What a beautiful boy!!! I wonder how this would work on shorthairs. My cats aren't terribly fond of being brushed.

He is gorgeous! Fluffy black kitties are the kittiest. But I'm partial.

Scoot is short haired on his back. Apparently there's a nether world called the undercoat on cats. Gracie is a little longer on top but just as furry underneath, but she doesn't shed like he does. I could have kept combing and pulled out just as much fur. I never got this much with a brush.

Catty, your cat looks a lot like Scoot. I remember he's named after a singer and it's on the tip of my tongue. Is it Stevie Ray?

The Zong Zoom Groom does the same. Have one, but rarely use it. Too much hair everywhere.

The boys let me use a comb and human brush.

https://www.chewy.com/kong-cat-zoomgroom-multi-use-brush/dp/45801?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hg&utm_content=KONG&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KEQjwn_3GBRDc8rCnup-1x8wBEiQAdw3OAdYH_0hW7TYCo07I5s3QUTYmruQ8uwThnAF0Bf5mgPYaAsM78P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

I have 2 cats and 2 dogs, after purchasing my third or fourth fur comb similar to the one you show, I purchased the furminator. So much better. Worth the $40

The hair stuck to the comb or piled up at his tail end. I didn't need to keep removing it from the comb like I do with a brush.

Another product like this is called the Mars Coat King. It comes with various size blades and they will guide you yo the appropriate blade for you pet. I love mine!

I love my furminator. Worth every penny.

Your babies are beautiful!

The Furminator is a comb on a plastic handle. It's the principle of charging $40 for something that cost a couple of bucks to make. Some companies are just too greedy. I remember when $40 was a lot of money!

Why does Dorothy Loo have a naked belly? Is that her belly button? Cute!

FWIW, I DIYed one of those things w/ the serrated metal strip from a box of waxed paper & often used it on my short-haired kitty, & she liked it too. We called it 'raking the cat'. That cat is no more & the cat we have now has super long wispy fur & no undercoat. I have not tried it on her.

Mayflowers, Dot is a Devon Rex and always has a naked belly and very, very, short hair everywhere else. My Abby makes up for the shedding tho...she's a persian.

That is one of Dot's nips :-)

I have a black kitty like that and we use a furminator which I paid no where near $40 for. She doesn't really like having it done but DH is good at faking her out and making her thing she's just getting a vigorous rub down which she does like. I still take her in once a year for professional grooming at the beginning of summer and they get piles of hair out.

The Furminator is $34 on Chewy and a few dollars more at the pet store.

Marlene, I see that is a nip now. I couldn't tell from the little photo on my tablet. ;)

I have a Furminator and my cats don't like being brushed with it. It pulls. I did buy the dog one so maybe that has something to do with it. I thought it was just the larger version of the same thing though. I'll have to look into one of those. I'm getting ready to take one of ours to the groomer. He doesn't want to cooperate and we're tired of fighting with him. I don't want to do it but modified lion cut it is.

Also have beautiful black long-haired kitty! He is OK with being combed through at a point he gets quite annoyed. I had him groomed one time and he was gorgeous--so fluffy. I also had him get a lion cut once. He was much cooler, though. The trauma of grooming was not good for either of us. He usually pees on the groomer and I am too nervous. Luckily, he will let me comb him, though sometimes I might have to cut out a mat.

Oh my! I didn't know kitties went to the groomer! Scoot doesn't get mats.

The groomer asked me if I wanted a lion cut. I couldn't bring myself to do it. She's so beautiful and it didn't seem right.

I prefer full fur but our one cat's hair just mats so easily (rear end fur creates issues too) we really feel it's the best thing to do at this point. It's not for the look. Never say never.

May - It's been very hard to find someone who grooms cats. I only managed to find one!

She - somehow the lion cut seems more suitable to your manly cat vs my princess Mimi. Cattyles - Mal is very cool. He must have some Siamese with the crossed blue eyes, also the coloring. I would not choose a long haired cat because of all the hair issues but Mimi kind of chose us - stray living under the neighbor's deck and they weren't pet people. One of their kids begged us, in tears, to take the cat....the rest is history.

Cattyles, we had a cat that looked just like Mal! A Firepoint simese and gorgeous. He lived to be 22. Their eyes are the prettiest blue!

Kong makes a brush that is both cheap and the bomb. Our animals love the massage it gives with it's thick rubber bristles and it's very gental. I brush the dog a little bit every time we go outside to potty and it keeps much of the blasting fur at bay. Chewy sells them, cats 3.50 and dogs 4.00. I think they may come in different bristle sizes too.

Yes, I have been told he is firepoint siamese or Himalayan. His two sisters are fluffy cream with seal points. Someone in the neighborhood must have been breeding and either moved off and left them or cast them out. :-( There is only one female that isn't fixed. I can't trap her. Occasionally, I can pick her up but if I make one false move, the claws come out. I manage to find homes for most of the kittens but really good homes are becoming rarer, as this is a very small town and cats are just not cared for the same as dogs. Mal is number 4 for me, which is too many. But after his "speuter" ordeal, I could not resist him. My son still tells him he's a pretty girl. Mal throws himself onto his back and makes air biskets while chirping.

Here is his adorable snaggle tooth. The vet said it was fine but it looks uncomfortable, to me. What do y'all think?

Oh yeah, finding someone who grooms cats is an issue. Most dog groomers do not do cats. It also takes a long time because they have to work on them in phases.

There is one place that exclusively grooms cats, but that is on the the other end of town.

There is a lady at my local PetsMart who does the lion cuts. First thing she does is the nails and then the bath. They do not use dryers and just towel dry them and let them rest.

The other time I used a mobile grooming service that came to the house. There is another mobile groomer in my neighborhood, but she doesn't do cats either. She was the one who told me about the place that exclusively does cats.

As I mentioned, both times Shelby peed on the groomers, so it's a bit embarrassing and I felt I had to give extra tip for that even though they wear scrubs, and I'm sure they experience t his on a regular basis. He's a little more mellow in his older age (13) but can still be strong-willed. When it is super hot in the summer, he will lay down in cool spots in the house or near the A/C registers, and that seems to be the best solution. I can manage any mats or dingleberries that might come up, though sometimes it's a two-person job with DH. We're out in the yard now, and I have to comb him out after he comes back in. He loves to roll around in the dirt/dust but his shaking it off gets rid of most of it.

Gsciencechick, I love his face. He looks like he's considering very important matters that concern the whole planet lol.

what did he seem to think of his lion cut?

cattlyes, I can understand why you couldn't resist Mal! I am not familiar with snaggle tooth but if he doesn't paw at his mouth or chew funny, I would think it is ok.

I agree that good cat groomers are not easy to come by. I am grooming challenged and having had two persians, a good cat groomer was worth gold to me. My two girls are/were not groomer friendly and how the groomer manage to work miracles on them, I will never know. Yesterday, it took two vet techs to trim Abby's nails and remove a couple of small mats. And she looks so innocent :-)

Oh my, what a beautiful smooshie face! Are she and Dot loving to each other? My big old fluffy black is sooo sweet to the youngsters. He grooms them and snuggles them. He can be stern too. It makes me fall in love with him all over again.

Abs came to us about 4 years ago when she was 12 weeks and she and my perfect, precious 17 year old Oliver snuggled and groomed each other from the second day. Two years later, Ms. Dot came to us and she and Oliver were BFF's from the moment they saw each other. Abs and Dots on the other hand were World War Three and Four (Dot would have accepted Abby but not the other way around). Fortunately within a few weeks, they began to tolerate each other. I think it's the girl/girl thing. Oliver was a love bug and both girls (and my first baby girl) adored him. Each other? Not so much. I am hoping to find a senior boy to join our family.

Very pretty kitties today!

Yes, he seemed much cooler and comfortable after the lion cut. It's funny because I could determine if he wanted the "ball" at the end of the tail or just leave it more flouffy. Same thing with the mane. She could have cut more of the mane, too.

We adopted a girl kitty almost two years ago and he gets along great with her, better than what he ever did with the other kitties I had, who preceded him in order. But she is younger and smaller (Siamese mix). They sleep together and groom each other.

"My son tells him he is a pretty girl'

Oh that is too funny, our cat had that with his teeth too, but he never made a sound except for when he was hungry. I can't believe how much he looks like our cat looked.

An old boyfriend and I were asked to take him as a kitten when my sister discovered her dogs would try to eat him. She told us it was a girl, the boyfriend named "her" Pris because it was also very fluffy (and very cute). I took her word for it and never bothered to check the sex for myself, but a couple of months later, I found him doing the wild thing with another cat we had just offered to home which produced kittens. Pris was a BOY but by the time we'd discovered that fact, he already knew his name. So we lovingly referred to him as our "confused" cat. :c).

Lukki, I don't think they care at all, as long as they are loved. I don't think Mal even minded his speuter because it was his ticket to the indoors. He shows us his nekkid belly all the time. He is a right up under your chin and pats your face snuggler, to which the other cats roll their eyes lol.

3Kats - Ah, very true!

In general I'm a little concerned if he'll be chilly after the fact. I'm hoping he'll be able to adjust without being too grouchy. Actually, overall, right now his knots are under control again except for his back end. At least if he gets a lion cut it will look like a style vs. just a bald butt. :)

Marlene, we have a sweet girl, Sami, who looks innocent like that, too! But she's usually thinking up something she shouldn't be doing.

Donna

I think you're right! He sounds like he's a real lovey!

See? How could this face cause trouble? LOL

Msmeow, she has an exclamation point on her face, how sweet!

Cattyles, I'd never noticed her blaze looks like an exclamation point! :) That's because usually she's addressed as "Sami!" - as in "Sami! Get off the counter!" "Sami! Get out of the sink!", etc.

Donna

I have a Mars Coat King that I use on my airedale and it works really well. The breeder recommended it. Speaking of lion cuts, this video is a riot (poor Stains):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoKUIpkFVts

Oh that's funny Donna, good catch cattyles! It does look like an explanation point! And right between the eyes no less! Very cute! Ha!

I've gotten three piles out of him so far. I really like combing him instead of brushing him. The day I bought the comb, he gave two distressful sounding meows, threw up his breakfast, and there was a hairball in it. It seems he only has them during the spring and summer. I want to get the carpets cleaned so I'm trying to get ahead of the hairballs.

I just want to give all of your furry babies a big ol' squeeze. So adorable!

How could the vet have missed that?! Poor kitty! I'd be furious.

Well, I did tell the vet he was a girl name Mallory. She felt horrible, I felt horrible, plenty of angst to go around!

Obi had to get a lion cut. Poor guy, he was so embarrassed by it! It has grown out and I've been grooming him a lot more seriously since then. He's not fond of the procedure, but ... probably better than the lion cut? Then again, it happened in an August of a really hot year, so maybe he didn't realize he really had it better?