We have to deal with mats like that on Keisha all the time,just yesterday we had to shave a section of her back leg because the mat was so big, she now has a huge bald spot. And we had a pile of matted hair the size of an orange.
Some cats have an undercoat of fur, it's kind of like a layer of shorter fur underneath the longer fur. As they shed it doesn't come out of the rest of the fur easily (unless it's brushed out by a human)and just kind of gets twisted up with the hair they haven't shed and forms mats kind of like dread locks.
Keisha gets mats all the time. Lily doesn't have the undercoat like Keisha and rarely gets mats, she has very fine fur.
We usually don't waste time trying to brush them out or work them out with our fingers (which is entirely possible and the right thing to do.) We just grab a pair of blunt nose scissors and hack away. The cats are used to it and don't seem to mind.
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Some cats have an undercoat of fur, it's kind of like a layer of shorter fur underneath the longer fur. As they shed it doesn't come out of the rest of the fur easily (unless it's brushed out by a human)and just kind of gets twisted up with the hair they haven't shed and forms mats kind of like dread locks.
Keisha gets mats all the time. Lily doesn't have the undercoat like Keisha and rarely gets mats, she has very fine fur.
We usually don't waste time trying to brush them out or work them out with our fingers (which is entirely possible and the right thing to do.) We just grab a pair of blunt nose scissors and hack away. The cats are used to it and don't seem to mind.