Patience Pays Off With Those Mat's!
 It was spring so the groomer said the only thing to do was shave her down to the pink, it was horrible! On walks everyone thought she was a poodle mix  Well after the hair started to grow in it was fine, but come this last november the mat's started to come in too. I brushed, but I was uninformed, so she was getting pretty bad. After reading, alot, I learned how to get through those nasty thing's. I went at it, brushing and cutting for a week. Finally they were gone! She had some patches, but I clipped about an 1" off and it looked better. She is now ready for another trim so that her hair will even out, she is mat free and loving it!  I just couldn't shave her down again, so with alot of patience, a slicker brush, a metal comb and a dematter I have a happy baby! I really only have to use the slicker brush for maintenence. The grooming is still in the early stages, bath's are easy but the grooming table is another story  , and this girl needs a bath every month |
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| Skye, congrats! Every furbaby is different, so we are always learning.
One of mine mats easily and has to be combed out at least weekly, the other mats rarely enough I can occassionly skip a week. 
I don't use a grooming table. We tried it with our first furbaby, but she hated the height and I didn't think it made any difference on my back. So I sit on the floor on an old quilt to groom them. I use a rake, a comb and a pair of bandage scissors (nurses use them to remove dressings, the bottom tine has a protective end to it). To remove the mats, I cut into the center of the mat, parallel to the length of the hair. This usually lets me gently comb it out, without losing all of the hair or the length of all of the hair. No More Tangles for kids will often work too, as long as you furbaby doesn't have sensitive skin. I always brush the furbabies out before I bath them, so much easier to comb them out. There have been a few times when my husband decided to help me out and bath them - before I had finished combing them out. It was much harder to get the mats out after they got wet.  |
| Congrats on all your patience! I'd suggest getting a straight pin brush. It's make brushing a lot easier and effective. Using a slicker exclusively may actually be causing more mats if you're removing a lot of undercoat as you brush, then when the new growth comes in, it makes more mats with the topcoat. |
Congratulations! I'll be starting matt-brushing in a few months as Bingley gets older!  |
| It's starting on Chewie just in the past few weeks. Look out Emily!!! |
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