Grooming an extremely matted cat

hey thanks for watching DD Croix with my fake groom on YouTube so today we are going to be grooming a matted cat and I don't really like to video record cat grooming because if you don't like or don't understand dog grooming you're not gonna understand cat grooming in the sense I mean if you think some of the things that we do are dangerous or dangerous but if you think through a camera's view that the dog is being harmed during what grooming I'm doing here you sure would not understand cat grooming cat grooming is not for everybody it's very dangerous that's why you'll find probably an average of 1 out of 100 groomers knows how to groom a cat we've basically undergo some minor training for the situation that we put ourselves at risk in and I say at risk because okay so what I was saying was my head malfunction in the camera and I'm eating before like before they come in okay so you want a groom ekat there's not very many cat groomers a matter of fact when they when a client calls me they're like oh my goodness it took us forever to find you some cats I had groomed oh my gosh I should pull out this this huge cat Matt the whole body was matted it was a hundred about one hundred and fifty dollar groom was very dangerous it was very matted I had the parent assist it was worse than just a carpet it would have been matted and bathed over and over over for I don't know how long over over a couple years I want to say a couple years I haven't ever seen that cat again so I have no idea what shape it's in now but I will pull it out and do a separate video for this like at the end anyway Wow so we're about to groom a matted cat it may not be all matted but cats this is what I've learned whoever taught you may have taught you something different I'm not a full-time cat groomer but I will groom a cat and I know how to groom a cat it isn't in my way I don't like to do all these haircuts Fluffy's that's a cat groomer like that's all they do is cats like and you walk into their facility and they have cats not dog you know you don't want to mix cats and dogs in my opinion the dog barking and the cat freaking out you don't want that so each appointment it's gonna be a private appointment here and it should be in your store too you also don't want you just want a clean facility I've had different stories I always ask a lot of questions to my clients just like I'm Jana everything to you guys and I asked you guys a lot of questions I think okay so I asked my question my clients a lot of questions all the time so I can educate and so I can share that information with someone else that might be going through the same thing that I hear about right so I've asked a couple clients that are cat cat folks and they have their cats groomed and they were so unhappy and I'm like why and they explained like they went into a place that all they had was cats but it was so dirty and I said well why did you leave your cat there because the cat got sick right this is a this can happen on the dog side too you walk into a facility you look around you smell you hear you listen you hear lots of animals you hear lots of barking and your cats that you like there's a few things that pet owners should be picking up on so be aware well I always tell people walk in before you're gonna go make an appointment with somebody walk in and get a tour if they can't give you a tour then there's something wrong or there's something they're hiding or there's just something just is not right you should be able to see where your pet is gonna be groomed and how safe it is and how dirty it is you should be able to see that I'm not speaking for other groomers they probably don't like the fact that I just said that but in my business because we do minimal pets at a time like one at a time or two at a time you can I will let you walk through you can walk the matter of fact the pet but you guys see this pet parents are always helping me groom they're their aggressive pets so anyways back to cat grooming like a client told me she walked in and was nasty smelly should the they seemed like the owner was horton I'm not hoarding cats but there was a lot of sick cats in their eyes also I mean shut things like that going on so he's that person might be rescuing he or she might be rescuing cats whatever the case is you're about to leave your cat there that cat was up there for like four hours didn't even groan because she callback was like is my cat done yet so know where you're going there's not a lot of cat groomers out there pick and choose I'm pretty honest I don't like to do the food food cuts on cats I just do we're gonna do a shave down that's what you're coming to me for I don't blow dry the the cat and I don't cage dry the cat so I allow like I let the cat go home air drying knowing the difference between dogs and cats that's just what I choose there's a teacher that I took a class with a groom teacher and she does cats lots of them she gave me in her class I learned so much about cats and cat bathing but I'm still not gonna do that here we just are a little bit of a different groomer I will groom cats they're mostly shaved downs very very rare I've done I did a cat you showed you guys I did a cat bath recently very very irregularly am I gonna work with a cat that's not getting like a shave down so if we're gonna get like that kitten we're gonna get it used to grooming of course we're gonna try to implement bathing and grooming early on in its life so that we don't have the aggression but I'm here mostly for matted cats aggressive cats it's same with my business I'm here for matted dogs aggressive dogs that's what I do that's my specialty so when a cat comes in matted it is a very serious situation so I wanted to get this out to you guys I don't like grooming cats on video I'm not I'm not gonna maybe even have David holding the camera on doing that but I'm gonna attempt to record this and here we go hold on okay we got dad assisting just to make the process faster and here we go we're gonna do a ten all over on this top I'm not even gonna just I'm not gonna even mess with trying to save hair or do anything like that we're just gonna go like this and just a a simple little right here just two fingers are really yep just right there and with a cat you just want to work quickly you guys know how fast I am anyway but you guys want to you want to work fast with the cat this is a I don't like it that's I don't like it flap well I'm I'm ready for you yeah this is seriously mad at you guys something this is yeah that's really not just under the arms here oh yeah this is huge this is huge right here [Music] so you don't dig on a cat because it is like saran wrap and if you're if you possibly can grab skin just you want to just get what you can a little bit and then find your mats and worker under the mat but you have to find your skin first very dangerous so cat skin is like saran wrap so if you Nick it a little bit it's gonna come wide open it's all matted in here chunks have just and for some reason it seems like wait cats when it's matted like this it's really pulling on tugging on the skin the whole time and I told them already I mean this is a prime place for me to Nick a cat and unfortunately it just what it is [Music] like right here you cannot even see where the skin and the hair of you know it's so easy to just grab all the skin so this is not heavy-handed long matted in here I'm so sorry so they just adopted this cab that's why she's in this shape look just straight up like three days ago from the shelter so you see can't me tell Kenya and I know what I'm doing so if you have a whole one I can see the hole here if you have a hole I'm actually gonna there's no skin here I'm gonna take that like that so I can have a little bit of an opening you can see here real close I don't if you can see this but you can't you can't tell where the skin is here the mat is but it's pulling on the skin real hard so that's very painful right there and that's most of her body it looks like on this side you just gotta get in there see it's actually to pull the hair off here how bad that was [Music] I can bring my comb in here I can get it in here I know don't look at me like that looking like that [Music] guys gonna do so let's skip come back to this and then come back when it's not as matted get myself a whole so this some of this is actually not matted so I'm gonna do this and create some kind of hole here so I'm leaving the mass alone because that's going to take a minute [Music] [Music] you gotta feel the body make sure you're you know don't get lost in the hair you can't probably see the body parts here oh yeah we got some food back back here really smelly I'm so sorry it's just been peeing on herself the whole time I'm not going anywhere yep we were singing smelly catcher okay okay okay chill chill you're good [Music] yeah [Music] so sorry should I go on screaming yeah show your good don't get mad don't get mad I'm trying to help you out here okay she's not that's probably the best position you can happen okay I'm trying to help ya you gotta let me help you really nasty back there no no okay hold on I'm so sorry okay hold on oh no this is not a dog you guys it's okay he's okay no one it's all right time I know it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay it's okay we're trying to help he won't take home if you thought it takes longer it's alright I know it's okay it's okay better do it promise it up I'm I am I'm hurryin up these time he's doing good you gotta stay still old she's gonna get you don't want any NICU you better stay still yeah you gotta stay still [Music] did you hear he's okay she's trying to help I've got to stay here like this I might need another set of hands yeah maybe I can hold the top and hold it back to you legs here okay that's all you can look that way you don't have to actually look at Hook and snow that when they come in here I haven't probably through my nose and something that over here so breathe up yeah okay watch your fingers here we go I'm actually not caring about how pretty this looks I just want to get it off and be able to get into this matted area because I don't get better on it but everything is matted this is just really bad over there yeah I know I got it she was just such a bad shape especially we could because I'm know she's in pain to you with all her ass here's a skin flap here so you want to watch that I just changed my blade on the water - I shouldn't not be hot yet but be aware easy place on the mats on the tummy to get a nipple so you guys try to be careful [Music] be sure to breed them you're not hearing the breed at all though [Music] [Music] see how that skin isn't laying right there so I think if I remember right mom was like it's matted under the armpits not in the sanitary look this is the whole pack oh yeah totally different story so on my youtube you guys when you're talking to a client over the phone but not that I don't believe people but I went to someone says I'm addict cut it's usually not just one little area on a cat it just and that have never been that what to me so when I quote them I let them know hey it could be it could be higher you I won't know until you come in so just be really clear with that because over the phone you cannot you can't tell me that right it's really hard to get the clarity over the phone on what matting is [Music] at least for somebody close to this thing you couldn't feel that it wasn't her exactly you couldn't tell right yeah okay yeah until your city we didn't know it was this bad even until now that you're getting down into them in three so you don't even get a call through yeah I'm gonna comb under the mat it's crazy [Music] you look as soon as I put the Matt blade closer to the body just skin can lift into there so it's really hard to actually head you can come take over the camera if you want I've got the camera on the pedestal here but you have to take it off with it they pull this let's not hold the camera and then 4x recording degrees did you get some more for that yeah so I'm lucky I have all these people holding the cat but this would be really hard to do and they would someone else would probably say you should be sedated yes right that just I was wondering it was if we needed to do that or not by I'm a groomer that people come to after they've been grooming can you take that yeah I've kept saving grooming sedated for years so I I'm not one that's gonna say let's get sedation because it's so expensive and it's so hard on the system right and if the cat was really aggressive which I have I've been at a veterinarian grooming and I'm like this cat must be today there's just no way I can't even touch it you know so it really just depends on the cat so this one time hopefully will never be back here again oh no one ever really nobody will never be back here again and to pay 150 130 for the sedation and a plus the green costs I think us not gonna now it might take longer but once we break through the math which we will this is what we don't like up under the tummy yeah under tummy and the luck eatery or private area is this so I'm gonna kind of try not to don't like oh mama he's kinda fun over here I'm trying to come over here just work on something else I don't want to give her really pissed off yet find a lot more to do so I want to get the pissed off this and later you say that familiar you better get all the plants out underneath a chest okay you just gotta work your way around everything look you're doing great okay [Music] American woman woman [Music] I need to create some kind of hole here like you almost need a scalpel yeah I need to just go like are you - yep exactly - I was pulling on her skin that's pulling on it yeah that's already just pulling on it I'm not doing anything more is it yeah we know you can't feel so much better than that for this oh guy over the phone same scenario two days ago got a cat is matted and I he is like whoa do you sell the Clippers and I said I do not recommend if you were remember I think I might have told you that - I was like if you're gonna try to do not use scissors do not go in there and try to cut out a mat because if you don't know what you're doing man you're gonna really you'll be in the hospital I'll tell you what and yeah he didn't come in for grooming so you don't want to try this at home it may it doesn't know if this is not easy you guys and you need all these people holding so unless you're gonna do this sedation right there's no way I could have done it just by myself the cat would be moving and in pain I mean she's doing really good for this she's only just showing signs of pain you know she's not swiping at me yet or anything like that so it's amazing a regular another cat would probably already be trying to kill me no she's been a sweet baby you can all suck in the hair and here I mean I'm watching her cause I'm definitely she art she can really swipe my balls if she really tried hard and she catches pretty fast but always watch what you're doing [Music] okay okay okay I'm so sorry [Applause] [Music] [Music] you guys you okay oh yeah I'm working around the holiday together [Music] [Music] right on [Music] I know I'm so sorry [Music] [Music] so did you guys when you got her a pager if you tell me produce it no one else had morning I think yeah we haven't done anything true so if someone would adopt this cat and bathed her right away triple-triple tighter and see that's what we were worried about it we pay either do we not so that's what we call we called professionally we could name we didn't know how to even unpack it so if you're a human and you tease your hair like it back in the 80s I had my hair teens up by 20 feet high you tease your hair you put water in it tease it dry it you know over and over you're not gonna brush it out at the end of the night you're just gonna shave it out so I'm so glad you didn't make this worse so if you have a matted cat like this you do not bathe the cat good job so I'm kind of I can see the skin I can see them here but I'm kind of pushing and pulling pushing and pulling almost like I'm using my clippers to brush it out further so I can have more cutting room where I can see them not putting the hair above the skin but it's definitely painful for the cat so she doesn't bite my elbow right in her face the joints are burn doing so bad my blade is not touching the skin of the cat at all all right all right I mean a little breather okay don't tell me you guys we are making some progress here these up here so don't tell me okay how many come in come in and I need to trade places with you I'm not sure okay now let's try that let me just switch hands yeah yeah sounds cool okay stay there I'm gonna move this [Music] [Music] I'm looking at that going on gosh like how did I do this before and I grabbed those scissors you know it's hurting so bad just haven't been there we're getting we're getting low getting it off we're getting it off oh yeah we're getting there we're getting there cat very nice tension so David I don't know if you want to it'll probably a our video but you can come back and you know I mean really want for the sake of the length of the video you can stop here and then come back and see improvement and come back again if you want or you can let it play you don't matter to me it's just tedious that's all I know I'm so sorry she's doing so good you guys I can't believe it I thought she was figuring out that the parts that have been done feel better hopefully I know and I want you to expose it unity really realize how badly worst that's definitely hurt definitely hurt who's doing this the skins not flat so I couldn't even use the Clippers if I wanted to not just not in this mat anyway okay [Music] [Music] I know right now it [Music] so much better after this [Music] because you know [Music] [Applause] [Music] but you didn't have to go back and forth and see different angles when you try to attack it from a different way and they'll be there forever so look like create a little opening I can see the spin on the other side then try it from this angle not the best to use your blade back and forth but so it's been a battle and I've kind of set the parents free and the second here so we're working with her we had some man just some serious Matz I saved one right here this sucker man I'm gonna save this for my wall when I build it and she's actually letting us get it all done if some painful areas you hate it or tell shape I went ahead and did that because the stench I think would be great to not have that hair animal shelter hair with pee and urine is just you can't get rid of it no matter how often you wash washing so that's that day we got a little the scruff it does not hurt the cat to hold the scruff but there has to be control in this situation so I'm holding the scruff and I'm moving quickly some ass back here still I'm trying to work out that's the last bit of it I'm sweating I mean this is very hard work she's wanting to pull back in jump trying to see how I want to get this come on you guys let me get in here okay just because she's fighting I'm just going to go backwards on my phone all right dad I'm gonna have you see if I don't know if you can see mom and dad are here they're watching okay so I'm gonna need to get tuck my blade here so you want to do and I'm really just worried about the blood Matt's here thank you he's gonna tuck that ear I just want the mats out because everything else would be fine I'm pushing down really hard he's got the scruff it's still very painful situation just gotta move faster tell swiping she wants to attack [Applause] look at it this Matt you can't can't do it like a dog can't just shave it out you know cuz her skin fold it into it get out of there already we got it I got it I got it no no no no no no no no No No [Music] don't scratch yourself don't scratch yourself nope hey Eleanor Eleanor calm down calm down Eleanor it's okay it's all right Eleanor that are finished am I gonna get it I'm gonna get it you almost got it yeah what Scotty Eleanor good girl yeah you're good good girl in Norway yeah no it's okay Eleanor [Music] so they done it okay okay okay dad you can kind of really celeb in here I wouldn't like that you're good you're good you're good you're good you're good it's okay Eleanor you're good you're good you're good you're good here take a look at this look at this thing over here yeah you're gonna look at something else look at something else yeah let's look at something else for me how about that pay attention this neck yeah there you go let me see in there for me there you go look over here we're going here pay attention to this thing yeah let go here okay look at the net than that here Madison that I'm here look at the net look is this way good good that's good almost done thanks for moving the hair for me yeah look over here almost done almost got it okay one more one more here one more here oh my goodness oh my goodness who did that to you which your ears dude okay thanks for watching there's a lot more to it but this is good for now thanks for watching we'll see okay hey you guys wow this was a serious situation very very matted cat she's not mad at anymore check out the back here how tight this mats were holding on to her skin back here I got him without nicking it I can't believe how red they are but she feels so much better the cuts not perfect but it's all the hair and all the matted hair is gone so thanks for watching and we'll talk to you later

Channel: My Favorite Groomer

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Length: 37min 11sec (2231 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 04 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/SensitiveSafari]

I wasn't oddly satisfied. It made me feel very tense.

[u/cooyan]

Is this cat sedated?