Thread: Coat matting
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Old September 4th 13, 08:46 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Bill Graham
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Mack A. Damia wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:26:02 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

reilloc wrote:
Advise, please: my long-haired cat, who's got a personality more
suspicious than a mother/father-in-law (take your choice) and a hair
trigger when it comes to any sudden noise (and when the trigger
trips the creature turns into a buzz saw that must get away) has
significant matting of his coat. By these things, I'm intending to
communicate that it's hard to hold him down for long and when you
do, if there's any unexpected sound from anywhere in or around the
house, he'll start to take off and go through you to get away. So,
I'm wanting to, maybe, sedate him a little--or a lot, if that's
what it takes, since he's clawed furrows through my arms before--so
I can cut this matting out, brush him and start fresh.

Any suggestions as to how to approach this?

Thanks,

LNC


We got a long haired cat from my music teacher who had a hazelnut
farm, and never let the cat inside, because her husband was allergic
to it. It wass a small female with very matted hair, and a very
nasty personality. After a few months, my wife took an electric
clipoper to her, and cut all the mats out. Much to her surprise, the
cat stood still for this. Well, her personality changed completely.
She bacame the happiest cat in the house, and asfter her hair grew
back in, it never matted again! We still can't understand it.....


Long-hairs are very unhappy with matted hair; I guess they don't feel
clean. You should have seen the state of the Himalayan I picked up.
Feces in the matted hair. He became a wonderful cat with a great
personality. He would jump up onto the kitchen counter and talk to
me. When he got the final urethral blockage that killed him, I cried
like a baby. Sir Percy Cat.


Yes. I know what you mean. I cried when my B-K doies, too. I found him in a
Burger King parking lot when he was about one year old. He had a wonderful,
gregarious personality. He knew all the neighvbors and would sneak into
their houses in the middle of the night if they left a window open like four
inches or more, and ve there waiting for them when they got up in the
morning. Even the dogs in the neighborhood were his friends. Somehow, he got
into some weed killer, and died when he was 7-1/2 years old. So, I only knew
him for 6-1/2 yearws. But I fell in love with him right away, and I still
cry when I think of him.
Exactly one month after B-K died, a strange dog that I had never seen before
came sniffing down the block, and came up onto my front porch. He looked
through the open door at me, (It was a warm sunny day) asnd much to my
surprise, he came in the house. After eyening me to make sure I wasn't
hostile to him, he proceeded to search all over my house. Then he went back
outsied to the front doormat, (which was B-K's favorite sleeping spot) and
lay down for about 10 minutes. Then he got up and left, and I have never
seen him again. I was amazed that he could track B-K back to his home one
month after he died. Dogs have truely wonderful noses.
I will never forget that cat. He was the light of my life.....