Grooming Tilly the Dust Bunny

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- 05/29/2015 at 7:10 AM
  Cottontail
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  How do you deal with your bunny blowing it’s coat?
  
  Tilly is our lovely little blue girl that miraculously turns into a dusty light gray shedding machine every few weeks. When you pet her, clouds of almost white-gray fur fly into the air and coat everything. We’ve brushed her and combed her but she will only put up with it for so long… and plucking works better but results in circling, grunting, and thumping. I’ve joked with the hubby that we should try to vacuum her, but I am sure that won’t work due to the noise. He was tempted to try to give her a bath in hopes the wet fur would be easier to collect from her, but we don’t want to bathe her unnecessarily.
  
  Our little dusty-mutt-bunny also gets random long tufts (mainly on her feet) that will be a good 1-2 inches longer than the rest of her coat. When I see them I initially think they are loose fur, but then realize that they are QUITE attached. I’ve been trimming these down with scissors when they crop up because I don’t want someone tugging them out by mistake. I suspect the long tufts are a result of being a mixed breed… not sure what her heritage is.
  
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- 05/29/2015 at 8:05 AM
  JackRabbit
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  Marlee and Moshi both get the long foot tufts, not quite that long but long enough that I’ve thought a tuft was a broken toe sticking out the side!
  
  We comb the lops every evening during salads. This has made a huge difference in the amount of fluff coming off at one time. Have you tried the hairbuster comb (BB store)? It holds on to the fur coming out and keeps you from grooming in a cloud of fluff!
- 05/29/2015 at 9:30 AM
  Cottontail
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  I haven’t gotten the hairbuster comb yet, but we’ve got a furminator, a de-shedder, flea combs, rubber brushes, lint brushes, hair brushes… it just seems that no matter how much fur we get off her while she’s in this mode, she always ends up with an angora impersonation come breakfast time the next day!
  Here is her impersonation this morning: Keeping in mind that she’s normally a nice dark blue-gray hue like my siggy when not shedding. Messy girl!
- 05/29/2015 at 6:56 PM
  Little Lion Head
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  Use a giant lint roller. Not even kidding. Boston was the sheddy-est bunny ever. It literally never stopped and it was in clumps and dusty like you are describing. We kept lint rollers everywhere. You can’t really “roll” them persay, but just touching the sticky part to her helped so much. And it doesn’t yank out hair that shouldn’t come out.
  
  We used the furminator with Boston too but I think it made her shed more.
- 05/29/2015 at 8:33 PM
  JackRabbit
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  I would seriously get a hairbuster. The furminator works greatvon Kieko with her short silky fur, but my lops have thicker fur that’s longer than Kieko’s and the hairbuster is amazing on their fur.
  
  LLH — we have a bunch of lint rollers around the bunny areas but use them on us! I even have one in my bunny bag and offered it to our vet after Marlee “ejected” fur all over her!
- 05/29/2015 at 10:52 PM
  Peapod026
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  My boy merlin looks exactly like Tilly right now! Lots of long tufts that I try to pull out and are still attached! I have a furbuster/hairbuster that works but merlin only tolerates so much (sounds like Tilly does too). I wet my hands and pet him to get excess fur off, but he won’t tolerate a full brush session and is always “tufty”. I am gonna have to try the lint roller method–and if you find a good solution cottontail–let me know!
- 05/30/2015 at 2:11 AM
  JackRabbit
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  …..pictures everyone chasing bunnies with lint rollers …..!
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