Tips on brushing/brushes for long haired cat?

[BrotatoChip]

I've got a long haired cat now after a lifetime of owning shorthairs and goddamn does she shed like a motherfucker. I'm doing what seems like quite a lot of brushing and the hair just never ends. I picked up an equigroomer and have added that as a finishing touch which seems to have helped some and is certainly removing a different kind of hair, but I feel like my initial brushing is really... inefficient? And kind of always incomplete? The brush is a pretty generic slicker type brush of probably not the best quality, but I'm really not sure what makes a "good" slicker brush or if this is even the appropriate tool here.

This is slightly compounded by the fact that while she'll happily sit on my lap for literally hours if I'm patting her, she gets annoyed by the brushing pretty fast. I suspect the brush is slightly irritating, though she doesn't full on freak out or run from the brush, she just wants to get up and leave pretty quickly.

Her coat seems to be in pretty good health otherwise, I just want to do a better job of this if I can. Any recs would be appreciated.

 

[FatherVwolf]

I have a Turkish angora with crazy fur. I use a furminator. Does your cat like treats? Brush her while she’s eating them. I keep up with the fur with a brush now, since shaving her at a groom was costing me 90$ a month

 

[BrotatoChip]

Does your cat like treats? Brush her while she’s eating them.

She's not super food motivated outside of actual junk food like chips and stuff which she'll steal when she can but I don't want to gorge her on. I've been tempted to brush her while she's eating a regular meal but like I said she's not super food motivated so I don't want to scare her away from that.

I've heard mixed things about the furminator, but that might be worth a shot.

I've wondered how she would handle grooming as her reaction to outside settings has been kind of varied but I think starting to get generally more tolerant.

 

[BrotatoChip]

OK, just to update. Hells fucking yeah homie, I wish I'd gotten on the furminator train before now. I couldn't find the smaller ones for cats near me, but I found a similar style and tried it out. It worked spectacularly well, and I got to a point where it felt like I was "done" brushing her. HUGE unexpected outcome that she fully laid down and really thoroughly seemed to enjoy the brushing. I was nervous because this brush was more "pully" than I was used to, but she didn't seem to mind and ended up stretching out, rolling around so I could get all of her sides, and when I was done she like, melted into my lap.

I don't know if I just caught her in the right mood or if this will be a normal reaction, but MASSIVE success on the first go-round.

 

[FatherVwolf]

OK, just to update. Hells fucking yeah homie, I wish I'd gotten on the furminator train before now. I couldn't find the smaller ones for cats near me, but I found a similar style and tried it out. It worked spectacularly well, and I got to a point where it felt like I was "done" brushing her. HUGE unexpected outcome that she fully laid down and really thoroughly seemed to enjoy the brushing. I was nervous because this brush was more "pully" than I was used to, but she didn't seem to mind and ended up stretching out, rolling around so I could get all of her sides, and when I was done she like, melted into my lap.

I don't know if I just caught her in the right mood or if this will be a normal reaction, but MASSIVE success on the first go-round.

Great news man