Grooming mats out of a lionhead?

[DianeS]

I have Angoras, and grooming some of them is an adventure! Long sleeves, heavy blue jeans, etc. Some of the calm ones I can sit on the ground or a table and groom them, but a few of them are too twitchy. Those I hold like a football in one arm, with their face buried in the crook of my elbow, between my arm and my body. The hand on that side holds their back feet, and the opposite hand can groom them. Then I switch sides to get the other side of the rabbit. For me, it's no so much whether the rabbit is friendly, it's whether the rabbit would take a header sideways off the table and hurt itself or not.

And it's perfectly fine to clip a rabbit's fur if you don't want (or can't) deal with it long. As long as the rabbit is not exposed to extremes of weather (rain, strong sun, wind) it's fine.

 

[SillyChicken]

Thanks for the info.

I picked up two lionheads Sunday that are very calm and friendly. I worked on a matt behind the does ears for quite a while, till I realized there was more hair in the matt than attached to her neck, so rather than prolong the process, I just snipped it off. She was very calm and didn't move the whole time I worked on her in my lap. The buck was a bit more active, but easy to manage to brush out. It only took me maybe 5 min for both to run a quick brush over them once I got all the matts out.