EpiladyFlea Zapper Electronic Flea Comb for Dogs or Cats, Chemical and Toxin Free EP40120

This thing is brilliant. I haven’t found anything better. It works a treat - it kills the small harder to catch fleas outright and it stuns the large ones so you can comb them out easily and drown them in sudsy water. It is a little flimsy and easy to accidentally turn it off as you are using it which is a touch irritating. It gets blocked up easily but it includes an unblocker brush and I have had it for 3 or 4 years now and it still works well. Don’t use nasty toxic flea chemicals - use this! With a raw or real food diet and this as a fail safe you don’t need anything else! If you don’t want to feed real or raw food to your dog then you will need to use this much more and I’d recommend using a cedar oil spray as a deterrent for walks too. Harmful chemicals are not necessary at all!

So. Before buying I read a LOT of reviews as they all seemed to say it was amazing, or useless. So. I’m going to give a proper objective review to help others. This item is actually not as bad as a lit of people make out. Not perfect, but, actually pretty good. So the noise it makes isn’t too bad, could scare some animals, but didn’t scare mine so that’s good. The comb prongs could be a little longer - my fat is a domestic short hair and the hair is too thick and long in places for the prongs to reach the skin. But, if you change the angle of the comb so it’s perpendicular to the skin it works fine (and as it’s electrified it doesn’t need to be at an angle to lift fleas out - as soon as they touch it they are electrocuted). The battery cover build quality isn’t great but to be honest it doesn’t fall off. And if it does, it looks easy to tape up. It comes with a little cleaning brush to get fleas, flea dirt and fur off the comb which works well. So. Down to whether it works or not. Yes. Mostly! Probably 80% of the time it kills fleas on contact. The noise means that current is flowing. And when something makes a short circuit (like a flea) the sound stops. This indicates you’ve got something caught in the comb. So lifting the unit away from the animal will show you what you’ve got. Mostly it’s a flea but sometimes the unit will stop because of flea dirt or other particles in the fur. About 20% of yhstime though the flea is stunned and not completely electrocuted so best to just check. But they certainly aren’t capable of jumping away so are easy to kill. The only recommendation I would give is to regularly clean fur and dirt off the unit as it will not electrify again until the short circuit is removed - IE, the dead flea is removed. Also if the comb is full of fur then it can push the flea away from the electrified prongs and mean it doesn’t get electrocuted at all. And then it will jump away. So. Comb a few times, then clean the comb, then carry on. And for fur that seems too long or thick, just part it and do it in small chunks. Then this does exactly what it says it does. Overall I completely recommend it! It really does work as long as you bare the above comments in mind.

I love this zapper and have been raving about it to my family ever since I purchased it.3 months we’ve had fleas in the house. I’ve tried everything possible.We have 2 cats and one little pup so it’s a never ending cycle of combing, vacuuming, cleaning, dog washing and treating everything each day.Trying to comb all 3 but only being able to bathe one fur baby was becoming too much.The cats are 10yrs old and too set in their ways of escaping each and every attempt of bathing I’ve tried. ( plus I value my hands way too much to be shredded by the talons)This has literally changed my routine. One hand rubs their ears and the other electrocutes the nasty little pests.All you do is comb, catch, pop them and wipe the corpses off the comb.It’s easy to hold, use and clean, works instantly, plus all 3 now LOVE being brushed.(Also, it’s immensely satisfying watching the little b*****ds fry)Don’t get any other brand but this one.

Well, actually I love it BUT it stops working after a little more than a month. My dog has long hair so I cannot just comb through. My trick is to search for the fleas and then insert the zapper to fry them. Much easier than trying to catch them by hand. It doesn't get rid of the eggs and is not as efficient as you would wish for the price but with the long fur the normal flea comb is definitely not an option so this definitely beats picking out by hand. The down side is that the zapper stops working soon. This is my second one and neither has lasted. I thought the first was faulty so gave it another go.After a few weeks of use the zapper stops buzzing right away when it is switched on. I gave everything a careful, thorough clean but that didn't help. I had to switch it on and leave it for a minute before it would work. That minute gradually lengthened and now it will not start at all. Whwn you retract the teeth it buzzes nicely but that is just no use. Oh, and another thing, if you just zap the fleas in passing they only seem to be stunned. I need to leave them touching the zapper for a few seconds before they are definitely dead. And that makes such lovely flea fireworks if it's getting slightly darker :DI hope that helps

I purchased one of these in desperation, as I found fleas on my two cats and dog despite using Frontline. When you can get it to work correctly it is an amazing little gadget and does exactly what they claim and I have managed to get rid of quite a few fleas. The battery compartment is very tight for the batteries though and they do not fit particularly well and connection is then lost, it is difficult to get the compartment lid back on once the batteries are in and you have to try and slide them in side by side rather than separately otherwise it is difficult to get them to fit at all and because of the tight space the batteries become damaged, ie the plastic round them gets roughed up and sometimes small pieces come off. I love this gadget and hope the people that supply it will take note and improve it slightly, I would most definately buy another and will persevere with this one until they do. It most certainly is preferable to chemicals on my animals.