Well after seeing this post over at dooce I decided to look a little further into the Furminator phenomenon.  I found some other people who were equally pleased with the expensive little thing.  So, since I read it on the internet, it must be true…and it was purchased for the $60 (gulp).  After spending that much money on one brush the results of this thing had better have been damned impressive…and they were.

Scott bought the medium sized brush so that we would be able to brush the dogs and cats without having to buy the small cat brush at a similar hefty cost.  We waited for the boy to go for his nap and then we let the fur fly!  My, my, my how it flew.  We first did the two worst offenders, Flash and Zoe before giving Merlin a quick brushing thinking that he wouldn’t have too much fur to brush out…we were mistaken.  After taking off the equivalent of a couple of small dogs in fur I had to force myself to wait for the boy to wake up from his nap before tackling the seven cats.  I brushed at least a gallon bucket full of cat hair from them as well.  Lola seemed to enjoy it the most, which I thought was odd since she normally HATES being brushed but there she was rolling around on the floor in ecstasy while a furminated her. 

The real test of course was the vacuum test.  We wanted to see how much or little hair would accumulate after using the thing and so we started with freshly vacuumed carpets.  The results have been fabulous!!  The once populous fur tumbleweeds have been eradicated.

We have won.

Fur…terminated.