Frequently Asked Questions
Here you will find some helpful information about The Bailey Cat Co. products including our patented brush, The Bailey Brush. If the answers to your questions cannot be found, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Bailey Brush
You can with our written permission and formal purchase agreements with us. The Bailey Brush is a patented design in Canada and the US created by The Bailey Cat Co. This includes it’s likeness and the photographs found on our website including marketing materials (under copyrights), all our intellectual property, including our ownership of the industrial design patent for our cat brush.
We hope this never happens but if you find our Bailey Brush has been copied by shady manufacturers and are producing counterfeit products let us know. If you have bought large quantities of fake brushes, tell us immediately. You must stop selling the knockoff product immediately. Be aware that if the product has not been purchased from our store, or our listed distributors then assume it has been illegally produced. This is not only dangerous for pets, but dangerous for your business. We are the only legal manufacturer of the Bailey Brush and any brush of it’s likeness.
We recommend asking for a refund and reporting them to us so we can assist you in stopping this illegal activity.
We do not distribute or sell to Amazon FBA sellers in Canada. If you are looking to sell the Bailey Brush elsewhere please contact us.
If you have found this product listed for sale through Amazon Canada please contact us immediately. Our patented product is protected for sale through only our authorized retailers and brand partners.
Excellent choice. Thank you. We’d like for you to be one. Becoming an authorized distributor or retailer is simple, just fill out our contact form and we’ll be in touch.
We’d love you to become a retailer of Bailey Cat Co. products. Please contact us and we’ll introduce you to our distributors. They’ll make it real easy to start selling our products in your store.
The Bailey Brush is available through this website, The Bailey Cat Co. and our listed authorized retailers and distributors in North America. This product is not purchased wholesale or distributed legally anywhere else in the world but through our legal partners. If you have found this product available elsewhere online from China wholesale websites or other third party websites, we can assure you that this is not real or a legitimate source. Let us know of suspicious activity immediately and we will be very understanding if mistakes have been made
The Bailey Brush is the only cat brush made from the highest-quality food-grade silicone and is patented for it’s design in Canada and the United States. This prevents any brush that may have copied it’s likeness from selling online and in stores. We are also protected worldwide from products that attempt to copy our patented design.
Our brush is 100% pure silicone making it dense, durable, flexible and long lasting.
You bet it is! We call it friendly for a few reasons.
1. Quality. The nature of pure silicone means it’s durable and longer lasting than plastic or rubber. When it comes to producing the best high-quality designer brush we want the best quality silicone. When the Bailey Brush is on the shelves next to other products – there’s no comparison.
2. Plastic products are bad. Real bad. After many years plastics break down producing micro-plastics that are harmful for your pets, the oceans, and us. Tossing any kind of plastic is a shame. Silicone on the other hand has unique properties that break down safely and because of this are less harmful to the environment, and with a higher quality silicone it can last over 3X longer than inferior products so you can use them for longer.
3. More durable than rubber. Our silicone Bailey Brush is designed to be safe. This includes surviving being dunked in boiling water to be properly sanitized. This is great for vet clinics and for use with pets at home that may have fragile immune systems. This even helps reduce dander and allergens. Rubber and plastic brushes do not work this way. Rubber begins to break down immediately and deteriorates with use. Plastic is unsafe and leaches harmful chemicals. If your pets safety is a concern we recommend to never use synthetic rubber or plastic containing BPAs.
If used properly, The Bailey Brush is completely safe. In fact, it’s made from high-quality 100% pure silicone to be long lasting, durable and can be sanitized in hot water. This is especially important for uses in vet clinics and at home with pets with weakened immune systems. It is also helpful in cleaning to prevent dander and reduce allergens or germs transferring between pets.
We do recommend using one Bailey Brush per pet and not sharing amongst pets (cats don’t like to share anyways).
We also recommend avoiding gimmick brushes with metal bristles, pulling gloves, misty brushes, steam brushes or brushes with small or moving parts.
The Bailey Brush has a great feature unlike other pet brushes as it can be sanitized in boiling water. First remove excess hair from your brush and rinse your bailey brush under the tap. Bring a pot of water to a boil and carefully place the bailey brush in the pot for a few minutes stirring occasionally. Carefully remove the brush with tongs and let the brush cool for a few minutes before touching or using the brush. Be sure not to let the brush sit against a red hot surface or open flame as that will damage your bailey brush. If your brush shows signs of wear or damage from being accidentally used as a chew toy, for your pet’s safety replace immediately. Do not leave brush unattended near children or pets.
To see a list of our current products visit our product page.
We can help. If you are an authorized retailer of Bailey Cat Co. products you are entitled to use our logo and our images. Please contact us and we’ll send you a link to download our media kit and brand guidelines so you represent our brand in the best way with the highest quality images.
Bailey Better Bags
If you know us, we are a ‘cat first’ company, but not cats only. Our Bailey Better Bags are perfect for litter scoops, ideal for doggy poops, and also a great option for your organic kitchen scraps. Just like our bags, our famous Bailey Brush is not only perfect for small dogs, it’s preferred by them!
We’re not in the business of making plastic bags and we can proudly say we never will be. Our Bailey Better Bags are only still categorized as “plastic” because they feel like plastic by definition and are used the same way – but they aren’t traditional plastic, they are plant-based and made of corn and are not made of plastic.
Scientifically speaking, the Better Bags are made from corn starch. A polylactic acid or (PLA), which is a plastic substitute made from fermented plant starch is then added as an alternative to traditional plastic. PBAT is a polymer that is added to give it that elastic feel. It’s the best because it breaks down completely when it’s composted and leaves no toxic residues behind. The recipe is exact and allows us to call our bags a truly 100% compostable bag.
Nope. Are they better? Ofcourse! Currently, science has given us this option as the best alternative to plastic for pet waste bags, other than a renewable material, like paper. We’ll keep manufacturing Better Bags until there’s something better and then we’ll make that instead!
We believe the costs of not using a 100% compostable bag are higher. We put “compostable” in quotations because some manufacturers sell green plastic bags that under current regulations can technically still be composted. These products can still contain plastics or recycled plastics. The problem with bags now is that not all bags are created equal – bags that aren’t 100% compostable are incredibly inexpensive to make, resulting in the less expensive options you may see in stores and online.
In Canada, the regulations for plastic bags aren’t there. No one is stopping big manufacturers from making plastic bags for waste.
A good rule of thumb is if it’s dirt cheap, assume there is plastic in them. Buy local and ask your local shops to carry plant-based 100% compostable pet waste bags.
The second Bailey Better Bags are made, they are starting to break down. 1 year is what we classify as our “Strongest Before Date” depending on how they are stored. We recommend a cool and dry location away from sunlight. They will still be usable after 1 year but will begin to lose it’s strength after that time.
Most scents are bad for pets. Veterinarians have recommended that all materials near your cats and dogs be unscented. It’s another reason why we’ve made our bags thick to block out odours, naturally.
- If it’s dog poop, and you’re out in public, please put it in a pet waste bin or the garbage. Don’t leave them in the forest, trails or roads.
- If you’re at home, remove it from the bag and flush the poop in the toilet. If you have a pet waste composter you can compost the bag. To learn more on how to make your own pet waste composter click here.
- If it’s cat litter scoops, plug your nose and put it in the trash. Never flush the bags.
- If it’s organics, put the bag and the organics in your home compost. It will turn into soil within 90 days in the right conditions.
Don’t compost pet waste in compost that you intend to grow a vegetable garden with, it could make you sick.
Definitely not. Unfortunately, dissolvable pet waste bags make wonderful claims that the product dissolves into water and magically disappears. You might even see some wild videos of people drinking a glass of water that a bag had dissolved into. We can’t imagine anyone dissolving pet poop in a hot glass of water and then drinking it but we see the point they are trying to make.
Dissolvable pet waste bags are actually a material called PVA, Polyvinyl Alcohol. It’s the same material commonly used in Laundry Detergent Pods. As more studies are being done on their environmental impacts, it’s quite interesting to see this product getting into some hot water with their claims, literally.
Besides the fact that this product doesn’t break down in cold water, or the ocean, or landfills and has some harmful environmental effects, it expels 6 times more carbon just to produce them. If everyone switched to dissolvable bags we’d have a problem 6 times greater than where we’re at today.
To do more research here’s some helpful articles to learn more about the risks of using PVA products:
Blueland – PVA is plastic – https://www.blueland.com/articles/what-is-pva-and-its-impact-on-the-environment
Are ‘water-soluble’ bags really a solution to single-use plastics?
https://thecircularlaboratory.com/are-these-water-soluble-bags-really-a-solution-to-single-use-plastics-in-the-fashion-industry
It may at first seem like a no-brainer to purchase bags from a company that makes millions off claims that they remove millions of tonnes of potential plastic from landfills. We can’t help but take issue with why companies that claim they are ethical and eco-friendly bother producing plastic bags in the first place. I guess we answered our question in the first sentence there. There’s a lot of money in doing that.
The issue is that most pet waste bags are still thrown in the garbage and not recycled so it doesn’t matter if it’s virgin plastic or second-use plastic, they will most likely end up in a landfill.
