Emery Cat: Product Review Redux

Note: This is a re-post.  I need to post this every time those shysters build up enough in their coffers for more TV commercials...

I had never bought anything off of the television in my entire life until I became unemployed and starting keeping the hours of a vampire.  Anyway, the first item they got me with was the “Sham-Wow!”  (More about that later.) and they just got me again recently with the “Emery Cat.”  These TV-hawked products take an inordinate amount of time to arrive in comparison to items you might buy off of Amazon, or eBay, etc.  I have never understood why this is.  I can only guess that they are coming from Hong Kong, or coming from Hong Kong and they also have to wait for the heroin to arrive for them to stuff into the false bottom of the shipping box.  I don’t know.   If you have ever clipped a cat’s claws manually for their entire life on a semi-regular basis, you can imagine how appealing this product might seem.  So I took a chance on ordering this miracle product, with a buy one get one offer, that looked like a piece of corrugated cardboard that someone spray-mounted some sand to.  In fact, I knew in the back of my mind that is exactly what it would be.  Well, after opening the box, my first surprise was noting how incredibly cheap the plastic base was for the cardboard.  It was so thin, that when the cats stuck their heads under it, which they were somehow inclined to do, it wiggled and buckled.  They seemed much more interested in the feather baton toy that came with the Emery Cat than filing their nails on it.  At one point, the closest one of them came to having physical contact with the nail file was when my one cat Romano rubbed his ass on it.  Unless he was trying to file down an anal fissure scar, I don’t see the value.  As far as the miracle fur-busting cat brush that also came with it for free, it looked like it would bend in half if you used it on a hamster.  The product also leaves sand EVERYWHERE.  So, my review is thumbs sideways.  Kind of like it was with the "Sham-Wow!" which was by no means a great product, but was as useful in sopping up cat pee as much as I imagine it would be for blotting hooker blood.