Coastal Pet Safari Dog Self-Cleaning Slicker Brush - Dog Deshedding Brush - Prevents Mats and Tangled Hair - For Dogs with Short or Long Hair - Large - 8" x 4.5"

This is such a cool brush! It pulls out loose undercoat nicely and the release button works perfectly. I've had the brush for a long time and it still works great – the plastic has not broken nor have the pins rusted. I can't imagine using a slicker brush without a self-cleaning feature ever again. So easy to use, just push the button and the fur falls out in one giant sheet. I got the large and it's a dark forest green color. Unless you have a teeny tiny dog, I would suggest getting the large, as it has more surface area and will make the brushing go faster. This brush works best on animals with long or puffy fur. I would not use it on short or sleek fur. Even if the animal sheds a lot, this is not the brush for them. That being said, it only really worked on one of my dogs – the one with frizzy, puffy fur. My other dog has thick but sleek fur that is closer to the body, and it doesn't work on her. It just won't pull the fur out and it actually would probably cut her skin if I continued to use it on her. The reason it works best on long, puffy, textured fur is because the little needle bristles need some texture to stick to in order to pull the fur out. Another reason you want to use it on that type of coat is so you are brushing the FUR and not the SKIN. If you try and brush thin or sleek fur, you risk hurting your pet. Also, always be careful brushing bellies where the fur is thinner! Brush gently, these pins are sharp and can make your pet bleed. If used correctly, it's a great brush. Overall, this is a very useful grooming tool and I would definitely recommend it, provided that your pet has the appropriate fur type for this brush.

Let me say that the SAFARI SELF-CLEANING MEDIUM SLICKER BRUSH FOR DOGS is probably the best tool to use for removing loose and dead hair from your dog that doesn't involve a blade (like FURminator Short Hair deShedding Tool for Small Dogs and cutting or thinning the coat.Although you'll still get a few stray hairs flying away as you brush, most of the pesky hair gets trapped at the bottom of the teeth, the slicker brush collects and removes fur really well. And it's easily cleaned by pressing the back button. The bottom lifts up and pushes the hair up and off of the teeth and into the trash making clean-up less than 2-seconds.The SAFARI SLICKER feels nice and comfortable in the hand and makes quick work of grooming your furry kid's hair.One piece of advice for puppy parents who have a youngster under 6-months of age: start with one of the PetZoom Self Cleaning Grooming Brush, 2-Pack. Those brushes have balls on the tips, so it doesn't scratch the pup's sensitive skin while brushing, and even though it doesn't remove as much hair as SAFARI SLICKER it's self-cleaning and your pup won't be scared of it. I didn't know this and bought the SAFARI SLICKER first and my Shiba puppy, who was about 10-weeks old when I gave her the first brushing, HATED the Safari Slicker Brush. After the first time, she would run when she saw me take it out and wouldn't stop fidgeting while I brushed her. She didn't even want treats!I came to Amazon and looked for something else, which led me to the PetZoom Brush, and that one she handled with no problem from the very first use. I guess the balls on the teeth didn't hurt or scratch like the teeth on this one -- even though I was hardly using any pressure with the Safari Brush -- which is why she didn't mind getting brushed.As she got older, she's now 8-months as of this writing, I decided to go back to the SAFARI BRUSH to remove more hair right before a bath, and to my surprise she didn't fidget or try and run from it. She did look at it with distrust at first, but when I used it she didn't mind at all. This was sometime around the 6-month mark, so I think her skin toughened up or matured. Now I use it for every brushing and she doesn't mind at all.

One of our pups is a Great Pyrenees and Anatolian shepherd mix, they have the two coats of fur and are a livestock guarding dog so you typically find them outside as working dogs, ours is an indoor family pet, aka we have FUR EVERYWHERE!I have ready many things about how to best groom these dogs and dogs that have the double fur coat really need to have a grooming set like this one vs the furminator because it does a ton of damage to their fur. I bought this slicker brush along with a set that had a rake tool and a double sided brush and I use all of them on my pup.-This slicker brush works awesome, I like the push down button to easily remove the fur from the brush.The brush is light and easy to use and fits well in your hands, overall nice brush and nice price/

I ordered the small and thought it would be smaller but it's fine for my three cats. I do have a larger one for the dogs and wish there was more of a difference in the sizing (this one being smaller than it is). Works well on the cats they are short haired and a year old. Also works well on both of my dogs , being smaller in size this one is good for around ears and face...I have the bigger one for their bodies but sometimes use this one for everything and it's fine. Bristles are same as the larger one. Same length . It's hard to find a brush without the ball things on the end of each bristle - I feel like they don't work that way. This one works and the hair stays in the brush nicely until you push the button to have it come out.