Post by WillowTheWhisp on May 11, 2009 17:25:56 GMT
We have a long haired cat who is in the process of moulting. His fur becomes very tangled when the loose hair doesn't fully come out and it was sticking out wildly in irregular tufts so that he was looking like he'd stuck his tail in a power socket.
Yesterday our eldest daughter and I thought he needed a bit of help so we decided it was time to groom him. First gentle brushing with a grooming brush brough purrs of happiness but did very little to remove the matted clumps of tangled fur.
Second attempt to comb through with 'afro comb' produced cat doing a runner through the cat flap with fur looking no better.
Third attempt involved daughter getting a firm lock on back end of cat whilst I combed front end, then holding onto front end whilst I combed back end. The result was cat clawing into chair arm, daughter's jumper and my finger!
After staunching the flow of blood from the aforementioned finger, inspecting holes in chair arm and daughter's jumper - latter repairable, former probably not - we made attempt number 4.
Attempt four involved two daughters each holding down two legs of cat, thus putting claws out of action, whilst I proceeded to groom cat.
By this time we had half filled a waste bin with the loose cat fluff.
When daughters let go of cat, cat lept into the air and then proceeded to attack the 'strange cat' in the waste bin. Short haired cat looked at him with disdainful expression.
Finally when the cat won the battle of the fluff and the said fluff was all over the front room carpet I began to wonder why we hadn't done this outside!
I was nursing my wounded finger (blood seeping through the elastoplast)and wondering if the cat would ever speak to me again when he came and jumped up onto my knee, curled round, settled down and began purring contentedly as if none of this had ever happened.
This morning my finger still hurts, there is still a hole in the chair arm and fluff all over the carpet which the vacuum cleaner seems to be having no effect on whatsoever.
The cat is happy as Larry though. ;D
Yesterday our eldest daughter and I thought he needed a bit of help so we decided it was time to groom him. First gentle brushing with a grooming brush brough purrs of happiness but did very little to remove the matted clumps of tangled fur.
Second attempt to comb through with 'afro comb' produced cat doing a runner through the cat flap with fur looking no better.
Third attempt involved daughter getting a firm lock on back end of cat whilst I combed front end, then holding onto front end whilst I combed back end. The result was cat clawing into chair arm, daughter's jumper and my finger!
After staunching the flow of blood from the aforementioned finger, inspecting holes in chair arm and daughter's jumper - latter repairable, former probably not - we made attempt number 4.
Attempt four involved two daughters each holding down two legs of cat, thus putting claws out of action, whilst I proceeded to groom cat.
By this time we had half filled a waste bin with the loose cat fluff.
When daughters let go of cat, cat lept into the air and then proceeded to attack the 'strange cat' in the waste bin. Short haired cat looked at him with disdainful expression.
Finally when the cat won the battle of the fluff and the said fluff was all over the front room carpet I began to wonder why we hadn't done this outside!
I was nursing my wounded finger (blood seeping through the elastoplast)and wondering if the cat would ever speak to me again when he came and jumped up onto my knee, curled round, settled down and began purring contentedly as if none of this had ever happened.
This morning my finger still hurts, there is still a hole in the chair arm and fluff all over the carpet which the vacuum cleaner seems to be having no effect on whatsoever.
The cat is happy as Larry though. ;D
I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck