Cat hates being brushed/combed

[HelloCheekyCat]

She actually went for me this morning when I was combing her 😔
We've tried various brushes, the flea comb gets the most hair out but she still hates it.
She's short haired but it's all the fluffy under fur which we get out.
Do we kid keep persevering? I only try it when she's on my lap so when it was really hot she wasn't brushed at all because she was too hot to sleep on me

No violence but the very sight of a brush would send mine running for cover, same with the scary grooming mit. I thought I'd have one more try as Girlcat is moulting everywhere & chucking up 2 inch fur balls every week, and found These on Amazon. And Girlcat LOVES being stroked with it.

I need to keep a bag beside me when I use it for the clouds & clouds of fur being removed!

Why are you brushing your cat so much. If she’s short haired leave her be!

We never brush ours.

Cats moult in reaction to the weather. So lots (like my shorthaired girl) will be moulting loads extra at the moment and consequently getting hairballs. Brushing helps!

Assuming this is your problem @HelloCheekyCat , I guess hairball paste would be another option? Or bribe her with Dreamies to sit still, that's what I do.

We have an undercoat brush for our longhaired cat, the bristles are fairly soft.

We brush him every day, he tolerates it as he get rewarded with Lix e Lix after.

On occasion, he will actually run to his brushing area when he sees the brush.

The vet told us too. He brushed her a couple of times with a flea comb and got loads of hair out

@AllotmentTime DH did put a little pile of dreamies down for her to eat but she just ate loads and he hardly got anything out 😆

Mine hated it at first. I would stop altogether for a while, then when she’s sleepy and relaxed, hold the brush so she can rub her cheek on it.. mine love that as feels like a scratch. She’ll then associate the brush with good things and you can slowly start from there.

Girlcat of the 2 inch long hairballs every week is short coated as well, she's just moulting like mad this year. She's good about grooming herself, but I got loads and loads off in just a few minutes when she decided the rubber brush thing was OK. I was even getting loads off just stroking her.

Which would come out in due course anyway. Leave the poor thing alone.

Which in many cat's case would come out as they are grooming & go down into their guts, to form lovely hairballs. You may like the sound of the coughing up of a hairball, but they aren't really good for cats to get them all the time.

Have a quick look round on the web and see just how many articles there are (including organisations like the RSPCA) which tell you brushing your cat is good for them. And then notice there are none, zero, zilch, which say anything else. All are in agreement once a day for long coated, once a week for short, is recommended.

Plus, you may say "poor thing" but many cats adore being brushed.

Have pieces of ham near her when you’re about to start
with every stroke give her a piece… worked a treat for us for nails cutting and combing. Now he doesn’t need this anymore

We got this thing for our cat:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grooming-Dematting-Undercoat-Deshedding-Removing%EF%BC%88BLue%EF%BC%89/dp/B0987QLQV5/ref=sr_1_31?crid=352OIDSRPDT6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.R1ASFxNBq2b5KXd0bxaORXcLtrowPnhD0j52Bw3FSoh2egS_9mKLRY_KbmGttHFG_BYsQ0l5T8B9PmLrCsD6ZoDDU3TL68TnyD02-nmDuQ8_jYdqnb6RMMn_uLHxMlHOXLn6FHZygJWATxhoHYQO7LCsVGtgDlJ-ajiZML6QpTNwlrGkOQGmdmjhQSAq7_SXP3x8QBm-PDYYWs1-zCu_h1copkcbIb0msBn0M7bqx2usiO_FEMoB_FcUeFgETn0CVAEaBsu6TEIggfuXRf6xDeMyqxDYm9RzUSXXFQpPhYc.JMzlLBOLhMfNUjU-w-vYwhyvPjLvdDJHuMWk0VQ9JHA&dib_tag=se&keywords=cat%2Bgroomer&qid=1751815485&sprefix=cat%2Bgroomer%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-31&th=1

I know it looks like a torture device but it works really well - my long hair cat loves it but even if yours doesn't like it, it is at least much quicker at removing the extra floof than anything else we used!

For those asking why we brush her, not sure how easy it is to see but this fur sort of gathers at her bum (plus the dandruff type stuff) just from stroking her as @Allergictoironing said, so she has a lot of loose fur.
thanks @BrentfordForever she is definitely a fan of ham so I think we’ll try that!
and thanks @BillStickersWillBeProsocuted ill have a look

Feed one at a time rather than give her a pile.

Build up to brushing, a couple of small strokes with a comb or brush while delivering her favourite treat. It will take time and she might never learn to love it. For now, focus on exposure training and desensitising her - stop when she tells you she's had enough, keep an eye out for her getting overstimulated. Only do it when your cat is relaxed and dozy.

My cats prefer a tangle teezer type above all other grooming tools and one of them has fur just like your cat's - the denman d6 shower brush works really on him.

Salmon oil added to food can also help with dandruff.

It took one of my cats several years to like being brushed, but she adores it now. Kept the focus on her head, the her shoulders and didn't even consider combing more sensitive parts such as her tummy or hind quarters until she was happy with her head and shoulders.

I used to deliver a quick gentle stroke of the brush when she was being fussed and then put it down. Building up to 2 strokes etc. And held the comb/brush teeth out to her when being fussed so she could choose to rub her face on it.

I have the pot of Dreamies next to me and put one on the floor each time. She comes to get it, she gets a few brushes.

After a while she stops coming over and that's when I know she's definitely had enough, because she loves Dreamies!

I feel like this puts her more in control? Because she can choose whether to come and she knows that the price of the treat is the brushing. Although I may be applying toddler parenting type logic to my cat here 🤣

Her fur looks totally normal for a cat during moulting season - I really wouldn’t stress either of you out trying to brush her unnecessarily.

Adding salmon oil to their food can help with their fur and you can also buy special hairball treats and pastes too.

And this one clearly doesn’t!

Stroking her would deal with the loose fur on the photo.

Ah, someone who's never had a short coated cat who sheds like mine do. I can stroke and stroke and stroke, and half an hour later Girlcat is bored & there's still the same amount of hair coming out. 2 sessions with a half decent grooming tool & she's perfect - for about 2 days then a load more comes out.

And that still doesn't answer why all the recommendations from specialists say to brush them.

My cat likes these gloves from Amazon.

I feel for you. One of mine won't allow us to groom him without a fight without some serious strongarm tactics and is an ever-shedding beach ball of fur. It's insane how much he sheds. He vomits furballs and sometimes craps them as well, looking totally miserable. I can brush enough to make an entirely new cat and it still keeps coming.

Sometimes I'm tempted to hoover him.

Is her moulting naturally actually causing her a problem?

I've never brushed a normal short haired moggy.

I use normal detangling brush like this one https://amzn.eu/d/0ose8Xd

She hated cat brush so switched to this one. I usually wet it before brushing. Now I have the reverse problem- she wants me to brush her all the time.

I had a otherwise lovely black short haired cat - she never liked being brushed - I could get just two or three strokes in before she was extremely annoyed to the point of swatting me. (She came to me as an adult, with a bit of a bad start in life).

I imagine if you get them used to it as a kitten it’s easier.

I didn’t push it - I could get quite a bit of loose fur in the three strokes I was allowed. I recognise your picture of loose hair on the haunches - you can get that off via stroking.

No mine do shed but what’s the issue?