Thread: Sticky cat

Originally Posted by Weasel

Our Ava has had a bit of an incident with a fly-paper.
Long story, but we shall just put up with he flies in future.
Anyway, she is VERY sticky. The vet is happy that the stuff is not toxic, but we can't get it off with cat shampoo, Fairy liquid or (in desperation) nail varnish remover.
She doesn't seem to care and is certainly not even attempting to groom it off, but one flank is pretty grim and I wondered if anyone has any suggestions other than shaving the fur off.

Whatever she does, wherever she goes, bits of stuff get stuck to her. Currently threads form curtain making, fluff from emptying the hoover (with help) and half the back garden...

Can you lift Ava's hair with a comb and trim off the tips of the hair that got into that fly paper? We have trimmed our MC very carefully with scissors to remove some hair that had become knotted and shortened the hair at the hind quarters to prevent a slightly messy stool or 'Cling-ons' from becoming a problem. That lovely hair will grow back out before you know it! I wouldn't think you would have to 'shave' all the hair off in that spot in order to get most of the stickiness off. Glad to hear that she isn't all that concerned about it. It sounds like she has a very mellow personality like our male Smokey MC. Sidney and Ava are both beautiful cats!

Clyde

She has had a haircut. It's growing back already!
Now she's lost a clump of tail fur due to getting slugs caught up in the fluff. Sidney is as bad, he came in stripes the other night with slug-trails!

Originally Posted by Weasel

She has had a haircut. It's growing back already! Now she's lost a clump of tail fur due to getting slugs caught up in the fluff. Sidney is as bad, he came in stripes the other night with slug-trails!

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Originally Posted by Henexin

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"She has had a haircut. It's growing back already!
Now she's lost a clump of tail fur due to getting slugs caught up in the fluff. Sidney is as bad, he came in stripes the other night with slug-trails!"


Hello Weasel,

Wow, your Coons really do get into 'stuff'!! I let Smokey go outdoors in his walking jacket and on a retractable 20' leash. That way, I can keep him out of the stickers and other stuff that would love to entangle in his long fine hair. He has never minded the jacket or leash at all. He is a 'City Cat' still even though he has lived in the foothills of Central California for over 6 years now. He wouldn't know how to avoid being eaten or carried off by Great Horned Owls or many other predators that are all around us. Simon, our Blue Point, on the other hand is also a 15 pound cat and much more country savvy, stays very close to me when I let him go outside - in the daytime. Since we do have large Great Horned Owls, Golden Eagles, Hawks, and many ground predators just out of sight for the most part, I guard him for the 1/2 hour or so that he wants to be outside with a 12 Ga shotgun close by mainly to scare the critters off! My neighbor has seen a couple of Cougars and about a 200 lb Bear in the hills right behind our homes recently. We have packs of Coyotes all around us also. Probably not the best place for cat lovers to live, but it is what it is and we love living here.

Weasel, where do you live and what is your 'first' name?

Take care, Clyde

This is Simon - 9 years old


This Smokey while grooming

I do have a name I was given in church but it is so foul I don't use it and everyone calls me Weasel, except for one person who calls me "Mum" and my Mum who named me herself but can never remember it!
(Not sure why, I'm not exactly long and thin, or particularly sneaky, but it seems to have stuck.)

I live in Yorkshire (UK) so the top of the food chain round here is the domestic cat! We do have some birds of prey but they would draw the line at a guinea pig and we have fox/cat/badger/hedgehog proofed the back garden. It sounds very tame compared to you! We probably get more snow than you? It's certainly quite wet here. MCs are a good choice of cat for this area as they seem pretty waterproof and don't mind the cold.
Your two are stunning, by the way.

Our two go walks too, Mynwood cat jackets and a retractable leash. Sid is good at walking to heel, Ava is still an airhead.