one a Maine Coon and the other a Norwegian. The Maine Coon will let me brush him up to a point. The Norwegian looks at me like I'm from another planet the minute he sees me open the grooming drawer! What an experience!!!!!
I DO use scissors. BUT they're the very small, tiny tailoring scissors. And I only use them to snip what I can to brush the mats apart on my MC.
I have to take my Japanese Bobtail in to the vet for an appt this week and I'll be asking about bringing in my Norwegian for possible sedation and shaving. He has too many heavy mats right now. I know they pull on him and make him miserable. But he won't let me do much about them. And I feel so bad for him. I try so hard to help him, and I'm the ONLY one who can handle him.. he's so enormous and wild as a march hare for anyone else.
But, you said your baby would be the last long haired cat you'd have because of the mats. Let me warn you... long hairs are not the only cats to get mats!!! I feel sooo bad for the cat next door to me. he's a (would be) gorgeous short-hair flame point Siamese whose "owner" lets him run the neighborhood. He takes no better care for him than if he never saw the cat before in his life. The cat's entire back, all along his spine is one entire layer of mats. I feel so sorry for him. There's no way that cat can work those mats out. He'll have to eventually be shaved, once someone figures the cat is a stray and takes him in (and it will happen, I'm sure). I even have to watch my short haired cats for mats. All cats can mat; some just do so more easily than others. I think it's a function of how fine the fur is, not necessarily how long the fur is. (Just my opinion)
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