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6.11.07

messy floor?: (a product review, with punctuation)

so with the two dogs we have a lot of dog hair. And dog no. 2 - or, well both of them - they shed twice a year. On schedule. Only dog no. 2 missed his spring shed this year so he has been extra fuzzy. And so our floor is always fuzzy, and now that we have hardwood floors instead of carpet you notice it a lot more, and also now that we have no yard for them to be outside in for a large part of the day, they shed more inside, obviously. Our floors here are much hairier than our floors were in texas. And so we got this new thing, a furminator, which is like a pointy little metal comb thing. Most dog combs are metal, i guess: but this one is very pointy, and does not cut hair, but pulls out all the undercoat stuff. And it is wonderful on dog no. 1, the shepherd-heeler theoretical mix. On dog no. 2, the spitz-chow-coyote-god-knows-what theoretical mix, we currently have a wide stripe down the middle of his back de-undercoated, but he still has, um, a lot of fur in other places. It works best on unmatted hair, of course, and we got all of that out in the first twenty-four hours of owning said furminator (it's kinda fun to say: try it. The process is apparently termed furmination). And now it's uncovered mats that, honestly, we suspected a bit but which no brush or comb has ever proven the existence of before. We had never actually found one. Like a black hole. So in that sense - also in the spectacularness of how well it works on dog no. 1, and in the Muppet-holocaust scene of lost fur we've been leaving behind us at the dog parks, which of course is fur that won't end up on our floor - the Furminator is a success. And worth the price tag, though i'd be shocked if they're not making a zillion percent profit on each damn one. It's just a fucking comb.

But since the MIL is visiting i can't tell if our floors are comparatively cleaner or not, because with all of us sweeping i haven't got a feel for how often we're cleaning and how fast the dog hair is reaccumulating. It seems like there's less of it but it might just be her. Either way it's a pleasant thing.

Labels: dogs, emptor, house

scrawled @ 10:58