vicious instrument

I have a roommate. Not just the dog, my companion Ruby, but another entity that is always here in the apartment with us. Dog hair. Lots of it. Tufts, balls, floating wisps, clumps in the corner, stray sticklers in the upholstery, shadows on the sheets. No vacuum cleaner can keep up the battle, the shedding is unstoppable. Until today. My new Bamboo Shedding Blade arrived. It's a wicked looking thing, styled to match its name; "Blade". The package recommended using outdoors because it removes copious amounts of dead hair, claiming to "reduce indoor shedding'. Ok, Blade, let's see what you can do. Oh my god! I love this thing! Ruby, not so much, but she can suffer twenty minutes of grooming on the balcony once in awhile. A few minutes of trembling and mild discomfort (mostly mental)=oodles of peanut butter. It is deeply satisfying to see volumes of fur removed quickly and contained on the balcony, rather than accumulating on my sofa. The "Blade" produced HALF A GROCERY BAG of dead fur! Four full dustpan loads that won't make their way into my pillowcase. Yippee!