Cat's 'Dangles'

Bartok

Hello!

Yesterday I changed my cat's food, and unfortunately this did NOT go well! The poor thing came in from the garden today having done a very runny pooh. He's a long haired cat, so there's a load of pooh stuck to his fur! It's pretty smelly to say the least.

I'm looking for a bit of advice on dealing with these 'dangleberries'! I managed to cut a few bits off with a small scissors but this is far from ideal and not all that safe if he moves suddenly. Has anyone else had this problem, and what did you do?

I have got back to his old food, and will just let him have water for the next 24 hours to hopefully make sure it's all out of his system.

VonVix

Baby wipes have helped my fluffy trouser'd pooches in times of need.

Alicat

I have two longhair cats and I trim their back ends quite regularly as 'things' get stuck in them from time. The female sometimes gets hers wet, and then wants to come up and sit on me so it's our best interests to keep it short! It helps that they're both very tame, though. She lets me do anything to her, but he gets narky sometimes so I snip a bit off when he's sleeping. I am careful though, and never get too close to any skin; it's really just the excess bits that get in the way.

Bartok

Thanks Alicat,

Do you use a special trimmer or just a scissors?

Outkast_IRE

Also as a side note.

When changing a cat or dogs food to another type or brand it should be done gradually over the space of a week or more, changing the ratio of old/new food each day.

It decreases the likelyhood of such an upset stomach

Alicat

Just a scissors, but if you're unsure you could use it like a hairdresser does; hold the hair in between two fingers, with your knuckles against the cat's skin (protecting it), and use the scissors on the hair coming through the inside of your fingers.

kathleen37

Yes, I also have one that I have to trim the bum beard.VERY CAREFULLY is obvs the way to go, and I too generally wait till she's asleep. Toilet wipes are also good to always have on hand too....

Good luck!

eezipc

We tend to trim our two cats every so often as well because the hair is quite long at the back and it does smell.
We bought a pet hair trimmer from Aldi a couple of months ago and it works great.
There is no better facial reaction in the world than when you stick a trimmer near a cats a**e and he looks at you with a "What the f*** do you think you are doing?"