Brushing a heavy shedder indoors moves the hair from the dog to the room. This is the alternative: the grooming heads are hollow and the vacuum runs while you work, so the undercoat goes into a canister rather than onto the sofa, the curtains and your clothes. In shedding season it is the difference between grooming in the garden and grooming in the house.
Key Benefits
- Five heads — deshedding rake, slicker, clipper, nozzle and crevice tool — on one motor
- Hair is collected as it comes off, not afterwards
- 2.5-litre canister, so a full double-coat session does not need emptying halfway
- Three suction settings, because the strength a husky ignores will frighten a whippet
- Doubles as an ordinary vacuum for the car and the dog bed
Best For
- Double-coated breeds in spring and autumn — huskies, german shepherds, collies
- Anyone grooming indoors in a flat
- Owners who currently groom outside because of the mess
- Dogs that tolerate noise reasonably well
How It Works
Start with the machine running but the head off the dog, and pay for calm. Work in the direction of the coat with the deshedding head, in short passes; the suction does not pull hair out, it catches what the rake releases. Empty the canister when it is two-thirds full or suction falls off.
Pros and Cons
Pros: Genuinely stops shedding season covering the house, five tools in one, and the canister makes the result visible enough that people keep doing it.
Cons: Noise is the whole question. This is a vacuum held against your dog, and a dog that is frightened of the hoover will not accept it at any suction setting — that is most of the one-star reviews on every product in this category, not a fault in the machine. It is also heavier in the hand than a brush, the clipper head is adequate rather than professional, and 2.5 litres is generous but a full husky moult will still fill it.
Things to Consider
- Introduce it over a week with the machine running in another room first
- If your dog already hates the vacuum, buy a rake and groom outside instead
- Check spare filters are available — a blocked filter kills the suction that is the point
- Prices, availability and shipping times are set by the AliExpress seller and can change
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