Can you ever 'finish' brushing a cat?

[Esgaroth]

Or will they keep producing fluff eternally?

My cat is short haired but has a dense, rather fluffy coat and sheds quite significantly. I give him a brush every few days and he enjoys it for about 15 minute, after which he's had enough.

I get mountains of fluff out of him and have never seen any signs of it slowing down.

If he'd let me brush him for an hour, say, would I be able to 'finish' the job, i.e. get to a point where the brush was only picking up a little?

Just curious really as I don't think I'll ever be able to do it, even if I brushed him every day like I probably should. But sometimes I think I'd wonder if there was even a cat under all the fluff if he didn't move around and meow occasionally.

15 minutes? Wow, I'm lucky if they let me for more than a couple of minutes and I have tried all sorts of brushes and combs. Even in that time it reduces after a few strokes of the same area but never stops, there is so much you'll never get all the loose stuff off. Even if you vacuum cleaned them. I sometimes use one of those paper lint rollers on mine too because it's less messy than brushing.

Same here. My cat has a thick, coarse coat on top and dense short fluffy hair on chest and underbelly. Terrible for getting hairballs too.

I actually gave up with combs/brushes because they just didn’t work. I now put rubber gloves on and stroke him all over and it’s honestly terrifying the amount of hair that comes out. I do this every couple of days and there just seems to be no let up 😕

Nope
My old cat would demand brushes and lie there happily forever while you did it
The hair never stopped
New cat also likes brushes and still sheds everywhere

At least he doesn't get hairballs. I wonder if it's because he doesn't put enough effort into grooming himself!

Cat for reference:

Oh he’s absolutely gorgeous! 😍

He has a very similar coat to my cat but your boy looks softer.

Mine is short haired too
I wonder how he has any left sometimes

Oh he's very handsome!

I know, I feel by rights mine should be bald if I'm removing great handfuls every few days, but it remains as thick and luxuriant as ever. He is indeed very soft!

You lot can brush your cats?!? 😂

Oh sorry - forgot the cat tax! This is Big Rose. So called because she resembles an east end gangsters mum in attitude and stature. 😂

He loves it, purrs his little head off and makes these cooing noises. He's adorable!

Maybe he knows how much he needs it 😄

He's soft as butter and a very cuddly cat in general, though.

Gorgeous house panther with ear tufts 😻😻

I can make a whole new cat with the amount of fluff I get off this one every time I brush him. Luckily he also loves it.

Sigh.. no.. I brush girl cat a bit every day, and every day there are brush-fulls, and yet she's no balder, and there's still fluff on every black item - at least she enjoys being brushed.

Boy cat, hair also long and thick hates it, and we spend our lives feeling for little matts and trying to get them before they become big matts - each season he seems to pick a new place to get them - one winter it'll be his hips, another time it'll be his arm pits - this year it's under his neck and on his sides..

I had long haired Persians that looked terrible if you over brushed them. Although they didn't shed much.

The answer is no. You can never finish brushing a cat, it just keeps coming! Well mine stops shedding in the summer after a mammoth shed in the spring. But really they shed all winter because of central heating. Thankfully mine too loves a groom!

Our calico cat could be brushed forever and would still produce piles of fluff.

Our black cats, I don't know - as any more than a nanosecond and I lose blood.

He's magnificent!

My childhood cat was the sleek and glossy kind, clearly good at sorting himself out because he never needed brushing until he got old.

I realised after I got Kettle that there are short haired cats and short haired cats!

Ah the elusive cats that you can finish brushing!

I can't imagine how Kettle could be 'overbrushed'.

Did they get patchy or thin coated or what?

Nope.
Though I thought you meant will the cat tolerate a thorough brushing before walking off!
I have Maine coons and they literally shed just walking by.

I think cats break all the laws of reality. You could brush enough fluff to make a dozen of ours and it would still reappear faster than I can brush.

My cat is providing fur of the softest quality, for every nesting bird in a 20 mile vicinity.
Rag doll aka fluff ball

One of my cats has a very similar coat and you’re right it just keeps coming!

@Esgaroth they looked thin coated and not full and luxurious.

I tried the rubber gloves thing again last night after reading this, but kept getting static shocks from the ungloved hand that was holding her which wasn't nice, so that didn't last long and not much came off either. I wonder if that's why they hated the knobbly rubber brush we once had.