A deshedding brush moves hair from your dog to your floor. A grooming vacuum moves it from your dog into a canister. That is the entire proposition, and whether it is worth the price comes down to one question you cannot answer in advance: will your dog stand next to a running motor?
Key Benefits
- Collects hair at the source rather than releasing it into the room
- Seven attachments cover brushing, deshedding and trimming
- One unit instead of a brush, a clipper and a hoover
- Useful during a heavy seasonal moult
Best For
- Double-coated breeds during a moult
- Households where loose hair is the main complaint
- Dogs already comfortable with vacuum noise
- Owners deshedding indoors in winter
How It Works
A motor draws air through whichever head is fitted. The deshedding head combs out undercoat while the suction pulls the released hair straight into the canister. The trimming head clips with the same collection running, which is what stops clipped hair going everywhere.
Pros and Cons
Pros: It genuinely does stop hair reaching the floor, which no brush can. Having deshedding and clipping on one unit means fewer things to store. During a heavy moult it turns a job you do outside into one you can do indoors.
Cons: Suction on these units is modest next to a household vacuum, so on a thick undercoat it collects most of the hair rather than all of it. The real problem is noise: it is a motor running next to your dog’s head, and plenty of dogs will not accept that at any price. There is no way to know which yours is before it arrives, and a dog who refuses it leaves you with an expensive brush. Order volume on this listing is 74, lower than most items on this site.
Things to Consider
- Introduce the sound from across the room, running, before it ever touches them
- A dog frightened of the household vacuum is unlikely to accept this
- Canister capacity is small – expect to empty it mid-session on a big dog
- Not a substitute for a groomer on a matted or heavily impacted coat
- Check whether replacement filters are sold separately
- Prices, availability and shipping times are set by the AliExpress seller and can change
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