Thread: Maine Coon Grooming Basics

Glad you did though, as its revived a thread that interests me. We have a kitten, nearly 8ths old now and boy is she shedding atm. We have wooden floors throughout almost the entire house and it's like tumbleweed in a western desert daily here! [we were quite worried at first, but the more she loses, the fluffier and healthier her coat looks and feels so am I right to assume this is normal both at this time of year and possibly because she is losing left over kitten coat?] I groom her daily, mainly with the wide toothed side of one of these but rarely with fine side, which I think is similar to the furminator mentioned a lot in this thread. The finer side works very well on the other two short haired cats at shedding season, and has done their coats a world of good, but a bit worried about using it on Ella, and this thread has simply confirmed my thoughts. She also matts, so far only in the 'pits' of her front legs and she is quite comfortable with my snipping them away. We tried teasing them out but she really didn't like it. We occasionally have to trim away round her rear end too where those 'um bits' have, errr...hung around