Thread: De-mating without injury

Originally Posted by FreyjaRoMaine

4) I can't tell where the matt stops and become skin and as I snipped away at my crumpled cat's fur I had the sickening feeling that the next chop might go through her skin

When you guys say you hold their paws, how exactly do you mean? to get under their front legs, do you get them standing on their back legs as though they're stretching upwards?

I am worried about cutting his skin too - it is so difficult to tell where the mat ends and skin begins it makes me very nervous using scissors.
I also have to work on my own and I hold his front legs with one hand while he is lying on his back on my lap, head towards me. I manage to comb then under his arms but when it comes to getting the scissors on it you need to hands so I have to let go of his legs. I then get a two second window before he realises he is free. Also while I'm holding his front legs he bits my hands or brings his back legs up to fight me.

I am going to look into those welders gloves!!!