An extreme EMERGENCY situation... | Persian Cat

today I am performing an emergency groom on a cat that is in desperate need of some help okay Sheldon we got to come out do you like treats hey look do you like treats okay NOP and you're not coming out that easily so this cat is going to be a surprise for all of you he is in very very poor condition hopefully this groom goes okay are we going to be a nice kitty oh wow you are in rough shape dude really rough shape yeah come out you are extremely matted oh boy this is going to be a challenge hopefully I can actually groom you and I don't have to send you home so Mr Sheldon here escaped his home and when they got him back he was in pretty rough shape so he's here today for a serious shave down he is extremely matted this is an emergency groom so I am booked out several months in advance but I always leave spots open for emergency these circumstances like this one where I will take dogs or cats in on my days off to groom them if they need it for health reasons obviously Sheldon is one of those cases today okay so first thing you're going to wear a happy hoodie I can't even I don't even know where your face is because you are so smooshed in holy moly hopefully you don't have any fleas it would be impossible to tell with all this matting please don't bite okay they've told me that he's gone to the groomers many times before to have a shave down and he should be fine so I'm hoping for the best here that he will be a good cat looks like he might have a broken nail I'm assuming your wild week away from home or however long you were gone for was probably an interesting one for a Persian cat he is neutered thankfully so even though he escaped home they don't have to be worried that he did the deed while he was gone so something that a lot of people don't notice with Persian cats or really any flat-faced cat is that they cannot properly groom themselves because of the shape of their face and head so they require an owner that is going to either bring their cat in for regular shave Downs to maintain their coat which is fine or brush their Cat every single day if this is not something that you want to do please do not get a Persian cat now this grooming may be painful because of how severe the matting is so it's important that I keep in mind that he might not be happy throughout the process I'm not going to Bubble him right away I don't think he wants any treats okay now using a reverse 10 I'm going to attempt to shave this really really bad matting I need a point of entry I have no idea where that's going to be maybe back here wow okay this is like a solid cast all over his body I have to stretch the skin as I shave sorry buddy to avoid nicking him cats have really thin skin but not only do they have really thin skin they also have kind of like a flabby skin it can easily get caught in your Clipper blade basically so you're supposed to stretch the skin as you shave to avoid injuring the cat but when their whole body is matted like this it can be really hard to do that because it can be really hard to even you know get to the skin holy moly he has extremely extremely dry skin under here you're going to feel really really amazing but this whole process is not going to be fun for you so hopefully you're a good kitty so far so good I have to keep an eye on his breathing as I work on him because he is a Persian cat with a smooshed in face and they already have trouble breathing just like pugs for example and he's wearing a happy hoodie so far I don't notice any issues with breathing but I do think this must already start feeling better for him what a shame kitty cat what a shame a okay no you can't run away though you might notice that I'm not going to be talking so much in this video and that's just because I have to really stay focused on what I'm doing so I don't hurt the cat and sometimes when I cat is this badly matted we do have to consider whether or not sending the cat to a vet would be better for the cat to be sedated and worked on so it all basically depends on how well behaved he is and if I feel he's becoming too stressed so and of course constantly checking the Clipper blade to make sure it's not getting too hot it's going to be working on overload right now trying to get rid of this matting so I'm just making different points of entries here so we have here we have here so that I'm not working on the same spot for too long causing a lot of pulling it's also important to remember that when a cat is matted like this sometimes we don't know what's underneath their skin or I should say underneath the matting there was a time where I shaved a matted cat like this and he had a huge soar underneath the matting so sometimes a cat starts freaking out and you don't know why and it's because they have some skin issues underneath all of this matting I'm trying to work as quickly as possible because I know that this is pulling on his skin really bad and probably is very painful so the quicker I get it off the happier he will be good boy good boy shelden now I'm going to go in from this side of this giant mat that's on his back here good boy well if there was ever an emergency groom that desperately needed to be done it was definitely you Sheldon a this is insane buddy I I can't even explain to you what this is like it's just I I have no words for this it's almost over well this part anyway wow that is totally insane this is like hard like oh wow and you can see all of the dry skin he needed that off I'm glad I came in today for you buddy look at that oh that's got to feel amazing you feel better yeah good kitty his skin is just a mess okay now you have a lot of matting all around you and you're going to have to let me get it okay I can see that you really don't like your your butt or your back end being touched but you do enjoy having your neck touched you're all matted under here sweet it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay good kitty it's okay please don't try to bite me I know you don't like it back here are you going to get spicy with me some people might ask why I don't use glove for this oh my God some people might ask why I don't wear gloves for this I don't really care to wear gloves when I'm grooming in general but when I'm grooming a really matted animal like this I need to feel the matting I need to feel their skin I am most certainly not wearing gloves cuz that's going to impede my ability to work safely i' really love to be able to stretch your skin under here buddy to shave [Music] it the matting under his belly and legs is actually not bad that's why I'm able to shave a lot of it without worrying too much about pulling on the skin because it's minimal it's strange how well it's not strange I guess but seems the his back was the worst of his matting no you're not going anywhere sorry about your life getting a really good cat sheld in you're [Music] okay even your head is matted stay where are you going I got the majority of the hair off of him I'm just going to give him a little bit of a break before I put him in the bathtub the owners told me he does not love being bathed so I haven't decided yet but I may or may not use the globe just for my safety but I'm just going to give him a little bit of time to chill for a minute because I'm sure that was very stressful for him before I put him in the tub please don't scratch me okay okay okay this we can do this we can work with you need a bath your skin is in horrible condition I know you remind me of mayonnaise it's okay no don't scratch don't scratch nope nope nope nope it's okay A put your hands on on the tub it's okay put your hands on the tub like that no no no there you go I'm going to be quick I'm going to be [Music] quick I know I know but like next time don't escape your house okay fine no no no scratching kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty okay okay [Music] okay it's okay it's okay please just be calm for 3 seconds I just want to make sure you're rinsed hey bath is over bath is over now you're going to go in the Rage Cage that should be fun okay okay I'm going to put them in their age [Music] [Music] cage all right I'm going to work on on his head first and then I'll put him back in the happy hoodie while I finish the rest of his body this matting here isn't really tough matting that needs to be shaved it kind of just needs to be brushed out kind of just slides right out I know you had a stressful day but I know you feel better you really didn't want the bath but the bath was really necessary his skin still kind of looks bad but it definitely looks better than it did before the bath he needed a good cleaning and as we've mentioned he can't clean himself so his face is also matted but I can't exactly shave that because he has whiskers and I don't want to shave them off so hopefully he lets me just brush all this out going to wipe out his eyes they are very dirty I wish that I could wash his face cuz it would be very beneficial but as we saw with what he does with the water washing his face is not a good idea get a Persian cat or a Himalayan or any cat that has a pushed in face like this if you can train them as a kitten to be okay with having their face washed this is going to help you a lot in the long run because their faces and their eyes get really dirty and a wipe only goes so far it's better if you use water soap and be able to rinse it off come here let's see if we can finish shaving you I'm going to put you in the happy hoodie now since the face and head have been completed okay now that there isn't really any matting this blade shouldn't heat up because I should be able to complete the groom fairly quickly thankfully oh Sheldon every time I touch you you twitch how come you like your legs h I am going to brush out the paws and the tail because when you shave little bits of hair gets stuck on that fur really easy easily and then I'm going to tryy to trim the paws the booties with scissors please don't try to bite me although I think you'd have a hard time actually biting me with that flat face I remember the first time I ever groomed a Persian cat it eyes were very runny and I felt like the cat wheezed when it breathed and I was so concerned about the cat I thought my God this cat must be really really sick those clients ended up being clients of mine for many many years and I remember her just saying to me no this is just a Persian cat and now throughout the years as I've groomed them obviously there are more well-bred ones and more poorly bred ones and I find the more well-bred ones like Mayo mayonnaise for example mayonnaise doesn't have any trouble breathing his face is not severely pushed in he doesn't wheeze at all this cat here definitely has more trouble breathing poor Kitty I'm just doing a quick little trim on these booties again don't really care what it looks like at the end here hey where you going [Music] [Music] right so obviously this is a whole new cat from the one that first came in I'm sure he's feeling absolutely incredible compared to how he felt like earlier we removed a ton of matting I'm going to put him back in his carrier I'm sure he's going to go in willingly because most cats do especially when they're stressed so thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this transformation it was a bit of a stressful groom making sure that I didn't injure this cat and of course he was very stressed out but we made it out alive I will see you guys again in a few days goodbye

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Length: 22min 46sec (1366 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2023