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Several days ago I noticed a very small clump/mat/knot in Perrine's fur, on the side of her neck. For the length and thickness of her coat, she's been remarkably tangle-free until now. I tried to tease it out with my fingernails, but was not successful. And she wouldn't hold still long enough for me to comb it out. I kept forgetting to pick up a brush to use on her (I'd rather not fill my own hairbrush with cat hair), but last night I finally remembered to do so.

Unfortunately, she's much more interested in sfiffing and chewing on the brush than letting me brush her, but I did manage to undo the edges of the clump a little. Finally, I realized that I wasn't going to untangle it completely without pinning her down for long enough to seriously piss her off, so I resorted to scissors.

That required annoying her a bit too, but not for very long. I think I got the whole thing (and a little bit more -- I was going for speed, not precision). It was interesting, holding that tuft of fur between my fingers, separated from the cat. The feel of an untact lock is rather different from the loose clumps of already-shed fur that I encounter on a regular basis. And her fur is so thick that I can't see the spot from which I clipped it. A minute or three later she had forgiven me for the indignity of tugging on her fur to hold her in one place, and is now sleeping curled up on my left thigh.