After Thousands Of Cats...This Is a First

Today I am doing my first ever teddy bear cut on a cat. This is Ember and she's a four-year-old rag doll. Ember has been professionally groomed many times, but the last time she did bite the groomer or something like that. So I am going to be a little bit cautious when I'm working on her today. She does seem very, very nervous. So because she has previously bit a groomer, I'm just going to put her in a cone just in case. For obvious safety reasons, I'm told that she is a bit squirmy. Ember is here today for a teddy bear cut, which is typically not something that I offer. It's just not something that I'm really trained to do when it comes to cats. It's okay, it's okay. Teddy bear cuts on cats are far more difficult than teddy bear cuts on dogs. Their coat does not easily smooth out the same way a coat does on a dog, for example. So you kind of have to go over them and over them and over them and over them in order to get an even cut. And sometimes it just looks really, really horrible. Now I did buy a clipper vac, so I am going to try using that today because apparently that helps to prevent those types of lines and chunkiness in a cat. The only thing is, is that I did not attach it properly. I did not realize that you were supposed to glue it on your clipper and you're supposed to wait 24 hours for it to adhere to the clipper. So it's kind of just taped on there right now, which means it may not stay and it may not work. But I'm still going to try because, you know, the worst case scenario, that doesn't work. She just goes home looking a little bit choppy. The owner already said that she didn't care if that was the case, if she wanted me to use her cat as a trial today for this, she's OK with it. And I mean, you have to learn one way. So that's how we're going to do it today and hope for the best. Hopefully Miss Kitty Cat here does not bite me. I know she is wearing the cone, but that doesn't really ensure my safety. It just kind of gives her a little bit of a buffer before she can reach me. It's all right, girl. I kind of do want to bathe, blow and brush her out first before I give her a haircut, because that will make her coat a lot nicer and easier to go through the clipper. And I'll be able to find if she has any hidden mats, because the clipper will not go through her if she has any type of matting or compacted coat. Good girl, Amber. Oh, it's OK. It's OK. You stay there like that. It's OK. Oh, it's OK. It's OK. I don't believe she believes it's OK. Oh, it's OK. Don't scratch me, though, OK? I feel those nails coming out. No, no, no. OK, Amber, I have to turn on the water and I don't want you to panic, OK? Please don't panic. Don't panic. It's OK. You're OK, Amber. Is it a horrible experience, ma'am? You're OK. I'm going to give you a good towel dry and then we're going to put you in the rage cage. I hope you'll be OK for that because you're really nervous. I don't know if you're going to handle it too well. I know. Don't take this off your head. All right, Amber, please do your best not to panic. Let's see if she'll let me dry her on the table. What are you doing over there, girl? Why are your legs crossed like that? OK, she is dry. I've gone through her with the slicker brush all over. I'm just going to do a quick brush with the comb through her just to see if there's any matting I may have missed. It's OK. I am not putting the cone on her. Hopefully I don't regret it. I haven't seen her try to bite or swat me once. I haven't seen her growl or hiss. Or heard her, I should say. So I don't think that she will. But you never know. Maybe the last time at the other groomer she was just having an off day. I'm not sure. We're going to try this, OK? So clipper. Clipper vac. Not on properly. Supposed to be glued. I didn't know that. So I still wanted to try it today. So I'm just going to try it with tape and hopefully it goes OK. And if not, at least we tried. OK, this is a total game changer. Oh, my God. Wow. Oh, my God. Where has this been all my life? So basically, this is supposed to help you doing an even cut on a cat because shaving cats can be super hard unless you're shaving them in a lion cut with a number 10. Wow. Not only does this make the haircut look better, but this is so much faster. It is heavy on the wrist, though. So this could definitely be harmful to the hand if you're doing this all day long. This is going to be ideal for shaving the poopy pantaloons moving forward, even if you're not doing a teddy bear cut. Well, if it's working that amazing and it's not even on correctly, I can only imagine how good it's going to be when it is on correctly. Obviously, I'm going to have to go over her, right? It's OK. I am not going to shave her tail. I know. It's OK, girl. I know you're being really, really good. I need to do your head. OK, but you got to be nice, girl. Extremely, extremely impressed with this piece of equipment. I knew it was going to make grooming cats easier, but I didn't think it was going to be that easy that quick. I mean, it's definitely not perfect and I need to learn how to use the equipment. But I'm pretty impressed with it nonetheless. You cannot move because I do not want to hit your whiskers. It's OK. OK, so I took her down with a 13 millimeter, and now I'm going to go in reverse with the 16 millimeter and see if that makes her any more even. I may just have to finish the rest of this with scissors. But I would say for my first try, I am happy with it. Not perfectly happy with it, but I think it could have been worse. I can't always be this thorough with cats. Obviously, it really depends on their temperament and how they allow me to groom them. In this case, she's been really, really good. That's why I've been kind of particular and going over her and over her. And I'm not usually able to be that thorough with most cats. They don't really allow it. Well, I am pretty happy with this teddy bear cut. First one I've ever done. The clipper vac was amazing. Highly recommend. I look forward to doing more cats like this and learning even more. If you guys like today's video, don't forget to hit that follow and subscribe button or share with all of your friends. Thank you all so much for watching, and I'll see you again in a few days. Good girl. You're so good. You're so pretty. Thank you. Please come again.