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Guys, I'm sad today. I didn't realize until I went to feed him today but Smokey had been dragging mushy poop around the house with him all day, stuck to his fluffy tail. I only noticed when he came to me for his "dinner" (every meal is called dinner, since he knows the word). It explained why he was going around last night vomitting in various places. The poor guy had probably been trying to groom and getting more than his fair mouthful of fecal flavor. That and the constant stink following him would surely have been enough to sicken the little fella.

So I held him down in the tub and gave him a vicious scrub. At least I am sure that is how he felt about it. Now the poor guy is afraid of me. I have been wanting to find a cat groomer ever since I determined that my hair clippers are just not capable of making a dent in his dense fluffy coat. I called the vet I used to deal with in Belleville, and her assistant was not much help. I have put off going to the shop too long because of this and the floor and furniture cleaning I have done. I gave him no dinner today because I can't have him cycling the D. tract again while in his current state. I'm going to have to come up with a way to bathe him again and get him properly cleaned up. Tackle it when I get home tonight.

Any sage advice is welcome.
 
David Mary said:
Guys, I'm sad today. I didn't realize until I went to feed him today but Smokey had been dragging mushy poop around the house with him all day, stuck to his fluffy tail. I only noticed when he came to me for his "dinner" (every meal is called dinner, since he knows the word). It explained why he was going around last night vomitting in various places. The poor guy had probably been trying to groom and getting more than his fair mouthful of fecal flavor. That and the constant stink following him would surely have been enough to sicken the little fella.

So I held him down in the tub and gave him a vicious scrub. At least I am sure that is how he felt about it. Now the poor guy is afraid of me. I have been wanting to find a cat groomer ever since I determined that my hair clippers are just not capable of making a dent in his dense fluffy coat. I called the vet I used to deal with in Belleville, and her assistant was not much help. I have put off going to the shop too long because of this and the floor and furniture cleaning I have done. I gave him no dinner today because I can't have him cycling the D. tract again while in his current state. I'm going to have to come up with a way to bathe him again and get him properly cleaned up. Tackle it when I get home tonight.

Any sage advice is welcome.
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what ya feeding him? same cat food as always or did ya change brands or type? sure ya know but cats need meat and heavy protei diet. most of the cats I've had would eat anything i was eating, but none of the non meat stuff is any good for them.

new place maybe he's been licking things? wife's fatcat loves to lick plastic grocery store bags and it makes her sick. guessing there is a chemical in there that she likes the taste of......

beyond the obvious stuff...need a vet or a doctor. doctor knows biology and anatomy of mammals enough..isn't DocJekl DocJekl a doctor? couldn't hurt to see if he was willing to chat about what you're seeing and make suggestions? maybe that's not allowed I don't know doc rules and ethics.....

on long hairs. I had a long hair cat for 20 years before she died. I used to take her to a groomer to bathe and buzz her down. she loved being bathed and short haired. she could never groom below her coats to get to her skin. having someone else do it made it easier on me...I won't lie. I used to do it but I was using hair trimmers I had and couldn't hold her still long enough to get it all. so poor cat looked mangled all time. course I'm in florida and it's hot here so she didn't need to long coat and under coat to stay warm.

hope ya figure it out for your cat......
 
Thanks so much jbmonkey jbmonkey . Smokey eats purina salmon dinner pate exclusively. I don’t think he’s much of a licker from what I’ve seen. I really think it’s just a question of his progressively untamed coat causing issues.
 
He never had mats in five and a half years of owning him but in the last half a year I just haven’t been able to stop them and now I don’t have anything to brush them out with. People combs break on them, and his regular cat brushes don’t work either. I do have three different items coming though, two different styles of metal dematting brushes and an aluminum barber comb. Can’t wait for them to arrive.
 
The other problem is they are so tightly matted that it’s going to take a lot of force to tug them out. I really don’t want to hurt him. I feel pretty helpless with all this right now.
 
Wild Willie Wild Willie gave me some advice though over the phone just now on how to bathe him successfully. So I’m going to look into some of the things he said and report back. When I can make the time.
 
David Mary said:
Guys, I'm sad today. I didn't realize until I went to feed him today but Smokey had been dragging mushy poop around the house with him all day, stuck to his fluffy tail. I only noticed when he came to me for his "dinner" (every meal is called dinner, since he knows the word). It explained why he was going around last night vomitting in various places. The poor guy had probably been trying to groom and getting more than his fair mouthful of fecal flavor. That and the constant stink following him would surely have been enough to sicken the little fella.

So I held him down in the tub and gave him a vicious scrub. At least I am sure that is how he felt about it. Now the poor guy is afraid of me. I have been wanting to find a cat groomer ever since I determined that my hair clippers are just not capable of making a dent in his dense fluffy coat. I called the vet I used to deal with in Belleville, and her assistant was not much help. I have put off going to the shop too long because of this and the floor and furniture cleaning I have done. I gave him no dinner today because I can't have him cycling the D. tract again while in his current state. I'm going to have to come up with a way to bathe him again and get him properly cleaned up. Tackle it when I get home tonight.

Any sage advice is welcome.
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We have a long hair too. My wife keeps him brushed, which he equally loves & hates, but occasionally he has fur / dung issues. She keeps the southern exposure trimmed pretty close.
The matting can be held in check with regular brushings or cut out if it not to spread out.
Nancy uses this thing, she thinks it came from Wallyworld. “ShedMonster”
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Edit: one other thing she mentioned, in extreme cases, a vet will put the kitty under to do the grooming. Certainly not for every case. We don’t know much about pro groomers, but a reputable one must have a technique.
 
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Yes I have a similar one coming. Thank you GmpaJim GmpaJim . I wish I knew how to cut/trim his fur but so far I’m clueless/ineffective
 
David Mary said:
Yes I have a similar one coming. Thank you GmpaJim GmpaJim . I wish I knew how to cut/trim his fur but so far I’m clueless/ineffective
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My dad always just took the clippers to the back end of their cat. She was a long hair, and took pretty good care of herself until 14 or 15, after that she seemed to struggle a bit. She wound up making it to the ripe age of 20, so it couldn't have been that detrimental to her health.
 
I use one of these on fatcat.
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then regular cat wire type brush to get the loose stuff off.

it just pulls the dead hair out and won't let matting happen...once ya cut those spots out....

I have it from the long hair cat I had......never had a matting issue with her....

but ive always brushed cats daily. I dislike shedding hair everywhere
 
I suppose I can try again with the clippers.
 
here was my old long-haired cat. with fur and after groomed. she was a good cat. spent 20 years with me. I had dawgs as boy growing up....this cat was left with me when a girlfriend dumped me and moved out. came home to empty apartment and this cat still there......
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Wild Willie said:
Might help to have a good pair of scissors on hand too, especially for any matting that might be there.
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The vet said don’t use scissors because mats can be close enough to the skin and their skin is elastic so the likelihood of cutting their skin is too high.
 
David Mary said:
The vet said don’t use scissors because mats can be close enough to the skin and their skin is elastic so the likelihood of cutting their skin is too high.
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that's true. I had forgotten that. once long ago different girlfriend had this Himalayan cat and she didn't brush or groom it well.....and it got matted up real bad....and i was trying to unweave the matt and could see the skin was pulled real high inside the matted area. I used a buzzer with guard to slowly get some of it loose from the edge and it took forever and had to sit legs on either side of the cat and my rear holding it down so it couldn't pull loose and hold it that way while it was squirming and screaming......it was not fun.....that was 25 years ago or so. you're bringing up old cat memories for me.

anyways...I made her take it to a groomer couple times a year and trim it down and that was the start of my brush cat daily deal.....
 
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