Brushes

The problem is that you're looking at brushes and need a deshedding tool. They're not the same thing.

Good deshedding tools: Furminator and Zoom groom. The latter works well on fussier cats.

The furminator is, IMHO fantastic, and the way to go... It is on deal on Amazon from $35 to $8.00!!! This is an amazing price and I am sure it won't last though! It reduces the shedding by over 90% !!
Use it only once a week though - don't go crazy!

I use a furminator knock off call the fur buster, I got at walmart. Furminators were a lot more than $8 at the time.

It works great, though my cats needed time to get used to it. I use it a couple of times a week, and the regular comb on other days.

However my home is still furry. it doens't bother me though.

I paid over $30 for mine... $8.00 is insane!
Furminator is also insane... and dangerous in the hands of a man ... The other day I went to my doctor, and he was telling me how annoyed he was at all the fur at his house. When I asked him if he had the furminator, he said "oh, yes, but my wife keeps it away from me... I have so much fun using that thing I can't stop until my cat has bald patches!" Classic men

Do your cats tumble around and play together? While using the furminator keeps mine from shedding on things as much, it does nothing for the fur that comes out in clumps when they play rough.

Excellent point LOL

Yep... there's nothing like watching a large fur tumble weed cross the floor minutes after you've sweeped and dusted (wood floor) thoroughly because a couple of your cats decided to tackle and wrestle each other.

Don't forget simple things like vacuuming and dusting to help control the hair, too. We use lint brushes on all our clothes and even on the bed at times.

Lint or sticky brushes on the clothes only.

I would use a comb, Furminator on the cat at least 2-3 times a week. Higher quality foods will help reduce shedding. Keep in mind that indoor cats shed year round and usually more in the spring and fall.

Yes they Tumble with one another quite a lot but my apartment is all carpet so the fur doesn't tumble, it embeds

When we first moved in only the kitchen and one bathroom wasn't carpeted. The living room had a short, tight weave, dark teal carpet. I could vacuum and it would be covered in hair seconds later just from a cat walking through.
So I'll take fur tumble weeds over that any day.

Certain fabrics and colors, not matter what you do to combat shedding, are just terrible for showing fur. You'll go out of your mind, if say, you're trying to keep a dark blue or black couch fur free with white or light colored cats in the house.

I have pretty much every common color in this house. But as a general rule: white fur sheds more than black/dark fur. It's not that it actually does, but that it shows up more.
My black cat sheds, but I rarely see it.

I hope the deshedding tool works.

Glad you got the furminator (I am assuming that's what you got?)!! It is AMAZING! Just one thing: Start slowly, specially on the first time you use - it is easy to get overly excited and not know when to stop... A couple of stokes per location, and keep moving along until you do the whole kitty - by the end you will have a second kitty on the floor Oh, Comb the kitty first to remove any matts they might have!

When using the furminator, instead of just brushing and piling the loose fur off to the side I use my left hand (I'm right handed) to pet after each stroke of the furminator and add the fur from the furminator to the disc of fur that builds up in my hand.
This prevents a lot of loose fur from flying around as you work (because if it floats around it will inevitably end up going up your nose) and you get this small felted disc of fur that is easy to through away.

No matter what I do, all my carpets are now "tabby and white".

I love the furminator! Too bad it only works on Buddy and Sami. I've yet to find a brush/comb that works on Parker and I've tried a lot!...Parker sheds in tumble weeds. Its not so much all over the place as it is random puffs floating across the floor lol. But we over used the furminator the first time...Sami had only a fine layer of fur on her back for a while. (oops!)
Definitely cuts down on the shedding a bit.

Well, someone here will say this doesn't work, but I use a wire kitten brush. Someone called it a "pin" brush on another thread. They sell them at Petsmart for under $10. The kind I like seems to be a store or generic brand and they come in pink, blue, and purple. They take out an amazing amount of hair, and my cats all love to be brushed with them. My cats actually argue over being brushed with this brush. I usually have to brush two, and sometimes three at the same time ("10 strokes for you, now 10 strokes for you. . ."). My Lily, one of my very small, black DSH's, kisses me the whole time I brush her. I very seldom have hair ball vomiting at my house. I also use them on a lot of cats each week at the shelter where I volunteer. They are a big hit there, too. I know about the Furminator, but I haven't felt the need at this point. Especially with the price. But $8.00? Maybe I'd try it.

I have 5 cats, two are long-haired. I have a minimal cat hair problem. I vacuum regularly, and dust. But, really only about once a week, unless company is coming. I have a good vacuum cleaner. I keep covers of some kind on the people furniture, that can be and are washed regularly. I don't have cat furniture other than scratching posts and a couple of window shelves. The window shelves have towels on them that I wash frequently, along with the towels on my desk where I'm typing now and where they all like to hang out. Oh, I have A LOT of cat beds. I wash them regularly, too.

I, also get tuffs of long-hair tumbling across the hard wood. But it's really not bad. It's the softed, silkiest, little tuffs of hair imaginable. I kind of like it.

Years ago I decided to only have black cats as I wear black a lot and I was tired of the white and orange hairs on my clothes. The black cat thing works and for many years I only had black cats. I still have three, but now I have two DLH gray cats, too. I wear a lot of gray, also.

I also think that a high quality diet and low stress helps reduce shedding.

Robin

I got some more of those brushes I like at Petsmart. I wanted a second one for the house as there are several places I can easily brush my cats. And I wanted a couple for the shelter. They are only $2.99. That's the regular price, no sale.


Robin

I've literally tried everything on Hurley (I'm a groomer) and I still have a hard time keeping up with his fur. He sheds more than any cat I've ever had! It's crazy and he's a DSH! I have to give him laxatone for his hairballs. I could brush him every minute of every day and it just never stops. The furminator works okay on him but even that can't keep up with the shedding. I don't really care about the hair being on my stuff, I'm just concerned about all the hair he's ingesting. I wish there was a magic no shed pill. LOL

That's interesting about Hurley. There's a black DSH at the shelter, Elyse, who I brush. It's just amazing because more hair comes off her each time than 4 other cats put together. Her hair is really thick. She's only a few months old, too.

Her coat is also dull and she has dandruff. One of the things about the shelter is that the coats of a lot of the cats are not good - dull, coarse, dandruff, scruffy. However, of the ones I've adopted from there with this problem (they all don't), after a few weeks at home, their coats become shiny and soft.


Robin

That's just a food issue. The shelter has to feed what they can get - usually some common food like science diet, purina, or iams. While simply supplementing with a fish oil supplement would help a lot of them out, shelters usually can't afford that either.