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post #1 of 8
3/31/11 at 11:36am
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Hi all y'all,

I have a red-point Himalayan and I do groom him with a greyhound comb every single day and bathe him 1-2x/month now. The think I'm noticing is that his Tuffts just seem to keep growing and growing and growing.


Are the Tuffts ever supposed to be trimmed? I haven't done it thus far, because I want to be sure it's the right thing to do.

Thanks ahead for any help your persian/himmy owners have to offer! :-D

Warmly,

Julie O'
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post #2 of 8
3/31/11 at 3:57pm
Ear tufts? toe tufts?

I don't trim any of my kitties. The longer the ear tufts the better!
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post #3 of 8
3/31/11 at 4:07pm
Tufts look good on Persians! But if he's just a pet I probably would trim them.
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post #4 of 8
3/31/11 at 4:46pm
Thread Starter 
Oh, stupid me! I meant toe tufts - I'd just never seen any so long! Thank you all so much for answering!! :-D (whew!)

Chief Red Cloud is papered, but his previous owners (who used to breed him and said they showed him) said he lost his one eye when they "accidentally" let him out.

So he won't be showing or breeding (adopted him from the shelter - actually sadly gave back to owners one time because they really wanted him back, but they called to say he was lost again, during a huge rainstorm - first time out, lost his eye; second, got ringworm, ear mites, worms, giardia eye infection; third time, when I had given him back, they keep saying it was an accident, but I was mourning Chief Red Cloud's pain of walking with all that long hair in a very bad rain for 3-4 days here, I called all the shelters, put up 2 ads on Craigslist every day with 4 pictures of the Chief. They had done absolutely nothing (they brought him from New York, so I was surprised).

Chief had apparently wandered into a little old lady's garage during the storm on the 3rd day (they told me he had been missing for 7 days!) and she had been feeding him. She saw my ads, called the nearest shelter (which is 1 mile from the original owners house and over an hour from mine) and they called me since he's still microchipped to me and, along with my other cats, on their "Friends for Life" program (in case something happens to me. They're a no-kill shelter, they will care for my cats forever unless they can find a suitable home. Expensive, but well worth it.

Ack! Sorry for the babble!

I'm so happy to receive an answer - thank you guys/gals!

The ear tufts I've never messed with (have another longhair tabby mix whose ear tufts I don't mess with, either). But Chief Red Cloud, being a red point, it's soooooooooooooooo hard to find his nails for clippin'! I do it, but you know the tolerance time-table they have, lol. I'm really quick with the others, but he and Tiny Dancer, the other longhair (also has Radial Hypoplasia) are much more difficult.

Okay, sorry again for all the cacaphone; thank so much for all the help!!

Warmly,

Julie O'
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post #5 of 8
4/1/11 at 9:44pm
i have two long-haired cats, and one of them gets really long pawpad fur, so i just trim it down every other month or so myself (verrrry carefully with some scissors. i never trim much off, just enough so i can see her pink pads again.) if they're really bad then it's off to the groomers for the professional treatment. i had read somewhere that if this fur isn't kept trimmed down for indoor cats, since they can't wear the fur down being outside and all, then it will trap bacteria bear the pads and toes causing infections, and also reduces the traction available since it covers their little pads.
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post #6 of 8
4/1/11 at 10:01pm
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OMG!

THANK YOU for this information! VERY informative!

He's getting a tufft trimmin' tomorrow! (Too blurry-eyed tonight). His tufft hair is just soooooooo long, I'd never seen it that long in any cats' toes!

Thank you, thank you! :o)

Warmly,

Julie O'


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Originally Posted by twobananaz View Post
i have two long-haired cats, and one of them gets really long pawpad fur, so i just trim it down every other month or so myself (verrrry carefully with some scissors. i never trim much off, just enough so i can see her pink pads again.) if they're really bad then it's off to the groomers for the professional treatment. i had read somewhere that if this fur isn't kept trimmed down for indoor cats, since they can't wear the fur down being outside and all, then it will trap bacteria bear the pads and toes causing infections, and also reduces the traction available since it covers their little pads.
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post #7 of 8
4/6/11 at 7:31pm
My Maine Coons has really long toe tufts too, they're supposed to have them to keep their paws warm but she really slips and slides on floors! She usually refuses to jump when playing with wand toys because she slips on landing... I didn't trim them before because we were showing her but she hasn't been shown lately due to her deciding she wasn't happy at the show (hissing in the judging cages, I think it was the smells of all the strange cats) so I may start trimming them.
It is especially hard for nail trimming because she's polydactyl and has hidden dewclaws that are between her leg and her "thumbs", they're really difficult to find and expose for nail trimming as it is, and it's even harder with all the fluff in the way.
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post #8 of 8
4/6/11 at 7:36pm
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I actually just trimmed Chief Red Cloud's Tufts today (just a tiny trim; they were about a full inch long) and he went postal on me; even hissed at me which he's never done.

From now on, thing I'll leave the Tufts as they are... "he'll have it Hiiiiiiiiiiis waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay", lol.

Warmly,

Julie O'



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Originally Posted by Nekochan View Post
My Maine Coons has really long toe tufts too, they're supposed to have them to keep their paws warm but she really slips and slides on floors! She usually refuses to jump when playing with wand toys because she slips on landing... I didn't trim them before because we were showing her but she hasn't been shown lately due to her deciding she wasn't happy at the show (hissing in the judging cages, I think it was the smells of all the strange cats) so I may start trimming them.
It is especially hard for nail trimming because she's polydactyl and has hidden dewclaws that are between her leg and her "thumbs", they're really difficult to find and expose for nail trimming as it is, and it's even harder with all the fluff in the way.
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