On 2004-12-28, dgk penned:
I just love a good attention grabbing subject. But it is a semi-serious
situation. I haven't had any problems with any of my cats needing anything
more than an occasional brushing. Even my longhair Nipsy hardly sheds and
barely needs to be brushed.

But sick little Jackie (IBD with chronic diarrhea) has developed clumpy
areas on just one side of her butt. A closer examination (I must love her
very much) reveals that the hair is matted and cannot be combed out. So I
tried cutting some of them away and accidently cut a bit of her skin. I
simply can't tell where the hair leaves off and the skin begins.

I called the vet but the normal three vet practice is down to one vet
because of the holidays and this is hardly an emergency. They gave me the
name of a pet grooming place (some stuffy sounding place that must mangle
poodles) that will do it, undoubtedly for some insane fee. She'll likely
come back in curlers. They haven't even returned my call from yesterday.

Do folks just get an electric clipper and shave that part off? She is not
going to sit still for this I can reasonably assume.

I have no experience with this, but maybe if you can't grab a vet, you could
get a groomer to work on it? They surely have experience with this sort of
thing.

--
monique, who is sometimes allowed to pet Oscar, a grey^H^H^H^Hblue-cream DLH
with an attitude!