SCAREDY CUT Silent Pet Grooming Kit for Dogs, Cats and All Pet Grooming - A Quiet Alternative to Electric Clippers for Sensitive Pets (Right-Handed Blue)

Whenever I brought my rescue 14 year old Terri-poo from the groomers, there were areas that need more cutting. I would use a regular grooming scissors with blunt tip, but most often resulted in an uneven cut. This product is the simple and successful solution. It was easy to use, my little "Bo" was comfortable while I trimmed him; the final result was excellent...and I highly recommend. Wish I could give it 10 stars!

I have 2 cats and they didn’t like the sound of regular scissors when I tried trimming them. These scissors didn’t make any noise when I trimmed them so they stayed still for me and I was able to get them all trimmed up. Well worth the money.

Edited review 2/28/15:This company really stands behind their product; after I expressed my dissatisfaction with the trimmer, they immediately addressed my concerns by giving my a refund and offering me further instructions as well as a replacement trimmer. I'm impressed by that level of customer service and I truly think this is a good company that produces quality products (as I said in my original review, I love their Scaredy Cut Tiny Trim scissors). In my particular case, I was not able to use the trimmer satisfactorily (I couldn't complete step 4--evening out the fur with rapid cuts--even though I read the instructions and watched the instructional video multiple times). I opted not to accept the replacement trimmer because I don't want to take the chance of messing up my cat's fur again, but I am very satisfied with the company's prompt and polite resolution of the situation.-----Original review:I wanted to like this tool, I really did. I have the Scaredy Cut Tiny Trim scissors and I love them, so when I saw this I thought it would be a wonderful way to easily and inexpensively groom my long-haired cat myself. Spoilers: it wasn't.The pros of this tool is that it is not bothersome or alarming to the animal.The cons are that I gave my cat a bowl cut. A BOWL CUT.Have you seen Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber? That's what my beautiful cat looked like. The directions say that this rough, ragged look is a normal stage in the process; in the last step, you're supposed to effortlessly glide in with the trimmer and snip-snip-snip the fur into a lovely, short, uniform cut like the animals' in the product video, but that didn't work out for me. I felt so bad about making my cat look like a social reject that I had to take him to the groomer's so they could fix it.The only groomer's office that was open for me to drop him off at before work was PetSmart, and they only do Lion Cuts on cats. Have you seen a Lion Cut on a cat before? Go on, Google it--I'll wait here. Ok, did you see it? Horrible, right? It's flat-out ugly. My little guy was walking around with a shaved body and fur booties for months until all his fur grew in again. In this time period I bought a lot of festive sweaters for him to cover up what I'd done.Maybe an expert animal groomer can use this tool with confidence and get great results, but I can't. It was a costly mistake.

Great idea but the scissor finger holes are VERY, VERY, VERY SMALL ! Thats why 3 and not 5 stars

I have never written a product review but my experience with this product is worth telling - and hopefully helpful to those that view it...I ordered the Scaredy Cut clipper set in December 2011, received the item in just a few days, and set out to use the largest comb (#6) with clippers on Jake, my 8 month old 60 lb labradoodle. While trying to change the combs out (it came with the smallest comb installed), the comb plate broke off the scissors and the plastic clip broke on the comb - wow I thought - complete junk!...After reading the few 'not so good' reviews here at Amazon I noticed that Matthew Michel of the Scaredy Cut company had replied to all with genuine concern and offers of assistance. I contacted the company by email immediately and received a response from Matthew within 3 hours. Here's what I was told - the plate is attached to the scissors with two spot welds that are extremely strong when in the correct place. Occasionally the spot welds are misplaced and the contact is weakened - which happened in my case. In addition the combs can be stiff at first use but once broken-in should work fine. Matthew suggested running them under warm water and pre-flexing so the combs are more pliable when attaching to the plate. Finally he offered to ship out a replacement set immediately with combs that he would pre-flex personally.I received the replacement kit in a few days with all combs pre-flexed and ready to go. Placed the #6 comb on the clippers and set to work. It took me about 2 hours total to do the whole pup - worked in 20 minute intervals with breaks between - I'm guessing a bit over an hour of actual cutting - enough to get a pretty good blister. Then did some trimming around the neck and face with smaller combs. I cut an incredible amount of hair - even clogged the vacuum cleaner! This was his first cut so I expect that maintaining it will be a bit easier and not so time consuming.Considering I have no previous experience with pet grooming, Scaredy Cut worked EXTREMELY well. Nothing describes the results better than a picture so I posted `before' and `after' shots with the product image at the top of the page. I didn't have the greatest `before' image, but I think you can tell Jake had an abundance of fur.The product worked perfect for me. Jake is much happier (and cooler!) without all the hair, and looks better too! The response and genuine concern from the company is exceptional. I highly recommend it for anyone who can't - or doesn't want to - use electric clippers, or shell out the money for professional grooming.