Poor Groucho

[james_davis_nicoll]

My poor cat Groucho becomes extra shaggy in the winter and as a result has endless trouble with snarls in his coat. And he hates having them combed or trimmed out. Oh, well. Fur's twirled problems.

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[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Barry is a very fluffy cat... and he seems to be in pre-kidney failure. So he can't groom himself properly anymore, resulting in dandruff, tangles, and fur that is both dry and oily at different levels. :(

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

:(

[felila.livejournal.com]

Does Barry accept brushing? Makali'i, my fluffy part-Persian, loves the brush. Several times a day she jumps onto my bed and whines until I stop work and brush her.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I brush him when he's curled up next to me (which admittedly is very often), but I can't get the tangles out without a furminator or similar, and he doesn't like those.

His fur is about 1.5 inches long right now; it was longer but I have a groomer coming by every four months now. (He did not like the bath, and he did not tolerate the hair dryer, so he was moist and smelled of shampoo for a couple of days.)

[felila.livejournal.com]

Makali'i had a nasty attack of flea eczema a year ago. Her coat was tangled, dirty, and interspersed with bloody raw patches and scabs. (She would NOT let me apply flea meds; I finally managed to dose her, sneaking up on her while she was eating.) I managed to clear all that up, eventually, but it was a long process. It started with a small flea comb, over which I had more control than I did over the brush. I could comb lightly over scabs and avoid raw patches. Perhaps Barry would tolerate flea-comb detangling.