Excessive cat shedding Excessive cat shedding Shedding in cats is a natural phenomenon.
It will happen if you allow it. Shedding happens for different reasons, mainly depending on whether your cat spends much time outdoors or whether your cat is purely an indoor cat. Cats that spend most, if not all, of their time outdoors tend to shed beginning in the spring months. You won t see much if any shedding of your outdoor cat during the winter months, because they naturally will hold on to all their fur to use as thermal protection from the cold conditions. But at the first sign that the days start to lengthen and the sun spends more time out, they ll start releasing their fur.