely attaches to the brush. Instead it piles up neatly on her body. This is pretty cool because IL can see how much hair is coming off of her and then I can scoop it off of her and toss it outside for the birds to use in their nests. She's 9 lbs and the picture is of the hair I got off her in less than 2 minutes of brushing slowly. That's an impressive pile for so little time from such a small body. She's arthritic so I have to be gentle with her, yet I had good success in shedding her coat. This worked better than the deshedding tool.The Husky / Spitz mix (he's 25% Husky, 50% German Spitz, 25% Cocker Spaniel watered down with goodnes-knows-what, but the Husky / Spitz coat around his mantle is apparent; therefore for the purpose of this review, he's a Husky / Spitz mix): This dude does best with the shedding blade - I'm talking tufts of hair flying up in the wind like a pillow was opened up and shaken out. The shedding blade is my preferred method for him; however, the curry comb is a nice finisher to smooth his coat and smear that oil around so he's nice and shiny. I have a knock off of the FuRminator shedding tool as well, but the blade still wins. His hair sticks to the curry comb a little bit, but the comb is nowhere near as fast as the shedding blade for him. I just have to be careful not to shed him too much or he'll have bald spots. Did that once to my cat and it was pretty sad looking.To address the reviewer's complaint about the rubber separating form the comb - I call BS. That looks like a dog chewed on it. I tried to wedge my very thin fingernail between the rubber and the plastic and it was a no go. I tried to pry up the rubber with my fingers and it didn't budge. That rubber is on there to stay. Their dog either ate it or they got a defective comb.Pros:CompactTakes hair off an otherwise impossible to brush dogLightweightCons:The strap is tight - I can barely get my long slender lady fingers through the strapNormally I can find a few things to mention for cons, but I'm coming up empty with this product. Might other combs do a better job? Sure. Is this one worth a try? Yes.Dear FuRminator: if ever you discontinue this product due to negative reviews, please feel free to send the surplus supply to me.20190314 Update: Still loving it. It's intact and working Great. My dog sits still for me to brush / comb her with this even with squirrels twitching and frolicking 20 feet in front of her. It's a little tougher to use on my longer-haired dog and a shedding blade is more efficient for him; however, before the blade starts irritating him I can switch to the curry comb and get a little further in the grooming than I was able to before obtaining the comb.

This little curry brush is okay but nothing like I had been lead to expect from reviews. Furminator brand always seems to have far better reviews that the actual products perform. This thing has a tiny, non-adjustable strap handle that doesn't really work well with a large sized hand. Not a deal breaker, since the shape of it makes it easier to grip without having to use the strap, but not ideal especially if you have arthritis as I do. The curry part is hard "rubber" ( I would actually consider this to be plastic, not rubber) and it really doesn't do much to grab loose hair, (as rubber or silicon would) which may be because I have single coated pugs and their fur is hard/slick rather than soft/puffy and while it loosens hair as I use it, it doesn't do anything to hold it for collection, so really I might as well not be using a brush at all. On the pro side, my slightly-difficult-to-brush dog will tolerate this curry, where he wouldn't let me touch him with a standard furminator. Also, it is reasonably priced and it was delivered promptly. That said, I will now go order an actual rubber curry brush, which is what I was shopping for before I saw this one, because I really need a grooming tool that 1) will loosen dead hair 2) will hold hair onto that hair until I can get it into a trash can, rather than on my floor, and 3) is soft enough that my dogs enjoy being brushed with it, rather than just tolerating it.

My Frenchie hates getting brushed until I used this one. He loves it!! He lays still now and grunts. Lol that's a good sign.

Great product, speedy shipping, excellent experience with seller