Brush, comb, or coat rake

Grooming in this shop is a set of tools, not a treatment. They live in grooming. The name on the product is the type. A brush is a brush. A comb is a comb. A coat rake is a rake. A towel is for water. Using one word, “brush,” for all four is how people buy the wrong object.

Brush or comb

A brush or a comb passes through coat. That is the job. We do not publish a bristle type, a pin length, or a coat-type chart for the collection, because most products do not state those facts. If the page names a material, use that sentence. If it does not, do not invent nylon, wire, or bristle. Start on a small area. If the tool scrapes skin, stop. That is handling, not a product specification.

Coat rake

A coat rake is filed as a rake, including under coat rakes when that is the category on the product. It is not a comb with a different photo. People reach for a rake when the undercoat is dense and a comb is only skating on top. We do not claim it removes a whole season of undercoat, and we do not claim it is safe on every coat. If the coat is matted down to the skin, stop and use a groomer. A rake is the wrong tool for a mat that is already tight, and it is the wrong tool for a wound.

Towel

A towel dries. It does not detangle. After a winter walk it is the layer between the wet dog and the bed. See winter walking. Wash instructions, if they exist, are on that towel’s page. We do not invent a machine cycle.

Not a dog, if it is filed under horses

A brush filed under horses is a horse brush. Do not move it onto a dog because the word brush appears in both places. Skin, fleas, and itch are not solved by any object in this category. That is a veterinarian, not a product grid.