Groomer’s Stone Pet Grooming Tool Review

As the owner of two dogs, I feel like I’m constantly vacuuming pet hair off the floor and furniture, grooming the dogs and changing my clothes in an effort to remove loose dog hair. Shedding season is my worst nightmare. I usually just give up on frantic attempts at cleaning and tidying and accept the fact that a thin layer of fluff is living in my home.

There are hundreds of pet products on the market that promise to treat shedding or remove stray fur from your home when it sheds, but my favorite is the Groomer’s Stone Pet Grooming Tool. It’s not a trendy or high-tech dog tool by any means — in fact, it actually comes from old-fashioned dog and horse exhibitors — but it’s definitely a product that deserves more hype.

People in the dog show and horse world have been using pumice stones and similar products as grooming tools for years. A small piece of pumice or a grooming stone can act like a stripping knife to remove excess hair, and it works with short-coated breeds (and horses, for that matter) to keep their manes shiny. coat and remove any built-up gunk.

I recently started showing my Rough Collie puppy in the American Kennel Club show ring, and I learned about grooming stones from my mentor (a longtime AKC Rough Collie exhibitor) during a grooming lesson. arrangement. He used a small piece of a similar stone to remove excess hair from the top of my collie’s head.

After going through several iterations of random grooming stones on Amazon, I finally found the Groomer’s Stone, and after using it once, I knew I was in love. Not only does it help get the undercoat off my double-coated dog but it has the right consistency to easily remove dog hair from couches, rugs, clothes and more.

As you can tell from its name, the main purpose of the Groomer’s Stone is for grooming. In double-coated breeds with soft, fluffy undercoats, it clings to the loose undercoat to aid the shedding process. It works great on my Rough Collie and will also work well for Golden Retrievers, Shelties, Aussies, Great Pyrenees, Samoyeds and other similar coated breeds. In single-coated breeds, this removes dead hair to keep the coat shiny. I find that it sometimes takes a guard hair or two off my collie, but it’s a better alternative to de-shedding tools like the Furminator that can damage a healthy coat.

Aside from hair removal, the Groomer’s Stone is also great at removing debris from your dog’s coat. The dog runs in the mud? No problem. Instead of plunging my dogs into the bath when they mess up, I find that the Groomer’s Stone works well to remove stuck-on mud and dirt once it’s a little dry. I used it to help get stickers and burrs out of my collie’s long coat.

While the Groomer’s Stone is great for coat maintenance, the thing that really made me fall in love with it was its effectiveness as a pet hair remover. Sure, a vacuum can remove pet hair from your upholstery, but even my Dyson Gen5 Outsize leaves my rescue dog’s fine black hair clinging to my couch for dear life. I’ve also tried the ChomChom pet hair remover, and while it cleans my couches well, it probably doesn’t feel static after use, and it didn’t help pilling my couch covers within hours. year of having dogs.

The Groomer’s Stone fixed both of these problems: It removed all the dog hair from my couches in a few scrapes (even the hair that looked woven into the fabric), and even removed the pilling. I was going to buy new, multi-hundred-dollar couch covers because they were in rough shape, but now, after using this $13 stone, my couch is back to looking like new.

The Groomer’s Stone works on car seats, textured carpets and rugs and even some clothing to remove stubborn pet hair. Because of how rough it is, I probably wouldn’t use it on any delicate fabrics, but just about anything is fair game. I regularly use it to remove black leggings while wearing them. One thing to keep in mind is that it doesn’t always grab all the hair it pulls out like a brush or ChomChom, so you may still need to vacuum or hold loose hair with your hand after using it ( but at the low price, it’s a fair trade-off).

For $13, you won’t find better all-purpose grooming and cleaning equipment than the Groomer’s Stone. Whether you’re struggling with a heavy-duty seasonal shed on a long-coated breed or just need something cheaper than a $500 vacuum to get dog hair off your couch, this little brick is worth it try. While it doesn’t do the best job of handling the dog hair it picks up, it does a great job of removing loose undercoat, removing sticky mud and other grime from the dog’s coat, plus in this fun. job keeping couches and clothes free of dog hair.