has anybody any suggestions how i can clean my cat. she insists on going under my neighbours car. she comes indoors covered in car oil from under the car. i cant bath her as she would permantly be in the bath. but i worry that she is licking herself, thus ingesting some of the oil. tried wiping it off but that doesnt work. any suggestions please

I've found this
"Contaminated coat

The animal appears to have oil/tar or unknown substances on its coat or feet. Due to the nature and sensitivity of cats and dogs this can be extremely harmful and toxic if ingested.

Prevent your pet from licking the area.

Wash the area with water containing a mild detergent, rinse thoroughly with clean water.

Vegetable oil or butter can be helpful to remove tar. Swarfega can be helpful to remove oil.

Contact your vet if there is heavy contamination or if you are worried."

I would use a diluted cat shampoo spray on from a hand sprayer & towelled off or a "self-rinsing"cat shampoo"like Bio Groom Cat lovers Klean Kitty waterless shampoo(scroll down the page to find it)sprayed on & towelled off. Use an old towel as all the oil will come off on to it

oops forgot  you can also use Goop

>Groomers Goop Shampoo 473ml  (Ref. 4435c)

Groomers Goop Shampoo. Groomers Goop is the professional's choice to degrease the coats of Persian, Himalayan, Maine Coon cats and long-haired dogs. Nothing works better to remove grease and oil from your pet's coat. Groomers Goop formula is specially designed to remove the most difficult stains and leave your pet's coat clean, lustrous, full of body and grease free. Removes yellowing in white areas and great for stud tail on cats.

When having to clean seabirds caught in oil slick muck good old fashioned 'Fairy Liquid' type detergent is what is always used here.
However I dont know about long term regular use.....At least it does clean it up.

Karen :)

Phenols are  poisonous to cats-phenols can be found in many detergents - washing up liquid, disinfectants, bleach -  also anything that goes 'cloudy' in water contains phenols.

Coo....good job you knew that then.
Obviously okay for birds though.
Karen

Birds don't have the same reaction to Phenols(neither do dogs) & whatever is used if it isn't specific to cats then it has to be completely rinsed off

My Oscar used to do this and being mainly white with ginger bits. It was quite noticable, when it was bad I used to use veg oil on a cloth and sort of groom it out  wiping the cloth in a little oil then into his coat and using clean cloth so not putting it back on. Occasionaly butter, but it seemed to work he did it for 22 years and I used the same remedy.

My washing up liquid doesn't cloudy the water, it just froths!   There's lots of people use washing up liquid for 'stud tail' in male show cats & in one breed I own, some people use washing up liquid to wash their cats in.  In the US, one successful exhibitor/breeder washes all her Selkirk Rex in Dawn and they have fantastic coats!

This link suggests Swarfega.

I wrote

>also anything that goes 'cloudy' in water contains phenols

I did not write that Washing up liquid went cloudy(bleach doesn't either)

I still wouldn't use washing up liquid on a cat or a dog, it is developed to wash dirty pots etc not cats & dogs & to get rid of all oils/fats etc, it is obviously cheaper than shampoo, but money shouldn't come into it.

Its not a question of 'cheapness' using WUL on stud tail, it's a matter of having a cat that's clean and doesn't have a greasy yellow stain on its tail when it gets shown.  And if WUL works, why not use it?

& Goop was developed for exactly the same thing & doesn't contain any phenols

thank you for all your replies. Could you tell me where i buy Goop. found it on an American site. Is there any pet shops you know of that I could get it. Thanks again

You can get Goop here.

Goop scroll down a bit