Can you over furminate a cat

If there were no guard hairs to start with in those spots, you may want to call the vet now. Okay now I feel like a super bad mommy. I just wanted my baby to not be so covered in flying hairs! Anyway, Jen oddly enough it is between her shoulder blades where her little baldy spot is too. She doesn't have any balding anywhere else really, just there.

I'll keep and eye and if it doesn't grow back soon I'll take her to the vet. Is there anything I can supplement her food with that will help her hair grow faster or less brittle? I was really impressed with the job the furminator did on all the other quadripeds though. Conrad really looks like a zillion bucks without a bunch of dead undercoat hairs in various states of shed all over him and Marlowe looks positively shiny.

I think the moral of the story is moderation with the furminator. That's easy to do with the dogs because, while they don't hate it, they do get bored of sitting there after a couple minutes and walk away. Kay absolutely loves to be groomed so it was easy to just brush and brush and brush until whoops I brushed too much. Uhm, I think in order to really help we need pics of the bald cat.

I thought the Zoom Groom worked good! I usually only get half that out, but I try to get at the cats with it every month or so. Or at least whenever they start walking around surrounded by an "aura" or drifting fur LOL! When they have that look like Pig Pen from the Peanuts cartoons I know it's time to find the Zoom Groom Lucy thinks it also makes a great toy. Well, Kay is just unreal with the hair. I got that same amount of hair off my 85 lb. I originally went out and got the furminator because the night before I was just sitting around petting her and like huge chunks of undercoat were coming off in my hands like a husky blowing coat!

And I thought, this is just ridiculous, this cat needs a hair intervention immediately. But maybe with less enthusiasm next time. She looks pretty pleased though, doesn't she? All of that fur came out of that cat?! That's crazy. And yes, she does look pretty pleased with herself haha. Oh, now that's one of the funniest things I've seen in a few days. I used to use a small undercoat rake and a "greyhound" comb on my long haired cat. Then I'd finish him with a very soft slicker brush.

It seems to depend on the type of undercoat whether you get good results with the furminator. Cat owner behavior, however, could result in negative results. Out of all of the methods I've tried, the furminator easily gets more hair off of the cat. Best answer: We have five cats long story, don't ask two Burmese with very fine hair and three Heinz 57 with short but coarser fur. All love being brushed and we find that regular brushing cuts down on the number of hairballs we get from their self-grooming.

We use the Furminator and also a wire bristle brush. They like either one. The Furminator does a really good job and has never caused any skin problems. The model of Furminator we use is self-cleaning with a button that ejects the hair removed and is well worth the few extra dollars. Best answer: We have two shorthair cats and the Furminator works really well on both - better than slicker brushes and like a zillion times better than the Zoom Groom.

It gets amazing amounts of undercoat out. Occasionally I'll accidentally pull slightly too hard, but it's a hair-pulling thing rather than a skin-scraping thing and the offended party will let me know immediately - no actual damage. I don't think it even gets down to the skin. I also second the sticky lint roller; it's surprisingly good for getting the loose hairs that were going to get left on your couch anyway, as well as for post-furminator cleanup, and it doesn't pull on still-rooted fur.

Best answer: Our recently passed short hair had a serious undercoat, and we found the Furminator was the only way we could keep her shedding under control. The only skin issue we saw was that she had a bit of dandruff near her tail, but the vet told us that it was because she was a big girl who might not be able to groom there as effectively. She hated to be brushed regardless of what we used, so we figured we might as well be as effective as possible.

Our long hair loves to be brushed, but her hair is so fine that the Furminator doesn't do much - so we use the Zoom Groom on her. Purring galore! Also, she prefers it. Best answer: Any brush can be bad for the cat's skin if you brush too hard to too long. I have two short-haired cats who shed more than I would have ever have thought possible.

My experience is that to control the shedding, I really need to use two brushes: a furminator knock-off for the undercoat, and a shedding brush for the top coat. Because they shed tons of both. One of the cats loves being brushed so much that she will continue rolling about in bliss until she has bald patches, so I have to pay attention.

But I've never noticed any skin damage. You shouldn't be digging in. The other one doesn't liked being brushed much, whatever brush is being used.

Best answer: When I had a cat I had one and she loved it and holy crap was it effective. I wasn't happy at all with the Furminator - far too easy to over groom and make a thin spot for me. Ymmv of course posted by wotsac at AM on June 9, [ 1 favorite ]. Best answer: My short-haired kitty hasn't had any skin problems from the furminator.

So I get like one tolerated brushing a week - and it's much more effective with the furminator than with the other kinds. I would recommend getting the "for small animals" size; I find it is much easier to control the pressure with the smaller brush.

Best answer: Adding on that the furminator is great. It can irritate your cat's skin so its more of a few strokes every day kind of deal. Imagine you pulled a metal comb over your skin. Over and over would start to irritate. It's the same deal for them. My cats love it though. Coat Length All Short hair Long hair. Use daily for minutes each session. View Product. Use as often as needed, including daily, on dry hair.

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