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Help with grooming unruly Lionheads. Please help

M

mabster

Young Bun
Good evening :)
Hope you're all fine and had a funky day. I have spent the day at the opening ceremony of our new museum. Charles, Camilla and Queen Sonia of Norway popped in for a visit ;)

Anyway on grooming Okley tonight I noticed she is matted underneath. Now she has hasn't been here that long and never sits still for long. She is matted near her rear end. We managed to snip one off bit the others will take a while to do.e

Do any of you have a secret trick to this? I tried tempting her with spinach which she loves but when laid back she goes crazy.
Oakley is a gian ball of fluff and not only is her main huge the rest of her body is super fluff!!!

Well as ever your advice is greatly appreciated.

Michael Balmain
 
Could you put her rear paws on the floor, then just hold her top end up agains't your body, so it's like your exposing her belly, or will she not let you do that either?

Otherwise, I don't know what to suggest, Leila is not keen on being laid back, but she will for a short time while I check her over, and Joey doesn't seem that bothered as I've done it every day since I got him as a baby.
 
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