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Originally Posted by Abymummy

I have already given some tips above - iro sun drying. Since we are only discussing basic grooming nothing else is relevant.

With any cat, what matters with bathing and drying is the coat/skin condition itself. You must first determine what kind of coat your cat has...is it long, short, coarse, smooth, silky. You must also determine whether your cat needs a medicinal bath or not. Once you have determined that, you must then decide what you want to happen to the coat once the cat is bathed and dried - do you want a fluffy coat, sleek and shiny etc.

If you want more than what has been stated then I would suggest you check your pockets first...top grooming shampoos and conditioners are NOT CHEAP! They actually cost MORE than regular human shampoos!

and to dig in a little more information........my most expensive shampoo (in 16 ounces standard size) was HK$450 (about 200 ringgit).........

I have a collection of some 150+ shampoos in my arsenal, a lot of them are pet products while many other are for human use primarily but indeed do a marvelous job in cat grooming after a series of proven experiments on cats........

However after all these years of repeated experiments I have nailed down to using perhaps just 15 of them for the most........not to say that the rest are not good, but these 15 perhaps are the best of the bests for my grooming needs..........

I have recommended a human shampoo (about HK$250, or 100 ringgit, per 400ml) which I use as bodifying / texturising shampoo to a lot of breeders, Persian and many longhair included from which many of them are owners of this year's Divisonal Winners. And all the comments I have got so far are more than positive and this shampoo is now the integral part of their show grooming weapons - Adilah I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about, and let's see if I'm lucky enough to get you another bottle from Japan before the HK show..........

And I also love to mix my own shampoo out of shampoos of different brands for very specific results, and I have, in all these years, written down results of my grooming / bathing in a few note books. Now that they are so full of words........like diaries.........

To me, the "magic" happens in the texturising / volumising / bodifying step.....but it is something words alone do not say it all - it's the thing you need your hands to tell you............

And of course there are a lot of tricks in how to apply shampoo to your cat - just pour in? diluted? - but then again these are pretty much the basic - for advanced show grooming what about temperature and pH, and how to control them...........and what about regional application?

A tricky question - how to apply shampoo in very high temperature without hurting the cats? And why high temperature is needed?

Ever tried Fuller Earth in degreasing instead of the like of Goop?

Aren't these interesting?

Grooming is an odyssey to me...........