I bought a dematting brush at Petsmart in hopes of dematting Sylvester who is a longhaired tuxedo, you can see him in the "terrific tuxedos" post on the "Fur and videos only" thread if you want to, but it is not going too well! He is not pleased with having us try to do this, he is not used to it as he was pretty much an outside cat who came inside at times with his previous owner, so he has only been to the vet twice in his whole life, not used to a lot of handling or brushing although I can usually pick him up pretty much whenever I want to, but he isn't keen on having us try to demat him. We tried giving him treats and trying it while he was "distracted", I also held him and let Deb work on him, but the results aren't good, he wriggles and moves away, and we don't want to keep agitating him, but I REALLY don't want to have to take him to the vet and have him slightly sedated and have him shaved, Sebastian freaked out when we did that to him near the end of his life, and I NEVER like them being put under no matter how "light" it is.
Any helpful suggestions?
Any helpful suggestions?