...haired cat properly? A long haired tomcat regularly calls by our house. He's sweet but is a terrible mess - tangled, matted hair with fleas teeming inside the lumps of fur. I've tried combing him (I have two long-haired cats myself who are combed daily) but he's beyond being combed. I've phoned the number on his collar and know he lives about 600 metres away. I told the owner that I thought he must be lost as he was in such a sorry condition. He said he wasn't and would find his own way home. At the risk of being verbally abused(!) I said that the cat was badly matted and he agreed, saying it was a job for the vet and he'd take him. This still hasn't happened. What would you do?