Pet Dehairing Tools Review

The Hair Collection Tool from Furminator promises to remove pet hair from clothing and furniture. It’s ready to go straight out of the package and very user-friendly, just roll it over fur-covered surfaces. When you turn the knob as you’re cleaning, it traps fur in a chamber that’s easy to open up to discard the hair.

Bissell’s Pet Hair Eraser is basically a handheld mini vacuum with two nozzles — a soft, contoured rubber nozzle that lifts hair and dirt; and a hard nozzle intended to clean dry messes like kibble and cat litter. The wide mouth allows it to lift this debris very efficiently. It includes a 16-foot cord that you plug into an outlet to power it, and it is shaped to fit into hard-to-reach areas.

The Lilly Brush Mini Pet Hair Detailer is another remover designed to work on multiple surfaces including car interiors, carpets, and upholstery. Here’s another brush that’s pretty much self-explanatory and ready-to-use right away with no set-up. Just lightly press the rubber edge to the cleaning surface and start scraping in short strokes. It does not have any sort of fur trapping or storage component, so once you’ve swept all the fur into one pile you just pick it up and discard it with your hand.

From JW Pet, the GripSoft Pet Hair Magnet sort of functions as a squeegee but to remove fur. It’s a 7-inch wide rubber blade that’s triple-grooved to pick up hair with a sturdy handle for easy operation. Again, using this isn’t rocket science — take it out of the package and start dragging it along a fur-covered surface and wipe away the fur with your hand to discard. But there are illustrated instructions on the back to help you along if needed.

Unlike the other tools, the FurZapper doesn’t require any rolling, swiping, or vacuuming — you just throw it in the laundry. It’s potentially a quicker solution that’s nice for the busier pet owners. It comes in packs of one or two, and when it’s in the washing machine, the sticky material is supposed to pull the hair off of clothing or other materials so the hair will either cling to the zapper or get rinsed down the drain. Then add it to the dryer, where the zapper is supposed to collect even more fur that will either stick to its surface or be deposited in the lint trap.

The Chom Chom Roller is built to be used on pretty much any fabric that collects pet hair. Just note that you shouldn’t use it on smooth surfaces (like hardwood flooring), very thin pilled carpet, wet surfaces or litter, or directly on people or pets. It works by creating an electrostatic charge that lifts and attracts hair. Unlike a lint roller, you don’t push it forward in long strokes; instead you roll back and forth in short strokes. The backwards motion will push the hair into a collection compartment that you flip open to empty.