Bathing Long Haired & Curly Haired Cats

Cats are very clean animals. They constantly groom themselves by licking their fur to remove dirt but some cats hair is just too long and too thick to thoroughly get clean. This is why we groom cats ourselves in addition to them grooming themselves. It helps with allergies by removing loose hair and dander and makes their coat shine as well. This is also a good way to help prevent long haired cats from regurgitating hair balls that have collected in their stomachs from excess hair swallowed due to grooming themselves.

In this free video series Carolyn Haynie, our expert, will give you tips and techniques for grooming your long haired cat and keeping its coat shiny and soft. She will not only explain when and how to bathe your cat but also many methods to grooming and step by step details on how to groom and how often. She will run through several scenarios that might occur that would require your cat be groomed and explain thoroughly how to fix the problem.

"Ah! The show ones, I will start them off about seven weeks and then once you do it, you do it every week for the show kitties, so I would do your pet kitten; I would start him off right at eight weeks so that they can get used to that you know. The older they are on anything; first time is harder the older they get. And then just up to you once a month, every six months. Some cats just aren’t dirty, but they get oily like this one and a lot of people think they are allergic to the cat and it is really; some people are I have seen that but mostly it is because the cat is not clean. You know and when the hair gets on you, like one little hair you usually cannot see it. You know it is on there and you are doing this but if you got a dirty cat and dirty litter or dusty litter that triggers a lot of allergies off. And I can’t do a dirty cat. You know at a grooming shop I am always going like that."