The animal care- and cleaning device has a brush body (6), which is driven around a rotational axis (4) in the rotational direction (2). The brush body is guided in rotary receptacles (8,10) on its both ends, and the rotary receptacles are connected with a holding device (26). The upper of the two rotary receptacles have a greater distance from the holding device than the lower rotary receptacle for an inclination of the rotational axis of the brush body relative to the vertical.