Never Ending Shedding!

Hello

When should I stop shedding my cat?

I shed him once a week after bath, there is always hair in the shedding brush, when should I stop? are a few strokes enough every week?? or???

I don't understand your question. What does "shedding" your cat mean?

If you have long haired cats, the usual thing, for best care, is for them to be bathed, if needed, and professionally groomed, once every two months. These cats need to be combed every day, to prevent matting.

Short haired cats ate seldom or never bathed, by most cat guardians. However combing or brushing them can control the shedding of hair.

Robin

Yea, I though I phrased it wrong.

I bought a shedding comb for my cat, and I use it once a week after bathing.

When using it should I stop until no hair comes out with the comb?

Because the hair never stops when I do.

So I'm asking if is it like normal brushing (for  a certain time rather than waiting for a certain thing which is the comb can't shed anymore hair)

Maybe you are talking about a tool like the Furiminater (I don't know the correct spelling)? I've never I used one. I've been told that they should only be used with short haired cats, because they tear the hair of long haired cats. And that this tool cat cut the cats skin. My groomer doesn't approve of it, at all.

She recommends combing daily with a high quality metal grooming comb. Also the Zoom Groom gently removes loose fur.

Unless your cat goes outside and rolls in the dirt, bathing weekly is excessive, and may be causing more problems than it is solving.

Robin

I have a rubbery curry brush that is a vibrator. I brush them with that. They think I am loving on them since it purrs. Just keep on deshedding. This is shedding time.

I am sneezing up a storm. Spring has sprung.

I know what you mean.  I use a de-shedding tool on my cat and I can always find more hair on him.  He doesn't mind being groomed (seems to like it actually), but I only do it once a week for about 15 minutes.  I don't think you can ever eliminate how much a cat sheds; you can only reduce how much it sheds.  Invest in a good vacuum and lots of lint rollers.  

I use a furminator on my cats and it definitely helps reduce the amount of loose cat hair flying around. It is possible to overuse the tool. I kept using it on Miss Patchwillow because there was always more fur coming out, and at one point I really thinned it too much. She had a streak along her back that was almost bald. Now I groom her for about 5 minutes every two or three days and that's working well for me.

I have 2 short haired and 1 medium hair cats.  They, and I, love the furminator.  Have been using it for almost 2 years and have never had a problem with it.  It drastically cuts the amount of hair flying around my house.  1 of my cats has a very thick amount of fur and never quits shedding, no matter how much I brush him,  I can finish brushing and then pet him and get another handful of fur.  I have tried switching to a different high quality cat food and didn't see any improvement.  Any ideas? 

I was thinking a combination of the furminator and the rubbery curry brush. They will like that. As it is I sit to watch TV and the volenteers start lining up for their treatment. They would be disappointed it I said not today.

My Furminator is coming out because the shedding seasons already started in the house.  Jack's hacked up 2 hairballs already this week, poor baby     

I bought a furmanator yesterday for super deshedding.

Do you guys have the one that cuts the hair or the other one.

I bought the one that looks like a flea comb with the yellow handle.

Mine is purple with a slight curvved handle and a small metal comb on the end.  It doesn't cut the hair but does a great job of getting the undercoat.  We usually end up with enough fur to create another new cat   lol

Does the furminator really work? I've been brushing Gracie twice a day, shedding season is definitely here! I can practically see the hair come off of her as she walks lol ...

The furminator works very well on my shorthaired cats. It cuts down a huge amount of free floating cat hair.

It's not recommended for longhaired cats. I've read somewhere that it can damage the guard hairs on longhaired cats, but I don't know if that's what really happens.

The furminator works very well on my two shorthair cats when they sit still long enough for me to use it. Even if I can't get them to sit still, I will brush by their butts and the base of their tails quickly and that gets a tons of loose fur. For some reason it always seems to congregate there in this house.

This is kind of off topic a bit but just putting in my My Mario (a shorthair) used to shed a LOT.  And when I mean a lot, I mean like there was hair EVERYWHERE.  On my clothes on the carpet, on the bedspread, in the corners, in every nook and cranny you could see, there was hair in it.... no matter what I did or how often I vacuumed, I could not keep my house clean fast enough.  She had a hairball every 2 or 3 days.  Then I found out she was diagnosed with IBD and the vet put her on prednisolone and the next day she literally just stopped shedding.   It was like the invisible fur fairy was following my baby around cleaning up after her.

I barely have to brush her at all now - maybe once a month.  Of course, I don't know much about what breeds shed more than others, but perhaps there's an underlying issue that all of her hair is coming out?  Just a thought!

That isa very good point, Brandy Rowe. And the quality of the food the cat eats can also affect shedding a GREAT deal.



Robin

I use the tool to cut down the hair balls he vomits.

And it really reduce it to zero.

I have a medium-long haired cat that sheds beyond belief and it is causing some serious problems in the house my husband HATES it (he has really bad seasonal allergies). Is there a tool out there for the longer haired cats? I tried the one that has the "vacuum" so that it sucks up the hair as you brush and it tangled poor Caramel's hair so bad pieces had to be cut out...OUCH! But I am lost and out of ideas...it is so bad that even as I type I have Caramel hair all over my keyboard.

Cats shed at this time of the year, and they have very dense coats.  You don't say how you are grooming her at present, my tool of choice is a metal comb with fine teeth.  It can be very easy to let a comb drift over the surface, you need to be sure you are combing down to the skin and if the cat's coat is a bit matted it can need combing in tiny segments to do that. at least to start with.