How Often to Groom Your Cat

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am Caroline, and I am going to demonstrate on how to care for your cat, long, medium, or short. And contrary to a lot people’s beliefs, your long haired cats shed the least, or they get it on your clothes the least, because the long hair collects the hair that they’re losing. Your short-haireds and your medium-haired are the ones that get hair all over you. And you should, you really should comb your cat frequently to get that dead hair out. Now, she hasn’t been taken care of, and I will just show you. She has not been really combed and groomed, and she doesn’t get hair all over you, because it’s all in here in mats. That’s how they get their mats. You know, now if she were a slick-haired cat, I could pick her up and she would have hair all over me, because there is nothing there to get, to collect the hair. You know when they shed; everything sheds, even we do. If that was a slick-haired or medium-haired cat, there would be hair all over me, because she hasn’t been combed. And you really need to do it; not every day, and I do not think that’s possible for most people, you know. But if you can’t do it yourself, take her to a decent groomer, somebody you know is going to be good to her. And some of them, a lot them will just comb them out for you, you don’t have to have them bathed and go into any big expenses. But, like under their arms, see, that’s starting to tangle. That is there, so we’re going to split that one up. I know it. And if it won’t, see how that’s…turn it to those big teeth. There. But that’s not too bad, except for that mat, for the hair that is coming out of this cat, because she has long hair. And I had a medium length haired cat, and he kept hair all over me. But what you comb out is what would make a big mat, you know, and if you never do it, then the groomer’s got to comb it out. And most of the cats are not really real well behaved at a groomer’s because they are scared, and you can’t trick them like you can dogs. You know, they’re just a little bit slyer. So, I think prevention is better than taking them to the groomer or the vet to groom, and just freaking them out, say every six months or so. But, you don’t have to do it every night, or even you know, not even once a week. Most people are too busy, but when you do it make it count, like under the chin and under here. Just real quick and inside the hind legs there. And you do not have to make a big thing of it, or get him out on the table. A lot of people, I have seen them just lay the cats in their laps, and their cats are so, so well-behaved. But you do have to do it, so I would say the short and slick-haireds, medium length, they have more hair all over you, but they do not mat up. And the long haired ones, they don’t get as much hair all over you, but they’ll mat."