Thread: Stud tail... Not so studly...

It can be a nightmare can't it & it looks & feels awful,sometimes a light powder into that area really getting to the bottom fur & a good hard slicker or brush the wrong way before going the right way can help lift it,I use the grooming powder because it is finer but if ordinary powder better going for baby because that is a lot finer where the others seem harsher & can clog it more,if it is full wash it needs chances are you will have to do it a couple of times you need to use a degreaser first if you have one,I use fast orange has the pumice effect & then shampoo it,one hint a judge gave me at a show when I had nearly gone into dispair with stud tail,shampoo with fairy liquid,works wonders,the only thing is when you "attack"that area it can obviously stimulate the stud tail more thats why if you have a cat that has it bad you might find that the first time you help it slightly but hence another wash could be needed or in the case of my nightmare five times later & still......! If he hadn't been going to a show I would have given up at the "thats better"stage though.Its another thing that can vary in our cats though,one of mine never had it two only slightly & a bit of powder lifted it & another has been awful,daughters black MC was so bad that when she combed his tail I got a panic phone call to say she had pulled out a great clump of fur & now had a big bald sore area,emailed picture confirmed what I thought his stud tail was so thick with grease it had just all come away,luckily he had so much coat it didn't show too badly unless his tail was really flying full mast. Good luck...x

When Pomeroy "retired" to us he had a patch of stud tail which became slightly infected.
We found that bathing it in diluted HibiScrub helped clear it up.

Fast orange and fairy liquid. Is fast orange like orange power cleaner? And is fairy liquid dish washing liquid? (just trying to think of an equivalent here in Australia).

We don't show our cats. So I found the best for us is an electric razor. We would shave the spot to peachfuzz. It would grow back all nice and soft. For us it only came back once every 2 years.

Originally Posted by Abbey

Fast orange and fairy liquid. Is fast orange like orange power cleaner? And is fairy liquid dish washing liquid? (just trying to think of an equivalent here in Australia).

Yep Fairy Liquid is the dish washing liquid but Fast Orange is a hand cleaner like car mechanics use to get the deep grease out of their hands,worth trying washing up liquid first though put it on dry tail work it in well then wash off & repeat a couple of times with tail wet,the last time don't stimulate that area too much.

What is stud tail?

Not sure if I want to show him or not so I won't resort to the razor just yet

Oh awesome, I'll give the dish washing liquid a go, then the hand degreaser. Hopefully that works

Stud tail is when the glands at the base of the tail produce sebum (like feline acne) and it makes a patch really oily/greasy. All the hair gets greasy and in some cases it can cause blackheads, hairloss and infection. It's not nice.

Originally Posted by Abbey

Not sure if I want to show him or not so I won't resort to the razor just yet

Oh awesome, I'll give the dish washing liquid a go, then the hand degreaser. Hopefully that works

Stud tail is when the glands at the base of the tail produce sebum (like feline acne) and it makes a patch really oily/greasy. All the hair gets greasy and in some cases it can cause blackheads, hairloss and infection. It's not nice.

If you do have to resort to the hand cleaner then put that on first while the tail is dry give it a few minutes to start working then put the washing up liquid on leave another few minutes then off you go as before,agree would not be good to shave that area if chances are you would like to show & at least neuters do grow out of it although it has taken Welly until nearly four,touch wood I haven't seen it on him the last couple of months,watch this space...