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hi my name is kendra otto and i'm an
international consultant for the antis
company today we're going to talk about
cat grooming at home and what tools you
should use to make it a successful
experience for your cat
for starters you want to trim the nails
to make sure that you don't get
scratched by really sharp cat nails in
case they don't like grooming for
brushing I like the rubber tip coated
pin brush to make sure it glides through
the coat really well and gets out some
of the undercoat after brushing you want
to follow up with a coarse tooth comb
and a fine toothed comb making sure that
there's steel to reduce static then I
like to follow up with a flea comb which
is not only meant for fleas but you can
use it on some of the shorter haired
areas like the face and down the legs to
reduce the amount of undercoat that they
have flighted flowing around the house
if you have a matted cat we have several
options of blades 4matic cats I would
use a number 10 blade and if they're an
extreme case I would use a number 30
blade we also have for a longer haircut
a 7fc and these blades are specific cat
blades with the egt technology to make
cat grooming a lot easier
if you're looking for a longer
attachment comb trim I recommend the
steel combs
so let me show you how to use these
tools on our rag doll friend Mackenzie
first we're going to start off by
clipping the nails
pressed between the toes to make sure
that we expose that toenail
now that we've clipped the nails we're
going to move on to clipping the hair on
the bottoms of the feet
and using my ultra edge clipper with my
30 cats late on it and I'm just going to
skim across the top of the pads I'm not
actually going to dig between the
webbing because if you do that you're
going to end up cutting the webbing the
reason why I do this is because it helps
reduce the amount of cat litter that's
tracked out of the cat box
after that I'm going to come in and just
tidy up the bottom of the foot with my
scissors
it's gonna round out underneath
use my brush
kind of fluff up some of that code on
top of the foot
and trim off
some of these long hairs
and I put the foot down on the table
and round out the foot
see how we have that nice finished cat
foot now when you decide to brush your
cat make sure that you brush all the way
down to the skin so you want to push the
coat back and line brush this will help
get any of the extra undercoat and mats
out of your kitty
and make sure that you lift up get the
underside of the kitty the armpit the
belly area some cats will let you roll
them over some aren't so tolerant
so after you've brushed and got some of
the undercoat out of your cat you want
to make sure that you go over with
coarse teeth and then fine teeth always
using the steel teeth on your comb
because if you use plastic you're going
to get a very big staticky mess and your
cats probably going to get a little
angry with you because the comb will get
caught
you can see the hair that it's pulling
out and now this is all dead coat it's
not live coat that's going to cause any
harm with the animal to follow up you
want to use the flea comb on the head
and down the leg areas some of the
shorter area getting some of the
undercoat out
make sure you get behind the ears
and again just the finest undercoat
comes out
so now we're going to clipper the body
of our cat what I've done is I've
changed the blade length to a number 10
and I put on a steel magnetic attachment
comb on a 10 blade setting the reason
why I'm using an attachment comb on
Mackenzie is because I want a longer
comb cut and she's also 16 years old so
I don't want to expose how thin she is
underneath so I'm going to turn on my
clipper on a low speed setting and the
reason why I'm doing the low speed
setting is because I want to make sure
that she's not afraid of the Clipper and
the reason why I'm reversing the
attachment comb is because I'm trying to
get a shorter yet presentable clipper on
the kitty a lot of times when you group
a cat and you leave there Colbert coat
longer with an attachment comb it kind
of looks like a child took scissors to
the coat and gets really choppy
go with the grain to to try to get some
of that length off
now if you were to clipper this Kitty
and you actually wanted to use a 10
blade or a 7 blade a much shorter blade
you want to make sure that you're
careful in their armpit area by the rear
end and the back of the legs because the
skin is very thin in those areas
especially the loin in the belly area
and you can really get the skin caught
between the teeth of the blade and Knick
your cat
so as you see
the difference in our clipper work
how nice and long and full the coat
still looks versus what we've not
clipped you can see the difference
between the shorter and the longer
something a little bit easier
maintainable for the pet owner at home I
hope you've learned a lot with all of
the tools that we choose to use on
grooming cats
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