I need help with grooming.

[Sevaede]

I agree with Gary, or you can also ask our experienced groomer, Jen/Jenluckenbach.

Ah, okay. Well, he doesn't mat TOO bad, he just gets these little penny sized tufts. I just cut them out, usually, but right now he has one that is really close to his skin and I don't want to hurt him. My husband brushes him regularly but sometimes he just gets those little fur knots. He has this tendency to just... lay wherever he wants which is usually in something whether it be the shower, across a plate of wet food, in the litter box, etc. He cleans himself more than any other cat that I've had yet he still manages to be the messiest. Sometimes I wonder if he runs himself down and just plops! He's great, though.

[jenluckenbach]

Cat skin cuts EXTREMELY easily. Please be ultra careful (I know, I know, everyone says they are careful, but the number of kitties that have been attempted at home and then come to my grooming shop with gashes tells me otherwise)

Lizzie was shaved with a #10 blade. The safest blade and the one that gives the best final look. MANY people ask if we can shave them without really SHAVING them (meaning leave more hair on that a #10 blade) and the answer is .... "It is not advisable." Cat hair is hard to work with. Very fine and the static electricity causes the hair to look choppy when done with a longer blade. AND the longer blades are more DANGEROUS. They have sharp points that can clip cat skin like a hot knife through butter. AND any time there is a mat, the skin is vulnerable and it is often pulled up into the mat. The reason I ramble..........if you go to the groomers let them do it their way. It is for the cat's own good. (Just make sure they are experienced with cats)

Your kitty will probably enjoy a lion clip, most cats do.

[Sevaede]

Cat skin cuts EXTREMELY easily. Please be ultra careful (I know, I know, everyone says they are careful, but the number of kitties that have been attempted at home and then come to my grooming shop with gashes tells me otherwise)

Lizzie was shaved with a #10 blade. The safest blade and the one that gives the best final look. MANY people ask if we can shave them without really SHAVING them (meaning leave more hair on that a #10 blade) and the answer is .... "It is not advisable." Cat hair is hard to work with. Very fine and the static electricity causes the hair to look choppy when done with a longer blade. AND the longer blades are more DANGEROUS. They have sharp points that can clip cat skin like a hot knife through butter. AND any time there is a mat, the skin is vulnerable and it is often pulled up into the mat. The reason I ramble..........if you go to the groomers let them do it their way. It is for the cat's own good. (Just make sure they are experienced with cats)

Your kitty will probably enjoy a lion clip, most cats do.

Ah, okay. Thank you very much!

So my best bet is to go to a groomer until I learn a bit more? I can do that! Heh. The mat on his leg is tiny but it worries me being there. Also, is there anything I can do to calm him before he goes to the groomer? Soni is very sweet and calm with everybody but I don't want him to have some random freak out. (He never has before. He would walk right up to (and try and love on!) a complete stranger if I'd let him.)