We adopted a cat from the local animal shelter recently, on their records she is 9 months old and was found with a litter of kittens. So she hasn't had the best start to life.

She is a lovely cat, very affectionate and isn't fussed by Moo running around being loud so is well suited to our household. However...she doesn't seem to know how to groom herself. I have adopted animals from shelters before and never come across an issue like this so really don't know what to do. I guess if she wasn't shown by her own mother she doesn't know how?

We have cleaned her ourselves by wiping her over with a wet cloth in the hope it would get her going herself...nope. It did remove some of the smell at least which is the biggest problem. Because she isn't keeping herself clean she is really smelly! I can smell where she has been and when we come home from being out it is really bad.

DH mentioned taking her back it's that bad. I would like to keep her so am open to suggestions of things we can try to get her to groom herself