A curly coat punishes enthusiasm. Brush it the way you would a straight coat and the curls pull apart into frizz, the coat puffs, and the cat learns to leave the room when the brush appears. Add a house move — new rooms, new smells, furniture in the wrong places — and the grooming routine has two jobs at once: keeping the curls untangled, and proving to a displaced cat that some part of the day still happens exactly as it did before.
Hands, not brushes, for curls
Work through the coat with your fingers or a wide-toothed comb once or twice a week, easing small tangles apart by hand rather than dragging at them. Curls tangle from the inside out, so part the coat as you go and check the dense spots behind the ears and under the collar line. When the coat needs resetting, a bath followed by quiet air-drying draws the curl pattern back together far better than a blow-dry and a brush-out. End each session with the same brief ritual — a final smooth of the coat, a treat, the comb put away — so the cat can predict the ending as reliably as the start.
One settled room while the home is new
Choose the room she has claimed as hers and groom there, on familiar bedding that smells of the old home, at the same time of day. Keep sessions short while she is still mapping the house, and let her leave when she has had enough; a cat followed from room to room for a comb-out learns to hide at grooming time. Use the hands-on minutes for a quiet once-over — running your fingers under the coat for lumps or scabs, glancing into the ears, checking that claws are not catching or overgrown. Those checks, done weekly on a cat you are already holding, catch small changes weeks before they would announce themselves.
Short sessions on a shared rota
A post-move household runs on boxes and lists, and grooming is exactly the kind of task every person assumes another person did. Decide who grooms on which days, and what a session covers — comb-out on one day, claw and ear check on another — so the work spreads without duplicating. Whoever finishes notes what they found: a tangle starting behind an ear, a claw that needs attention next time. The routine, repeated calmly in one place, becomes part of how the new house turns into her home.
Shared through Care Teams in KinsLe, the week's last comb-out gets its timestamp beside the earlier ones, and the unsettled cat meets the same calm rota in the same quiet room.