Metro Cat Clinic

Grooming Services

We offer full grooming services for your cat.

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Grooming For Your Cat

Metro Cat Clinic offers a complete array of grooming services for your cat (one of the very few in Birmingham.) We can do bathing to nail work to clipping, but since cats are fastidious creatures by nature, we do not generally recommend bathing.

We are able to do a brush out if mats are not bad.  This may or may not require total sedation.  Some cats can be brushed out with just a heavy sedative.  

Cats over 8 years old are required to have had a healthy bloodwork panel within the last 6-8 months for grooming.

Cats we have never seen will also require a short physical exam, as anesthesia affects cats differently.

Grooming is considered a drop-off appointment and is only performed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.  We will call you when your cat is ready to go home.  Morning appointments are usually ready by noon. Grooms scheduled for the afternoon are usually ready for pick up by 5 PM. MCC is open until 6 pm and if needed your cat can stay the day with us for a small cage set fee.

Please fill out the online grooming consent form.  This will cover any needed sedation, bloodwork permission, directions for grooming look, and any other services that are needed (annual exam, medical concern, etc.)

Cat Bathing

Cats, by nature, are very fastidious creatures and rarely need our intervention.  however, there are some medical occasions when a bath is needed.  

Nail Trimming

At MCC, we do not perform elective declawing. But we do trim nails on a regular basis. https://catfriendly.com/scratching            is a good site to read more about why cats scratch and ways to direct them to an appropriate outlet.

Soft Paws

Soft Paws are semi soft plastic caps that are glued onto your cat’s natural nails. (usually just the front) They are replaced every 4-6 weeks.  We can apply them for you or you can at home.  And they come in clear or different colors (your favorite team? Christmas? Sparkes?)

Persian Clips

We are able to perform the basic Persian clip that involves shaving the body and upper legs, leaving the face, a bit of main, lower feet (we call the “Uggs”), and the choice of brushing the tail out or just leaving a ball of fur on the tip. 
*Most cats require sedation for this process. 

Lion Cuts

We are able to perform the basic Lion clip that involves shaving the body and upper legs, leaving the face, a bit of main, lower feet (we call the “Uggs”), and the choice of brushing the tail out or just leaving a ball of fur on the tip. 
*Most cats require sedation for this process. 

Standard Grooming

Your cat may not need a full Persian clip.  We can perform a good brush out, a “Potty Trail”, clip just the abdomen, or removed a solitary mat. 

Sedation may or may not be necessary, and sometimes the mats are too severe for a brush out.

$15 off first exam for New Patients/Clients

When New Client/Patient form is filled out online and submitted