Thread: Lola 2yrs, is new to our home ( 2 weeks ) Does NOT want to be brushed HELP!!!!!

Two weeks is not much time for Lola to begin to trust you, so I would say just continue to do brief brushings and hope she gets better about it. She may but she may not. One of our girls is just terrible about brushing or even trying to cut mats out. Bella can be sleeping on my lap purring like mad, but if I start feeling of her mats, she will eventually swat me. She is a very dominant personality cat. Our big boy Remy, on the other hand, will let me brush him and actually seems to like it (as long as I am not tugging on too many mats).

I also never had cats growing up as my mother is extremely allergic to them, though my wife had one. We had two Maltese dogs, but seven and a half years ago my wife started feeding a large stray cat, and we eventually took him in. My first cat! Turned out to be a MC mix and just a wonderful guy--eventually. It took a good year before he really trusted us. Dogs can be won over much more easily by whoever feeds them.

Want to see a mostly shaved MC? Karma was nothing but mat when we took him in, and vet had to almost completely shave him when he was being neutered. It actually made him very cuddly, and helped integrate him, as he slept right against me in bed for some time. Me, who was initially planning on taking him to the Humane shelter when my wife started feeding him, and me who thought he didn't like cats. (We now have four MCs.) Anyway, here are a few photos of Karma shaved and eventually with a full coat: