Pet Vac kind of reminds me of the Flowbee or Robocut pet attachment. The concept is very similar. Vacuum your furry friend before all that pet hair has a chance to scatter all over your house, furniture and clothes. The only problem with using a vacuum directly on your pet is that they completely freak out from the noise! That’s why this Pet Vac has an extra long hose so you can keep your vaccum over in the next room. Ahhhh genius idea but does it actually work?
Pet Vac - Does it really work?
Pet Vac Claims
- “Let Pet Vac get rid of that hair! Pet Vac eliminates hair problems and makes grooming fun!” “Pets actually enjoy Pet Vac,” the commercial adds.
- “Use Pet Vac at bath time, it works dry and wet.”
- “When the collection is full you simply empty it.” (As they dump a half full bucket of pet hair in the trash)
- The commercial shows that you first hook up one end of the extra long plastic hose to your vacuum cleaner and the other end to the Pet Vac. Then the grooming brush is attached to a long suction hose. The hair is supposed to collect in the Pet Vac bucket.
Pet Vac Test Results
Three news stations set out to find if Pet Vac really works. They tested the Pet Vac on both dogs and cats alike. Their results?
http://honestinfomercialreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/video/petvac.flvTest 1 - Regular grooming
- The pets who were used to being professionally groomed seemed to tolerate the Pet Vac. Some even enjoyed it! For some of the pets that weren’t used to being professionally groomed, the sound of the vacuum still bothered them.
- In all tests, the groomers noticed that the suction was very poor and they were all using standard vacuum cleaners.
- As far as the Pet Vac grooming attachment, the groomers mentioned that they typically use better brushes that have longer bristles and that are more rigid. This helps to reach deeper into the coat.
- After grooming the pets, they checked the Pet Vac bucket and only found a few hairs sticking to the filters and side of the bucket. In comparison, when they used a regular grooming brush, they collected much more hair than the vacuum.
Test 2 - Use on wet fur at bath time
- The groomer tried to suck up water in a bucket. It’s just moved the water around. In the bucket there wasn’t even one drop of water!
Pet Vac seems to take a lot of work to collect such a small amount of hair. The groomers mentioned that they were quite disappointed and they don’t see where it did anything. A slicker hair brush would get that much hair out and in much quicker time. I wish I had some good news but it looks like this product is a dud. Here’s another clever idea for pet owners, the Pet Zoom… who knows why they named it that!
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Marie // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:32 pm
That sounds great! I’ll have to give it try! But for any of those hairs that still might end up on the furniture, I really recommend Fur-Zoff. Its Made of recylced material and lasts forever for $9.99. You can find it at http://www.furzoff.net. Thanks again!
2 jle // Jul 21, 2009 at 1:22 pm
>”…the groomers mentioned that they typically use better brushes…”
Who actually tested the product? If they were professional pet groomers, I’d have to question their objectivity as they’d have a vested interest.
3 Theresa // Jul 23, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I know what you mean but the groomers didn’t mention or show the type of dog brush they normally use. =) I know it would have been better if I did the review personally, but I did find several video reviews from reliable sources and they all came to the same conclusion.
4 Corinne // Feb 28, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I am wondering how effective this product is for cats who should be brushed (admittedly more often than I do), particularly now that the seasons are changing (or at least I hope they are!) and they will begin to shed their winter fur. Does this have to hook up to a vacuum cleaner, or is it a self-contained unit (I have a central vac). I’d appreciate anyone’s feedback, especially regarding grooming cats with this product.
5 Theresa // Mar 1, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Corinne, yes you have to hook it up to the vacuum for it to work. You hook up one end of the long plastic hose to the Pet Vac and the other end to your vacuum cleaner. Animals seem to tolerate the noise even though it’s still a bit noisy. The only problem is that it hardly sucks up any hair. A hairbrush gets much more hair out than the Pet Vac. It’s too bad it ’s a nice concept but it’s not effective.
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