Cat Grooming: Tools for Coat Care

Video Transcript

"Let's look at some tools for taking care of your cat's coat. We'll start with some of the basic ones that you probably are most aware of, a brush that looks very much like a hairbrush that you or I may use. You can see how it traps all of the hairs in the bristles and it's actually very smooth on the cat's body so it doesn't irritate their skin, or a very sensitive cat will probably tolerate this better than say this other side where the teeth of this brush are made of metal, and although they have plastic coated ends they are going to feel a little bit more invasive to a cat who has a very sensitive skin or hair coat. This is a great tool, however, to get through that long fur of a long haired cat. Another type of a tool is called a rake. This has thicker little teeth and more rounded ends so it's not quite as pointy as the last brush that I showed you, but it is also great for getting through that long hair and really combing through. This is called a shedding blade. It actually can come apart into a long piece of a blade here like this so you can actually go along the cat in this sort of a motion, and these little teeth will help to get any dead hair out of the cat's coat that's no longer attached but it might be stuck inside the healthy hair of the cat. So this is great for a cat whose shedding, and then there are a couple of other brushes that are similar in nature. They have angled teeth so that they help to get into the cat's coat a little further. And then the last thing that I wanted to show you is kind of a, it's a great little tool for cat's who don't like to be groomed at all and it's a little mitt that you can wear that has soft rubber teeth on this side, and then it has just sort of a smooth, almost a static, pad on the back. So you can use it either way to just get your cat used to having its coat handled, and this is something that's fun for both the cat and the human."