We have 2 cats that had some good sized mats in their fur. So, googling around I see the suggestion to work into it olive oil with the claim that it removes mats in short order. Needless to say, I was quite skeptical, but tried it on cat #1 and it was gone in 24 hours. So, proceeded to cat #2 with the same result. Amazing how well that works.
Miracle Cat De-matting Trick
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An old remedy for human hair tangles and chewing gum in the hair as well.
...when you wash your cats with Kerosene and then light your pipe, you cats are guaranteed to go matt-free fot a fairly long time :D For a while you may even be able to brag your cats are of the rare Hairless Breed :D
our longhair cat (norwegian forest cat) loves to get into the fir trees and straddle branches (he likes to catch and eat squirrels, the other cat gets rabbits) and fairly regularly gets pitchy. Coconut oil does the trick for pitch--works like magic to get it off your cars, too.
Yeah, I wouldn't put kerosene on any living thing. With olive oil. the cat actually removes the mat by grooming the area after it's applied.
Have heard that, too. Prior to the olive oil try with cat #2's first mat we removed, tried baby oil and combed it out. But its next mat was pretty sizable and knowing how well the trick worked on cat #1, went that route.
When a child, I was put it on myself. Helped instantly.
Noone was lighting a pipe at the moment, thankfully.
Noone was lighting a pipe at the moment, thankfully.
Excellent information to know. I have used it on horses tails and mane but it never occurred to me to use it on my cats.
That's helpful, the olive oil. Kerosene is toxic more or less, and flammable.
We have two rescues that grew up into pretty much Maine Coons. We clip off the mats, but if the cats are resistant or the mats are close to the skin, the olive oil would do the trick.
I used to detangle my younger sister's hair which got incredibly tangled. Neither parent had quite the patience or dexterity to do that painlessly, but I could hold the hair close to the scalp and keep the tugging only on the tangle. Mama said I should be a surgeon. No, but I did get my kid sister's hair unsnarled. I also did braids. But that was the extent of my hair styling career.
We have two rescues that grew up into pretty much Maine Coons. We clip off the mats, but if the cats are resistant or the mats are close to the skin, the olive oil would do the trick.
I used to detangle my younger sister's hair which got incredibly tangled. Neither parent had quite the patience or dexterity to do that painlessly, but I could hold the hair close to the scalp and keep the tugging only on the tangle. Mama said I should be a surgeon. No, but I did get my kid sister's hair unsnarled. I also did braids. But that was the extent of my hair styling career.
I thought it said de-mattering... and I thought to myself, wow... what a PC term. 
This reminds me of the old hound we adopted a few years back.
Her previous adopted owners (who gave her back to the shelter) bathed her in garlic butter because that was supposed to, I don't know, relieve dry skin? Imagine stinky hound smell mixed with garlic butter?
The olive oil trick is actually one I've heard of. We've got a fat cat who can't reach back to clear her hair mats and it's always a howling clawing biting chaotic nightmare to cut them out, maybe we'll give it a try.
Her previous adopted owners (who gave her back to the shelter) bathed her in garlic butter because that was supposed to, I don't know, relieve dry skin? Imagine stinky hound smell mixed with garlic butter?
The olive oil trick is actually one I've heard of. We've got a fat cat who can't reach back to clear her hair mats and it's always a howling clawing biting chaotic nightmare to cut them out, maybe we'll give it a try.
If it can't reach its mats to groom them out after the oil application, you may have to then comb it out, though I'd wait 24 hours to do it in order to give the oil some time to soften things up.
It is amazing the number of times we are helping a cat and they decide to unleash to murder mittens on us.
Helping cats is tricky. They are not so docile as they can choose to be. They are on constant alert not to be eaten, even by their owners. Trust is defined only to a point. Which, given the vagaries of human nature, is probably insightful.
At one of our vets years ago, there was a vet tech named Tabitha who also worked with horses. She never explained anything, but apparently had mastered keeping her mind in a certain place, and thus emitting bodily chemicals that conveyed this to animals.
Our cat, mostly sweet natured, went into full battle mode when having her claws trimmed, screaming and assuming the face of an enraged devil, so you could hear her outside the building.
But not with Tabitha. Who sat down in the waiting area, put the cat on her lap, and with the serenity of a Buddhist monk, trimmed the nails without the slightest protest from the cat.
My jaw hit the floor. She handed the cat back. I quietly said, "That is a gift." And Tabitha said, "I know."
At one of our vets years ago, there was a vet tech named Tabitha who also worked with horses. She never explained anything, but apparently had mastered keeping her mind in a certain place, and thus emitting bodily chemicals that conveyed this to animals.
Our cat, mostly sweet natured, went into full battle mode when having her claws trimmed, screaming and assuming the face of an enraged devil, so you could hear her outside the building.
But not with Tabitha. Who sat down in the waiting area, put the cat on her lap, and with the serenity of a Buddhist monk, trimmed the nails without the slightest protest from the cat.
My jaw hit the floor. She handed the cat back. I quietly said, "That is a gift." And Tabitha said, "I know."