Keeping Your Cat's Hair Untangled while Grooming

Series Summary

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 thick to get thoroughly clean. This is why we groom cats ourselves in addition to natural grooming strategies. It helps with allergies by removing loose hair and dander, and makes a cat’s coat shine as well. This is also a good way to help prevent cats from regurgitating hairballs that have collected in their stomachs from excess hair swallowed due to grooming themselves.

In this free cat grooming video series, our expert, will give you tips and techniques for keeping your cat clean and soft. She will not only explain when and how to bathe your cat, but also how to clip toenails, how to comb a cat, how to clip hair in sensitive areas, and techniques for giving an overall haircut.

Video Transcript

" My name is Carolyn and I'm going to demonstrate on how to bath a cats and this is his first time. There is a way to do it where you can trick and what I do and in kittens as well as cats is I fill a litter box full of warm water. You notice that this water is real slow running. If it was any faster it would just for some reason it scares cats to death but it makes you have to really rinse longer. So you put him in warm water and they like it. I don't know if you can see him or not. Since they are a oily animal you really have to scrub and this is Dawn dilute half and half and you have to use this on cats because they are very oily. Now you don't squeeze or ring them or it will leave mats you like go around and run it through there hair from there skin on out cause if you do it like you do your hair see you get mats and knots and really have to work it. Get it to lather up. You see he has never had a bath before so he is being pretty good. He still real warm from that water is why he is being good. Now if you starts getting cold he is going to act just like you think a cat would. He is not through being wean so his little face is dirty."