Clips the coat and swallows the fur before it lands.
Home clipping rarely fails at the cut. It fails at the hour of hoovering pet hair afterwards, which is what sends most people back to booking a groomer they did not want to pay for.
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Why you'll love it
Home clipping fails on the clean up, not the cut. A double coat off a dog in a living room means fur in the sofa, the skirting and the air for days afterwards, and that is what sends people back to paying a groomer. Catching the coat at the blade removes the part of the job nobody wants to do.
A dog that has met a loud clipper once will remember it. Holding the motor under 65 decibels puts it below a running vacuum, which is the threshold most dogs will sit through with a distraction rather than fight.
A 2.5 litre cup is roughly two and a half times what most handheld pet vacuums hold. On a shedding golden or a husky in season that is the difference between one uninterrupted session and stopping four times to empty it.
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Ask someone who tried clipping their own dog once why they stopped, and the answer is almost never the haircut. It is that a double coat off a spaniel in a living room puts hair in the sofa, along the skirting boards and into the air for the rest of the week. The cut takes forty minutes. Chasing the aftermath takes longer and has to be done immediately.
Joining suction to the blade changes the arithmetic. Coat leaves the animal and goes straight into a canister, so the floor stays broadly as it was and the session ends when the dog does. That is the whole argument for this category, and it is why these kits took hold with owners who had already given up on clippers once.
Three numbers describe what one of these can do. Suction here is 10 kilopascals across three modes, which is enough to draw loose undercoat off the blade without pulling at skin. The cup holds 2.5 litres, roughly two and a half times a typical handheld pet vacuum, so a shedding retriever finishes in one pass rather than four with emptying in between.
The third number matters most and gets quoted least. This runs below 65 decibels, which sits under a domestic vacuum cleaner and close to ordinary conversation. Dogs object to clippers on sound far more than on sensation, and the gap between a 75 decibel motor and a 65 decibel one is the gap between a dog that bolts and a dog that lies down with a chew.
Six combs step from 3mm to 24mm. The short end is summer length on a smooth coat or a sanitary trim; the long end tidies a fluffy coat without taking it down to the skin, which is what you want on any double coated breed. Clipping a husky or a german shepherd short does not keep them cool, because that coat insulates against heat as well as cold, and it often grows back wrong.
| Comb | Leaves | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 3mm | Very short | Sanitary areas, paw pads |
| 6mm | Short | Summer trim on smooth coats |
| 9mm | Short medium | Body work on poodle crosses |
| 12mm | Medium | General maintenance length |
| 16mm | Longer | Tidying without shortening much |
| 24mm | Long | Double coats, blending only |
Only one of the five heads is a clipper. The rest are cleaning tools that fit the same hose, which means the unit earns its storage space between grooms by taking fur off car seats, sofa cushions and the bed nobody can get clean. On a household with one shedding animal, that second job may get more use than the first.
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Empty the cup after every session rather than leaving compacted hair to sit, and pull the blade off to brush it out. Packed hair and skin oil are what kill clipper blades; sharpness is rarely the thing that goes first. The canister and the heads rinse under a tap, but let everything dry fully before it goes back on the motor.
| This kit | Plain clippers | Groomer visit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hair on the floor | Almost none | All of it | None |
| Cost per groom | Nothing after purchase | Nothing after purchase | £40 to £80 |
| Time per session | 40 to 60 minutes | 40 minutes plus clean up | Half a day including travel |
| Suits matted coats | No | No | Yes |
A groomer is still the right answer for a felted coat or a dog that cannot be handled. This is for maintenance between visits.
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The reason I had stopped clipping at home was the week of hair afterwards. With the suction running while you clip, almost nothing reaches the floor. I emptied the 2.5 litre cup once and that was the entire dog.
The heads swap over quickly and the brush attachment is the one I reach for most. The hose means the base unit has to come with you across the room, and at just over four kilos that is a bit of a lug. Everything else about it is spot on.
Under 65 decibels is the difference between a dog leaving the room and a dog lying on his side. Ours falls asleep during the brush head, which I would not have believed back in January.
Three millimetres for the sanitary area, twelve for the body, twenty four for the feathering on his legs. Having the full set rather than two lengths means I can copy roughly what was being done for us before.
It does everything it claims and the cup is genuinely large. It is also 33 by 20 centimetres of kit plus a hose and six combs, and in a small flat there is nowhere obvious for it to live. I use it in the garden in summer and resent it in winter.
My old handheld pet vacuum needed emptying three times during a moult. This took the lot in one go and was still not full at the end. There are three suction modes and I mostly stay on the middle one.
It cuts cleanly through a normal coat and I have done four trims with it now. On the very dense patch at his rump it slows down and I have to take a second pass. For keeping him tidy at home it is more than enough.
I bought the kit for the clipper and found myself using the crevice and roller heads on the sofa and the stairs instead. It is a perfectly decent small vacuum in its own right, which I had not expected.
We were going every eight weeks and now it is twice a year for a proper tidy up. The suction running while you clip is the part that makes the job possible in a living room at all.
Good questions
No, and no clipper will. A mat has to come out before you clip, either teased apart with a comb or cut out. Running a clipper into a solid mat drags the skin underneath it, which is how dogs get nicked. Deal with the mats first, then clip.
Under 65 decibels, which sits below a domestic vacuum cleaner and roughly at the level of ordinary conversation. That is quiet for the category but it is not silent, and a dog meeting it for the first time should get a few short sessions rather than a full groom.
Yes, and the shorter guide combs suit a cat better than a dog. Cats are more sound sensitive than most dogs though, so build up to it. If your cat will not tolerate the motor at all, the self groomer and the deshedding glove do the same job with no noise.
Yes. Four of the five heads are cleaning heads rather than grooming ones, so the same unit takes fur off a sofa or a car seat without the clipper attached.
For most dogs, not within a single groom. The 2.5 litre cup is sized to take a full session on a double coated dog; short coated breeds will not come close to filling it.
The smaller kit is a handheld clipper with four heads and no suction, and it is the better buy for tidying faces and paws. This one exists for the shedding problem: more motor, a canister, and the cleaning heads. Households with a heavy shedder often end up using both.
No. The airflow acts on hair at the blade rather than against the body, and the comb sits between the skin and the opening. Dogs generally react to the sound long before they react to the draw.
Last reviewed 31 August 2026