Re: chat messages

>when you pet her, she
> washes a paw or her shoulder vigorously the whole time
Auralie - when she does this I don't believe she's licking her paw to wash.
It is a similar reaction as when a dog pumps its leg when you scritch it in
the right place.  Just automatic.

> take fingernail scissors and cut out the mats.  She will hold still for
it -
I had an Angora cat for years who used to take off into the fields and get
all matted.  Usually managed to work them out.  As he got older, he still
went into the fields, but never got his fur matted anymore.  Anyway - I
stick to DSH these days (for non-cat people, that's the shorthand for
Domestic Short Hair)

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] chat messages


> In a message dated 05/29/2004 1:02:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Zemuly@aol.com writes:
>
> > Anybody  have a good trick for getting snarls out of long cat fur when
the
> > cat will  only rarely let herself be caught?
> >
>
> Wish I did.  My fat white cat doesn't wash herself any farther back than
her
> shoulders.  I used to think she was just too fat to reach, but I've
decided
> that she is just a natural slob.  Of the many cats I've had in my life,
this is
> the first really dirty one.  She gets real knots of matted hair on her
back,
> then goes out and rolls in the gravel drive and it is all gray and
> awful-looking.  Not pleasant to touch.  She loves to be petted, and when
you pet her, she
> washes a paw or her shoulder vigorously the whole time, but never any
farther
> back (including where she needs it most).  When it gets really bad, I just
> take fingernail scissors and cut out the mats.  She will hold still for
it -
> likes the attention.  Of course she looks stupid for a while with great
chunks cut
> out of her fur all across her back, but it grows back, and it isn't really
> any worse-looking than the dirty mats.
> Thank goodness the other three are as fastidious as cats should be.
> Auralie
>
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