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You are so sweet! This helped me so much because our cat is 13 and will no longer cooperate with the groomer. I bought a clipper and one of these combs and will continue to try at home. Such great advice on how to use the comb. Hi from St. Louis, USA!
Thank you Gale for your lovely comment. I do hope my video content has helped you and your furbaby. Unfortunately the older cats tend to have aches and pains and can get a little grumpy if grooming hurts them. This is where the groomer needs to be aware and pick up on any discomfort that the pusscat is showing. Good luck with your grooming sessions, I hope they go well. Just remember, little and often is always best for our fur babies.
Simba is very chill. I'm in the process of belly mats with my 2 year old who didn't develop them until this fall's coat. He is NOT CHILL. I really need 3 hands to deal with him. They are especially bad behind his front arms.
I watched this because I have a cat from the RSPCA who suddenly decided we couldn’t groom him. I got the comb today and did 2 minutes combing before he decided enough was enough, I got some loose fur out, I’m going to take your advice and do a bit more every day 🙂 thank you. No blood was spilled today 😊
It's painful for a cat to have matting that bad. The cats skin is real thin and the matt can cause pulling. I have a long hair myself and brush him at 4 - 5 times a week. We are lucky he loves getting brushed. I'm so glad he is getting the grooming he needs. Great job ☺️👍
it just takes a lot of encouragement and persistence with your grooming regime on a daily basis. Over time, it is amazing how cooperative even the most feral cat can become when it is a normal daily occurrence being groomed.
Thank You for the video.Simba and Ricky look alike.Ricky is 15 and spends a lot of time outside,and loves to be brushed.He has belly mats.I'll try using the multingcomb you show -a little at a time.We used to have to send his sister for a Lion-cut.She would get dreadlocks otherwise.My daughter clipped her longhair cat and he looks great.
Thank you for this very informative video. However, I would love to see this demonstrated on a less cooperative cat. I think most cats would not tolerate that without some kind of sedation. Also, I love your hand/arm protection. Can you provide a link for that item?
Hiya Kat, Thank you for your comment. Many of these cats you see on these videos i have been tending to for a while now. Many of them were incredibly intolerant of me when I first visited them. However, cats have to be handled with complete love and patience. And if it takes 2 or 3 visits to get a groom completed, then so be it. Over time, they start to trust me that I am not there to hurt them or cause them any discomfort. I have been bitten, scratched, full on attacked and ended up in hospital on various occasions on antibiotic drips etc I have NEVER used sedation - it goes against everything I stand for. Building up the trust is the key thing for me and over time and repetition working closely with my fur baby Mum and Dads who keep up as much grooming on a daily ritual in between my visits is key. I have witnessed feral cats turn to become the most loving cats through regular grooming. It just takes a lot of effort and patience from us human beings rather than wanting things sorted like yesterday. Cat's have taught me a lot of lessons over the past 5.5 years.
Awesome, THANK YOU, I love your style !!! My cat is 16 yo. Very emaciated, skin very loose, going to try the belly clip. Thanks for the comb suggestion. Bless you.
Such a good boy! Wish my elderly calico was that good. We have to use an organic sedative for her. I'm getting sleepy just watching him get combed. So glad I found your videos. You are gentle and soft-spoken and that helps reduce their stress.
Aww thank you so much for your comment. It means a lot. Keep working with your calico and one day you may find you don't need the organic sedative. Staying calm and softly spoken is the number one priority when working with fur babies. Any tension feeds through to the cats immediately.
For dread maintenance; I have 2 American curls from Curl Essence in California. They are long hair siblings. However very different fur density. One has very long hair and seems to have an extra layer more than her sister. Her hair drags on the ground and dreads easily. She looks like she is wearing a movie star coat so her name is "Diva". I brush and comb her and remove her dread pretty effortlessly with my fingers spreading the new ones. I don't use scissors.The thicker ones I use a seam ripper. I never point it at the body of the cat but rather move it along side the shaft towards the ends and break up the dreads. If they are tangled across the skin I can cut the dread out with the razor part of the seem ripper. She rarely complains. If she does I stop and start again later. Her spit is sticky and seems to create the dreads. Her fur gets in wet food plate. She loves a supervised ramp in the yard in the morning and gets her fur wet grazing in the grass. Argh! Her sister "Sheshe" gets a few dreads now and then but nothing like Divas. I recently acquired another American Curl. His name is "Leontopolis" and his fur is more like Sheshe. However he has large plumes of fur sticking out from his front arm pits that I have never seen on any cat before. Funny boy.
He's so calm. My long haired rescue hates having her belly and armpits touched. It's been nearly 2 years with my mobile groomer and we're slowly making improvements. So far she's had to go vets to be sedated and have a lion cut. We're hoping that we can do it at home with nutricalm to help her. I want to avoid sedation as she has a mild heart murmur. When we first got her, she'd rip your skin if you even went near her with a brush, now she angry eats her lick-e-lix until she's had enough and swiped you. I'm hoping I can Be able to fully brush her in time without too many issues.
Hiya, it all comes down to handling your pusscat on a daily basis and getting them used to be handling. Many of my clients of course I see for the first time, so I don't know how they will behave. It is a case of staying calm and extremely patient when you have a cat that won't stay still. If you can get someone to help you, then all the better. You never want to force the cat into position, it will never work! It all comes down to encouraging them, lots of praise and just doing bits at a time. You can always come back tomorrow and do a bit more. Slowly, over time, your cat will start to trust that nothing awful is going to happen and will sit for longer for you. Hope this helps.
Our cat is medium haired and we brush him twice a week but he still gets matts as he is a lazy shit😆 as he doesn't groom himself, I've now invested in grooming tools as if we are looking after a spoilt movie star, I guess we will have to groom him 4 times a week. Does anyone know if the matts will get less in the summer months due to his fur not being so thick🤔 Thanks for the informative video @Lovecatsgroomer❤️
This is such a wonderful cat. 🐱 There is no way my cat would lay there that still for me to groom out the mats like that, so now what? What is the best way to groom a "Do not touch me THERE, EVER!!" loving but stubborn cat?
Hi Michelle, you are certainly not on your own there! It all comes down to you grooming just a little every single day and starting to touch those difficult areas for your cat. As long as you keep your grooming regime up daily and continue being brave in moving your hands over the difficult areas, your fur baby will eventually accept and trust you enough to groom all over. It all comes down to your own perseverance in grooming daily, even if it is just a few minutes a day and then slowly increasing the time. I have had many an aggressive cat come round after me visiting regularly and with Mum also grooming daily in between my visits. Just keep at it - you will be amazed one day when your pusscat suddenly just lets you do a groom everywhere.
Hi there, and thanks for watching my channel. The company are actually called ARM CHAPS and are based in the US. You can send them your arm measurements and they make them to fit. Mine have lasted me for years and have protected me from many attacks! Here is their URL armchaps.com/
Hello! I'm a dog groomer and planning on tackling a friend's kitten this weekend. He needs a belly clip for sure, very matted. Did simba have a bath and blow dry before all this? How roughly much do you charge for a belly clip and brush out
It makes me so sad to see such a lovely cat in such a state. When he looked at the camera it really choked me up. I wish people just didn’t get long haired cats if they can’t keep up with their maintenance😔 On a positive note, I had no idea you could tease small knots like that. Very helpful. I’m just adding another comment to this after watching further. Super interesting to learn your view on being gentle due to having long hair yourself. I also have long hair. I’ve had hair down to my waist all my life and I sympathise greatly with cats because of this, especially when I’m merely patting or gently brushing my cats which I do daily for hours at a time because we all enjoy it so much. I’m so enjoying your content! Love love love Simba. Sad also to learn he goes outdoors with having seizures and a heart condition but there you go. He’s just gorgeous. What a good boy❤️
Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and to comment also. Unfortunately many people take longhaired cats on because they look so adorable but have no idea they need to groom them until it's too late and they become matted. I'm glad you learnt about teasing small knots away - that is the whole reason why I started this channel. If just one person learns something to help their cats, then my efforts have paid off. Thank you for sharing that with me.
@@LoveCatsGroomer I have had 4 cats with long coats never had a problem with matting as I brushed them but my latest cat hates being brushed even in fits and starts, she is not a lap cat either. She has gotten a few mats as a result which I will need to clip now. I wish people would not assume matted cats are due to neglect, sometimes they are just impossible to groom .
Some of us get longhaired cats without really looking to do so. All of my cats are rescues, either from feral or owners who rehomed them. Case in point, Rebel, a grey fluffy barn kitten we got free with a load of hay. Strangely, for s random bred cat, his fur is soft as cashmere and of a texture that mats horribly. We have the extra problem of taming him enough to tolerate us and keeping him from getting bound up in mats. I recently bought s grooming set with clippers, and I'm here on the channel to learn proper technique and tips. We have three other longhaired cats, one quite elderly whom I don't want to subject to the stress of a vet visit and sedation.
I was adopted by a long haired cat. I had a long haired cat and absolutely did NOT want another. But she showed up at my house emaciated and pregnant. Should I just left her like that because I didn't want a long haired cat? She absolutely HATES being brushed... I'm here trying to learn how
@@LoveCatsGroomer I'm late in my reply to you but after a reply to my comment today I realise that I didn't word my response to your video well at all and I want to correct that. What I meant to say was that it saddens me when it is a case of people that purely want a cat for it's looks, they don't take the care to look into the upkeep required for the breed and so on versus all of the examples that have been given in the replies to my comments such as cats that simply hate being brushed and those which are feral and rehomed cats. It may be of interest to know that I myself have now become the owner of a cat that no longer enjoys having his tummy or flanks groomed. This is leading to very stressful moments for me when I do brush and comb him, and actually makes me want to leave it rather than stress him which only exacerbates the issue, so I do sympathise! I just wasn't clear in my original comment. I didn't mean to offend anyone. We are all clearly here to be educated by someone that I personally think has the most effective, least stressful technique I've seen online. Many thanks for sharing your expertise.
I've got an arthritic 19 year-old cat with some serious pelts, would you recommend vets or groomers as my family is worried about having such an old cat under anesthetic?
I would defo say groomers. That's the whole reason I began grooming so as to encourage people to groom their cats to enable them from getting pelts in the first place. However, if it had already happened, then some can be combed and teased away but if they are so tight to the skin tou cannot get a Comb behind the pelts, then clipping is required. I hate putting any animal under anaesthetic unless absolutely necessary for surgical reasons. Take your time and try to tease the pelts away slowly. You don't have to do it all in one session. Or find yourself a groomer who can clip them away for you. With your pusscat being arthritic, he may prefer the clippers as it will be quicker for him. Good luck.
I NEVER sedate cats. That is the whole reason I began cat grooming as my local vets would put them under anaesthetic to clip them and I thought that this was too harsh. I am trained in animal reiki and communication so I use my energy to calm any cat that arrives on my grooming table. It usually works on the anxious owners too!!
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You are so sweet! This helped me so much because our cat is 13 and will no longer cooperate with the groomer. I bought a clipper and one of these combs and will continue to try at home. Such great advice on how to use the comb. Hi from St. Louis, USA!
Thank you Gale for your lovely comment. I do hope my video content has helped you and your furbaby. Unfortunately the older cats tend to have aches and pains and can get a little grumpy if grooming hurts them. This is where the groomer needs to be aware and pick up on any discomfort that the pusscat is showing.
Good luck with your grooming sessions, I hope they go well.
Just remember, little and often is always best for our fur babies.
Mine bit the shit out of me earlier trying to get mats out earlier.
Simba is very chill. I'm in the process of belly mats with my 2 year old who didn't develop them until this fall's coat. He is NOT CHILL. I really need 3 hands to deal with him. They are especially bad behind his front arms.
I watched this because I have a cat from the RSPCA who suddenly decided we couldn’t groom him. I got the comb today and did 2 minutes combing before he decided enough was enough, I got some loose fur out, I’m going to take your advice and do a bit more every day 🙂 thank you. No blood was spilled today 😊
Simba is such a darling :)
I never really knew how to groom properly. Thank you very much
It's painful for a cat to have matting that bad. The cats skin is real thin and the matt can cause pulling. I have a long hair myself and brush him at 4 - 5 times a week. We are lucky he loves getting brushed. I'm so glad he is getting the grooming he needs. Great job ☺️👍
What a sweet kitty. I wish my fur baby is this cooperative. 😭
it just takes a lot of encouragement and persistence with your grooming regime on a daily basis. Over time, it is amazing how cooperative even the most feral cat can become when it is a normal daily occurrence being groomed.
Thank You for the video.Simba and Ricky look alike.Ricky is 15 and spends a lot of time outside,and loves to be brushed.He has belly mats.I'll try using the multingcomb you show -a little at a time.We used to have to send his sister for a Lion-cut.She would get dreadlocks otherwise.My daughter clipped her longhair cat and he looks great.
Thank you for this very informative video. However, I would love to see this demonstrated on a less cooperative cat. I think most cats would not tolerate that without some kind of sedation. Also, I love your hand/arm protection. Can you provide a link for that item?
Gabapentin from the vet worked like a charm for our cat, but no longer helps.
Hiya Kat,
Thank you for your comment. Many of these cats you see on these videos i have been tending to for a while now. Many of them were incredibly intolerant of me when I first visited them. However, cats have to be handled with complete love and patience. And if it takes 2 or 3 visits to get a groom completed, then so be it.
Over time, they start to trust me that I am not there to hurt them or cause them any discomfort.
I have been bitten, scratched, full on attacked and ended up in hospital on various occasions on antibiotic drips etc
I have NEVER used sedation - it goes against everything I stand for.
Building up the trust is the key thing for me and over time and repetition working closely with my fur baby Mum and Dads who keep up as much grooming on a daily ritual in between my visits is key.
I have witnessed feral cats turn to become the most loving cats through regular grooming.
It just takes a lot of effort and patience from us human beings rather than wanting things sorted like yesterday.
Cat's have taught me a lot of lessons over the past 5.5 years.
I love him! He's so cute and fluffy and sweet! I want to give him so many kisses!
Wow, how I wish Tincer would be as well behaved for you (and me!) as Simba....he is sooooo well behaved!
Love the cat videos
Awesome, THANK YOU, I love your style !!!
My cat is 16 yo. Very emaciated, skin very loose, going to try the belly clip. Thanks for the comb suggestion. Bless you.
Great video on grooming a matter cat. Lovely cat, so well behaved.
You are a marvelous cat groomer God bless you
Thank you for your lovely comment and for watching my channel.
Such a good boy! Wish my elderly calico was that good. We have to use an organic sedative for her. I'm getting sleepy just watching him get combed. So glad I found your videos. You are gentle and soft-spoken and that helps reduce their stress.
Aww thank you so much for your comment. It means a lot. Keep working with your calico and one day you may find you don't need the organic sedative. Staying calm and softly spoken is the number one priority when working with fur babies. Any tension feeds through to the cats immediately.
Thank you so much for this super video!
Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and to comment. I hope it has given you some tips.
For dread maintenance; I have 2 American curls from Curl Essence in California. They are long hair siblings. However very different fur density. One has very long hair and seems to have an extra layer more than her sister. Her hair drags on the ground and dreads easily. She looks like she is wearing a movie star coat so her name is "Diva". I brush and comb her and remove her dread pretty effortlessly with my fingers spreading the new ones. I don't use scissors.The thicker ones I use a seam ripper. I never point it at the body of the cat but rather move it along side the shaft towards the ends and break up the dreads. If they are tangled across the skin I can cut the dread out with the razor part of the seem ripper. She rarely complains. If she does I stop and start again later. Her spit is sticky and seems to create the dreads. Her fur gets in wet food plate. She loves a supervised ramp in the yard in the morning and gets her fur wet grazing in the grass. Argh!
Her sister "Sheshe" gets a few dreads now and then but nothing like Divas. I recently acquired another American Curl. His name is "Leontopolis" and his fur is more like Sheshe. However he has large plumes of fur sticking out from his front arm pits that I have never seen on any cat before. Funny boy.
He's so calm. My long haired rescue hates having her belly and armpits touched. It's been nearly 2 years with my mobile groomer and we're slowly making improvements. So far she's had to go vets to be sedated and have a lion cut. We're hoping that we can do it at home with nutricalm to help her. I want to avoid sedation as she has a mild heart murmur.
When we first got her, she'd rip your skin if you even went near her with a brush, now she angry eats her lick-e-lix until she's had enough and swiped you.
I'm hoping I can Be able to fully brush her in time without too many issues.
thanks a lot
Brilliant
He's beautiful! He looks like my Siberian ginger tabby. My boy is shy, too. Has to hide his head. ❤️😺
This has been so relaxing to watch :D about to shave my cat butt and I am learning a lot :D
how do we prevent these cats from getting mats in the first place
Nice job
Love your info but what if your cat won't stay still to do it???
Hiya, it all comes down to handling your pusscat on a daily basis and getting them used to be handling. Many of my clients of course I see for the first time, so I don't know how they will behave.
It is a case of staying calm and extremely patient when you have a cat that won't stay still.
If you can get someone to help you, then all the better.
You never want to force the cat into position, it will never work!
It all comes down to encouraging them, lots of praise and just doing bits at a time. You can always come back tomorrow and do a bit more.
Slowly, over time, your cat will start to trust that nothing awful is going to happen and will sit for longer for you.
Hope this helps.
My little kitty is flufffy and his fur is super thin and fine, a very different texture to his… It’s so susceptible to grooming
Matts 😂
Did you say oatmeal spray, cause that’s not showing on your list?
Our cat is medium haired and we brush him twice a week but he still gets matts as he is a lazy shit😆 as he doesn't groom himself, I've now invested in grooming tools as if we are looking after a spoilt movie star, I guess we will have to groom him 4 times a week. Does anyone know if the matts will get less in the summer months due to his fur not being so thick🤔 Thanks for the informative video @Lovecatsgroomer❤️
What blade are you using please?
This is such a wonderful cat. 🐱 There is no way my cat would lay there that still for me to groom out the mats like that, so now what? What is the best way to groom a "Do not touch me THERE, EVER!!" loving but stubborn cat?
Hi Michelle, you are certainly not on your own there! It all comes down to you grooming just a little every single day and starting to touch those difficult areas for your cat. As long as you keep your grooming regime up daily and continue being brave in moving your hands over the difficult areas, your fur baby will eventually accept and trust you enough to groom all over.
It all comes down to your own perseverance in grooming daily, even if it is just a few minutes a day and then slowly increasing the time.
I have had many an aggressive cat come round after me visiting regularly and with Mum also grooming daily in between my visits.
Just keep at it - you will be amazed one day when your pusscat suddenly just lets you do a groom everywhere.
EXACTLY, Michelle...
Where are you based? My cat desperately needs grooming, lots of mats and she won't let me touch her!
Where did you get those sleeves? Thank you. I'm a groomer too and I would love to know or to get those sleeves and to help the kitties. 😊 Thanks
Hi there, and thanks for watching my channel.
The company are actually called ARM CHAPS and are based in the US. You can send them your arm measurements and they make them to fit. Mine have lasted me for years and have protected me from many attacks!
Here is their URL armchaps.com/
Hello! I'm a dog groomer and planning on tackling a friend's kitten this weekend. He needs a belly clip for sure, very matted.
Did simba have a bath and blow dry before all this?
How roughly much do you charge for a belly clip and brush out
Wat kind of cat is that? Wat breed
I believe she is a Maine Coon cross, but I don't know what with as she was rescued.
It makes me so sad to see such a lovely cat in such a state. When he looked at the camera it really choked me up. I wish people just didn’t get long haired cats if they can’t keep up with their maintenance😔 On a positive note, I had no idea you could tease small knots like that. Very helpful.
I’m just adding another comment to this after watching further. Super interesting to learn your view on being gentle due to having long hair yourself. I also have long hair. I’ve had hair down to my waist all my life and I sympathise greatly with cats because of this, especially when I’m merely patting or gently brushing my cats which I do daily for hours at a time because we all enjoy it so much.
I’m so enjoying your content! Love love love Simba. Sad also to learn he goes outdoors with having seizures and a heart condition but there you go. He’s just gorgeous. What a good boy❤️
Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and to comment also. Unfortunately many people take longhaired cats on because they look so adorable but have no idea they need to groom them until it's too late and they become matted.
I'm glad you learnt about teasing small knots away - that is the whole reason why I started this channel. If just one person learns something to help their cats, then my efforts have paid off.
Thank you for sharing that with me.
@@LoveCatsGroomer I have had 4 cats with long coats never had a problem with matting as I brushed them but my latest cat hates being brushed even in fits and starts, she is not a lap cat either. She has gotten a few mats as a result which I will need to clip now. I wish people would not assume matted cats are due to neglect, sometimes they are just impossible to groom .
Some of us get longhaired cats without really looking to do so. All of my cats are rescues, either from feral or owners who rehomed them. Case in point, Rebel, a grey fluffy barn kitten we got free with a load of hay. Strangely, for s random bred cat, his fur is soft as cashmere and of a texture that mats horribly. We have the extra problem of taming him enough to tolerate us and keeping him from getting bound up in mats. I recently bought s grooming set with clippers, and I'm here on the channel to learn proper technique and tips. We have three other longhaired cats, one quite elderly whom I don't want to subject to the stress of a vet visit and sedation.
I was adopted by a long haired cat. I had a long haired cat and absolutely did NOT want another. But she showed up at my house emaciated and pregnant. Should I just left her like that because I didn't want a long haired cat? She absolutely HATES being brushed... I'm here trying to learn how
@@LoveCatsGroomer I'm late in my reply to you but after a reply to my comment today I realise that I didn't word my response to your video well at all and I want to correct that. What I meant to say was that it saddens me when it is a case of people that purely want a cat for it's looks, they don't take the care to look into the upkeep required for the breed and so on versus all of the examples that have been given in the replies to my comments such as cats that simply hate being brushed and those which are feral and rehomed cats.
It may be of interest to know that I myself have now become the owner of a cat that no longer enjoys having his tummy or flanks groomed. This is leading to very stressful moments for me when I do brush and comb him, and actually makes me want to leave it rather than stress him which only exacerbates the issue, so I do sympathise! I just wasn't clear in my original comment.
I didn't mean to offend anyone. We are all clearly here to be educated by someone that I personally think has the most effective, least stressful technique I've seen online.
Many thanks for sharing your expertise.
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I've got an arthritic 19 year-old cat with some serious pelts, would you recommend vets or groomers as my family is worried about having such an old cat under anesthetic?
I would defo say groomers. That's the whole reason I began grooming so as to encourage people to groom their cats to enable them from getting pelts in the first place. However, if it had already happened, then some can be combed and teased away but if they are so tight to the skin tou cannot get a Comb behind the pelts, then clipping is required.
I hate putting any animal under anaesthetic unless absolutely necessary for surgical reasons.
Take your time and try to tease the pelts away slowly. You don't have to do it all in one session.
Or find yourself a groomer who can clip them away for you. With your pusscat being arthritic, he may prefer the clippers as it will be quicker for him.
Good luck.
Do you drug the cats before doing this because this feline is extraordinarily chill?
That cat is definitely drugged.
I NEVER sedate cats. That is the whole reason I began cat grooming as my local vets would put them under anaesthetic to clip them and I thought that this was too harsh.
I am trained in animal reiki and communication so I use my energy to calm any cat that arrives on my grooming table.
It usually works on the anxious owners too!!
Nope! Animal reiki and a calm loving energy.