How to Safely Trim Long-Hair Cats

Let's talk about safely trimming a cat's hair that has long hair and a cat such as this that has very long hair they commonly get matted and mat very easily because they can't get back to their hind end a lot of times and groom themselves and so you want to be very very careful when you are ever trying to trim long hair. So prevention is good. If you can trim some of that long hair off, getting matted is going to be a lot harder to occur obviously and so you never want to use scissors.

You want to either talk to a groomer or your veterinary clinic and they can obviously help you and guide you along that route as well but scissors you are always going to get into trouble with that. Cats have very thin skin and it is hard to see that skin underneath that long hair and so you can actually lacerate that long hair with scissors. There are some commercial products such as clippers both electric and cordless ones that you can actually use to trim that hair as well and say also have some manual strippers that you can get mats and kind of little knotted things out as well in long hair. So prevention is the key to prevent mats and always just be careful because that skin is very very easy to damage.