Choosing the best animal clipper, pros and cons

The choice of pet clippers, purpose, variety. How to achieve a beautiful appearance without the extra cost of money and time

What are you for?

Do you want your pet to look good? Want to emphasize the merits of its exterior? And there is no desire to go broke on a visit to the grooming salon?

Then it's time to think about buying a machine for his haircut at home.

Hygienic haircut of a long-haired cat

Shearing alone is a serious stress for the animal. If a visit to a new place with unfamiliar or unfamiliar people, other animals, loud noises, touches of cold (or even worse, hot) metal parts to delicate skin is superimposed on it, the stress intensifies many times. And if you also pull the coat or damage the skin, it’s not far and hysterical even in a usually calm animal.

Carrying out grooming at home, in the usual conditions, with the good hands of your beloved host will be much easier, especially if you choose the right machine.

The main types

The Transfiguration of York

By design:

Vibrating

Vibrating machines belong to the class of inexpensive (from 700 rubles). For the price and benefit. They have a short service life and heat up quickly. It is unlikely that a cat or dog will agree to tolerate the touch of a hot blade on delicate skin. Therefore, such machines can only be considered as auxiliary. In principle, you can use such devices to trim the hair once every three months, if you have enough time and very strict requirements are not imposed on the result.

It is also a useful tool for quickly trimming hair in hard-to-reach places; it is better not to cut their entire pet.

Major Dog Hunfrise H11

The dog clipper Major Dog Hunfrise H11 was developed by a European brand of German origin. It is characterized by impeccable build quality, good functionality, compact dimensions and a very affordable price.

Major Dog Hunfrise H11

Features:

1. Keramotitan blades, with the help of which you can quickly and accurately make a haircut for a dog of any breed. Keramotitan blades handle even the thickest wool and do not blunt for many years.
2. Sophisticated design, thanks to which the machine works almost silently.
3. A powerful motor that ensures uninterrupted operation of the device when cutting haircuts of varying complexity.
4. 5 levels of blade adjustment.
5. Protection against electric shock.
6. Good equipment. The kit includes 4 nozzles, oil for lubrication, a brush for cleaning the knife. On some sites you can see an extended kit with additional accessories.
7. The possibility of battery life. The machine has a built-in battery with a capacity of up to 2000 mAh. In similar devices from other manufacturers, the battery capacity is less.

Characteristics:

• Battery life is up to 4 hours.
• The material of the knives is keramotitan.
• Battery capacity - 2000 mAh.
• 4 nozzles included.
• Charge indicator.

The dog clipper Major Dog Hunfrise H11 is the perfect value for money!

Moser1400

Moser1400

pros

• Low price
• Low noise

Minuses

• Low power
• Quickly heat up
• Wear out easily

Rotary

Rotary cars are the elite of the haircut world. They have more power and performance, less heat. They use high-precision bearings, state-of-the-art engines, and special knife coatings that provide minimal friction.Such machines are designed to cut animals from terrier to horse, especially if your pet is long-haired or has a dense undercoat. Equipped with high-precision bearings, minimizing noise and vibration. For short-haired animals, a power of 15-20 watts is permissible, for long-haired and especially with a thick undercoat it is better to choose a device more powerful than 30 watts.

Rotary professional machine from Aesculap

pros

• High power and performance

• Low heat and low noise
• Great resource
• Rich equipment

Minuses

• High price

Electric cars also differ in nutrition:

• From the network. Constant power, operating time is almost unlimited.
• Rechargeable. It is convenient to cut them anywhere - the wire does not interfere. However, the power drops with the discharge of the battery, in addition, with a low charge, jerks moving in jerks can pull the hair. The average operating time on one charge is from half an hour to an hour. Then a break for at least half an hour to charge. If the battery is removable and you have purchased a spare and separate charger, the break will be a minute.
• Combined. They can work both from the network and from the battery. Such devices allow you to cut large flat areas when powered from the network, and complex and inaccessible ones from the battery. Fast, convenient and expensive.

Mechanical

Mechanical cars are driven by the owner. This design has been tested for centuries, before the discovery of electricity, they were the only alternative to scissors. The mechanics do not scare the animal with noise and vibration and are best suited for dressing and haircuts in difficult and delicate places.

pros

Reliable classic-manual machine.

• Noiselessness
• Almost endless resource
• Low price

Minuses

• Low performance
• Hands get tired

Is it possible to cut an animal with a human machine

It is possible, but not for long. The hair of an animal differs from human hair in density, density, hair structure, and the presence of an undercoat. Therefore, professional devices have a different distance between the blades, a different shape and sharpening angles of the blades.

The human machine is most often enough for the back of a York or half of the side of the spaniel. Then either to sharpen, or to repair, and, possibly, to garbage. It’s better not to sharpen the knives themselves, take them to the workshop. While you learn - let out a dozen, in addition, if improperly sharpened, you can injure the animal.

In professional devices of the middle and highest level, in addition to the nozzles that regulate the length of the haircut, sets of interchangeable knives are used - their own knives for each length, in increments of 2.5 or 3 mm. You can only buy knives of the length that your pet needs

Andis Tip Set

Some models have sets of curly hair tips that allow, for example, cutting balls on the poodle’s tail, cutting the bedlington terrier “under the lamb”, the Persian cat “under the lion” and realizing any fantasy flight of the groomer or owner.

Important

An animal, especially a nervous one, needs to be accustomed to the new typewriter gradually: first let it sniff off, place it next to the resting pet, then start driving the ring with a shearing surface on the coat, then turn it on and accustom it to sound and vibration without making a haircut. And only then, when your pet gets used to the look, smell, sounds and sensations, start cutting from the back. The belly and hard-to-reach spots are best left for later, when the pet believes that the haircut does not kill him.

Haircut training is best to start from the back.

Do not start a haircut an hour before leaving for the exhibition - you may need to take breaks so that your pet calms down, to recharge the battery and for unforeseen circumstances. It is better to plan a haircut the day before, so that the animal has time to calm down and get comfortable with its new look.

Do not cut your pet in places where the skin is damaged or affected by a rash. You can’t also cut a wet and dirty coat with a machine.

Some manufacturers assure that their powerful devices can cut the tangles.It is important to understand that this applies to relatively small tangles that do not fit close to the skin. A powerful device can damage sensitive skin.

It’s not worthwhile to cut the tangles with a machine - it’s better to untangle them by treating them with a special conditioner, or, in extreme cases, cut them with a manual threader.

Ridding a cat of tricks

The blades must be held parallel to the skin, in no case resting on its points.

For the device to work for more than one year, it is necessary to clean the blades thoroughly after each cut

The haircut time directly depends on the power of the device, and for battery cars, on the battery capacity. It is important to remember that capacity drops as you use it, and you will have to consider replacing the batteries.

Leading manufacturers

Moser- A leading European manufacturer of grooming equipment. Great quality, but also high prices. It is not necessary to buy superprofessional tools for 20-40 thousand rubles, the manufacturer offers a wide range of products, younger models start in 2000 (1500 in Alibaba).

Many groomers and salons choose this brand

Wahl The American giant entered the European market on its own, subsequently entered into an alliance with Moser, having built a factory in Europe to produce the most important part - knives.

Wahl Rotary Machine

Wahl Trimmer

Also high prices and high quality

Ridian –More affordable brand owned by Moser-Wahl Giants

It produces both vibratory and rotary entry-level machines.

Andis - one of the worthy competitors of Wahl. Their corporate identity is the absence of a fan and a sealed housing, which ensures ultra-low noise and prevents the ingress of wool into the engine. Another feature is the LED illumination of the haircut zone, which allows you not to miss in hard to reach places and in dim lighting

Andis EasyClip SafeTlight

Ziver

The Russian company, founded in 2010, is a good representative of the middle price segment. More often purchased by individual owners and beginner groomers

Takumi - a professional machine will last a long time and will not fail at a crucial moment. The power range of the device is from 10 to 800 watts, a combination of high quality, excellent performance and reasonable prices. They are often chosen by farmers - sheep farmers, shearing sheep in the season for 20 hours a day. Machines would withstand all 24.

Aesculap The highest price category, produces professional devices for cutting both cats and dogs, and rabbits, goats, sheep, horses, and cattle A kind of Mercedes in the world of haircuts

AESCULAP ​​ECONOM II GT 494 - shears from a dog to a sheep.

Conclusion

When choosing a machine, you need to consider the following factors:

• For which animal or animals will it be intended, the length of the coat, the size of the animal, which determines the area of ​​the coat, the rigidity of the outer hair and the density of the undercoat
• How often will you cut: just trim once every three months, prepare for exhibitions once a month or perform a hygienic haircut twice a year.
• Calm or shy pet.
• Planned budget

Consider not only the purchase price, but also estimate the amount of expenses during the operation (repair, replacement, sharpening of knives). As with cars, a cheap purchase can end up costing more than an expensive one.

Easy haircuts and a happy pet!