- Every dog owner knows the challenge
of trying to keep your clothing clean.
If you have a dog, at some point you've been like
"well, I need to go out" and you're covered in dog hair.
So when I saw this Hurricane Fur Wizard,
on Facebook or on TV, I was pretty impressed.
It looked like it was maybe the solution to this,
and today I've worn my nicest black shirt,
my long sleeved black shirt,
and we're gonna put it up to the true test.
It'll be the Hurricane Fur Wizard
versus our seven (ding)
four-legged family members.
I'm Ken Steepe and welcome back to McCann Dogs.
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Now today I love my job because I'm gonna bring
all seven of our dogs out here,
and we're just gonna have a massive play session.
I'm gonna get these dogs flying all over the place,
and we're gonna see how well that lint brush
gets the fur off, and the key feature of the lint roller,
the lint brush, is that it's reusable.
That it's got like a cleaning base.
So we're gonna find out exactly how well that works.
So when you get the Hurricane Fur Wizard
their claim is that you don't...
There's no tape. There's no mess. There's no refills.
Basically what they do is they give you this base,
and you can see it's sort of like a soft fabric wand here,
and you insert it into the base and it cleans the fur off,
or whatever I guess the lint is that's on your clothing.
It talks about how it's good for automobiles
and on pillows and things like that,
and actually I've got a pillow that I'll use as well.
It's a little coarser fabric so
we'll see it removes the hair from that.
But you also get this adorable, little one
for your automobile. This tiny little fur thing.
So we can see how this works as well.
But I think this will really be put to the test,
so let's get the seven dogs out,
and we'll see how hairy I can get.
So I'm gonna release these guys in a minute,
and when I do we'll get the fur flying,
and we'll see how much dog hair
I can actually get on my shirt.
You guys ready? Okay. (claps)
Okay, come here guys, oh my goodness, Rad, oh hello Slammer.
Oh Mac of course is one first ones in here.
Hi buddy, how are you? Bee-Line come here.
Hey buddy, oh hello.
Mac would be the perfect tester to get me hairy,
because the moment I give him any freedom he immediately
does this, and this is, you can see his personality.
Now Funkee doesn't shed as much,
I don't think, as our rough coated Border Collies do,
but she is certainly one of the more playful dogs we've got.
Oh good girl, what a good up.
(music) (laughs) Buddy steamroll.
(claps) Hippy's a wild one, but the thing about Hippy
is that she's all hair.
She's actually not fur, so she doesn't shed quite as much,
but we'll see how much Hippy hair
I can get on my shirt here.
So this is probably as hairy as I could possibly be,
and I really need this shirt 'cause it's the holidays
and I'd really like to wear this out.
But we're gonna see if the Fur Wizard
can remove most of this.
More importantly, will that self-cleaning base
really do the trick? Let's find out.
(fabric swish)
It's like it's actually doing a pretty good job.
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(mumbling) most of the fur off.
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Something that I've learned so far
is that your actually have to empty it
and refresh it in the base pretty frequently,
which is kind of annoying.
You can tell when it starts to get full of fur
it just gets slick and stops picking up anything
so you've gotta reinsert it in the base.
I mean it's not the worst thing
but it's something that you need to keep in mind.
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- [Ken Steepe] This is one of Grand Slam's pillows
that we let him lay on occasionally.
The brush says that it works on pillows and it's actually,
I would say, it may be doing a better job on the pillow
which is a little bit coarser material
than on the shirt that I was wearing.
I've also gotta it clean it maybe more frequently,
which would be helpful.
The cleaner actually does a really great job.
The base does a really great job
of cleaning off the lint brush.
- So the Fur Wizard package actually
comes with a tiny, little auto Fur Wizard I guess.
It's pretty handy in that it's so little
you could definitely leave it in your car,
and it actually does a pretty darn good job
of taking a lot of that lint off.
And you can see this one instead of replacing it in the base
I mean it's already in the base.
You just clean it like that.
You know what? I might be a little more excited about
this guy than I am about the full, the big version.
So after cleaning it out a few times,
when all said and done, apparently the good people
at Hurricane Fur Wizard say that you can
simply remove the base, and then take out
all the fur, and fluff, and lint.
You see we've actually gathered quite a bit of lint and fur.
And just toss it in the garbage.
That's actually pretty cool about this,
is that it traps all of that stuff pretty well,
and then you can just shake it into the garbage can.
So the package you get on the Hurricane Fur Wizard
talks about you being able to do
the same job in half the time.
I guess they're comparing it to, you know,
lint rollers and other lint brushes.
I would argue with that because
it didn't really take off the fur that quickly.
I mean I know it's a double sided brush,
but you had to be careful to go
in only one direction, and clean it frequently.
Probably my favorite part of this entire package
is the tiny, little Hurricane Fur Wizard.
I mean it's all one piece. You can't lose it.
It works exactly the same as the larger version does,
where you can take the base off and dump it
into the garbage, but I mean you could put this anywhere.
I know it talks about it being their automotive brush,
but this could go in a purse.
It could go, you know, in your training bag
if you're a dog agility handler.
It works great on your car of course,
but its size is really great because it's so portable.
So our verdict on the Hurricane Fur Wizard is it's ho-hum.
I mean I think I bought this for about 29 dollars Canadian,
and I'm not sure what it would be worth on Amazon,
but for 29 dollars you can buy a lot of lint rollers,
and you can buy a lot of lint brushes,
however the unique thing about this Hurricane Fur Wizard
is this base that you can plug the brush into,
and, you know, after you're done you can take the base off
and just dump it into the garbage.
And I mean from an environmental standpoint
that's a pretty great factor.
I'm gonna have spend some time finishing
cleaning out all of the dog hair off of my shirt,
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On that note, I'm Ken. Happy Training.
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