Any ideas for a long haired cat with furballs? she won`t let me brush her at all!?

Question

Have tried to brush her but she just hisses and runs off or scratches me to pieces, her coat is a absolute mess now, anyone any ideas please

Answer 1

buy food with hairball control

Answer 2

My cat is a semi long hair and is a right pain in the fundament in this respect. She has got a lot more used to handling because I have just persisted. For now you are going to have to get the vet to do it which means Madam is going to have a few bald patches. Then I think you should try just stroking her a lot, so that she gets used to being touched by you. From this you can go on to using other things such as fairly soft brushes.

There are no two ways about this: your cat is going to HAVE to get used to being brushed and combed. Mine still gets little lumps of matted fur but she lets me groom her, and she even lets me snip at the lumps carefully with scissors for a while. When she runs off, I let her go and then resume later.

This will be a long, difficult process for both you and your cat but it has to be done.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure you can get special food from the pet shop to prevent cats getting furballs, so give that a go. I also have a long haired cat that gets knotty and won't let you brush him. You can take the cat to the vet where they can sedated the cat and groom them or if you have a brave friend, get a pair of thick gardening gloves and one of you can hold the cat while the other one brushes it. Good Luck!!

Answer 4

I used to take my lengthy haired Siamese to the puppy groomer the position they could use hair clippers to shave alongside the exterior of the cat and reduce off the clump. you could do this your self (as I do now) and then, thereafter, get a particular puppy brush, not only those gloves to eliminate extra hair yet an genuinely brush that has the metallic searching prongs. they are genuinely a metallic plastic blend and could shrink static (and tangling) of your cat's hair. Then, when you sweep her each day, use the rubber, bump glove (do not recognize what they are talked about as yet they have rubber nodules everywhere in the bottom and a textile appropriate) and puppy your cat even as donning that. which will eliminate the extra hair that you purely pushed aside. a large number of circumstances, what makes lengthy haired kitties vomit is they are certainly brushed yet then not rubbed with the rubber glove that eliminates the loosened hair. P.S. i'd not ever use scissors considering kitty pores and skin might want to be by coincidence pinched and reduce less than the matting. Hair clippers only for a secure shave. wish that facilitates and solid success with Kitty!

Answer 5

I have a rescued cat (got her at age 15). She had never been cared for and was matted and bedraggled. She would bite me if I made any attempts at grooming.

So she went to a wonderful place here which just deals with cats. She gave them a hard time too (they had to muzzle her) She is 22 yrs. old now and so arthritic she never grooms herself.
The groomers say she is now very easy to handle and loves her bath.

She is a very elegant and beautiful kitty and feels she deserves her monthly or six-weekly trip to her beauty parlor and spa. Tortoiseshell catitude doncha know. No unlicensed amateurs (me) for her!

Anitra Frazier's book "The New Natural Cat" has a good chapter on grooming of cats. That was Ms. Frazier's profession before writing her book, the proceeds from which must be keeping her very well-off by now. It is an excellent book and one I feel every cat owner should have.

Answer 6

I have a cat with very very long hair, which frizzes in the cold and damp. I have been told that is their coat get too matted they can split the skin, jumping etc. Don't know if its true but its not something I wish to risk.

We use a combination of approaches,
Buy lots of styles of brushes, as our cat doesn't like being brushed, or more to the point having her hair pulled out. She likes a ladies brush best.

Keep lots of brushes handy, (if she is on me she will make a dive for it if she senses me reaching for a brush).

Knot splitters, make it easier. but fingers are very useful

Try to stop grooming before they make a bolt for it, try to get them used to a bit of grooming before a good lap sit.

Cat treats to distract them, knots being pulled, tummy getting full, is a difficult decision for a greedy cat. (you really need some one else to do the feeding)

Send them to the groomers as soon as they start to get their winter coat. and keep sending them.


We often keep a towel handy for when she come in from the rain, use it in a stroking manor, althought if they get used to it they can enjoy rougher drying (we stopped because our cat liked it so much that she deliberately kept getting wet.

Good luck (sorry never had a problem with hair balls, but all the above might help)

Answer 7

I used to have a long hair cat that wouldnt let me brush her. I finally took her to a cat groomer and she showed me what to do. Wrap her rear end and feet in a towel quite tight , and while you keep talking to her and soothing her, brush and comb bits at a time. My cat had really tender skin, and I held fur near the skin, and brushed out pieces at a time. Then when you get top end done, wrap the other end, and work away at the bottom. Sometimes if fur is really bad, its best to take to a groomer and have them cut fur balls out. Once this is done, its easier for you to brush your cat, and do it often.

Answer 8

I have a long haired cat too who is quite naughty and won't let you touch some times. But i find brushing really helps when he is eating. It gets rid of dead hair so they won't have to lick away as much.

Also iams sell these fur-ball control biscuits which (I think) is quite tasty, and it really helps with controling furballs.

Answer 9

Get her clipped off short so you can start again she might not let you groom her because it hurts. Either a sedated clip or get a professional cat groomer to do it. Once its cut short brush her every da so she gets used to it and so that no matts form. You can buy some good hairball control pastes and foods that should help her tummy too.

Answer 10

Hill's Science Diet dry food with hairball controll works well. My cat won't lick the paste kind that comes in a tube. He also likes Friskies treats that come in hairball control formula. As to the grooming, I am having problems with that also-I have fur all over my house and he only likes to be combed where he wants! I will have to take him to a groomer, I guess. The matting is worse on his chest where he can't reach.

Answer 11

Take her to a groomer that can sedate her and have her shaved down. Then feed her a good quality cat food that helps with hair balls. Then as her fur starts to grow out comb her. Brushing with mats pulls her fur out and is painful. Combing won't rip the hair out even after it gets long. Good luck.