Controlling Pet Shedding is an Ongoing Battle!

By: Heide Domenick

I know that some pet lovers say no outfit is complete without a little pet hair but I would desperately love to make it out of the house just once in a while wearing an "incomplete" outfit.  I love my rabbit and my cat as much as anyone could but is it really too much to ask that they keep their fur to themselves and not leave it all over my furniture and my clothing?  I don't make them wear my clothes, do I?  Don't even get me started on hairballs.  Having failed to convince them of the fairness of my position, I set about to find other solutions.

The first thing was to find a grooming tool that was fast, gentle and effective.  This involved some trial and error but I have finally found one my pets actually like.  It's gentle so that they don't immediately start struggling and trying to get away.  It's fast enough that I can groom each of them in a few minutes.  I'm finished long before they get bored and begin to fidget.  The best thing of all is that it's so effective I only need to use it once or twice a week even at peak shedding times.  I get multiple handfuls of fur off each pet every time I groom them.  That's handfuls of dead hairs that otherwise would have been on my sofa and, sooner or later, stuck to the seat of my best black skirt!

The other secret is consistency.  Once I had found a grooming tool that my pets and I both liked, I realized it wouldn't do us any good sitting in a drawer.  I make it a point to take it out regularly and create a ritual of grooming that my pets now recognize and have become accustomed to.   My cat even comes running and sits patiently when it's time to be groomed!

I doubt that I can ever win this battle entirely, but my strategy seems to be paying off so far!

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Learn more about the grooming tool my pets and I like best here:  http://www.hdmarketingsite.com/shed-ender

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