Call your vet in the morning and see what he recommends. Since your cat will
be ingesting anything
you use, it is important not to use something that will make her sick. I
wonder where she left little kitty footprints on fresh red paint? You might
want to keep her in where she is safe in case whoever did the paint job she
ruined is miffed about it. People can be very strange.

Take the cat to a vet where they will shave the fur off her paws.

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From: "David Gleeson" <dave_gleeson@hotmail.com>

Oil Base paint
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Vaseline - Fairly safe, takes a bit of scrubbing
Baby oil - Fairly safe, better solvent than vaseline
Hairball medication (laxatone, etc) - Pretty effective, believe it or not.

Use any of the above and:
Remove all trace of the paint then apply one more time, and
remove as much of the solvent as you can. Then wash the
paws with soapy water (Dawn dishwashing liquid works well)
followed with a rinse.

Latex base
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If it's dry, you're out of luck. Trim it off or go to the vet.

If you don't have a VERY mellow cat, go to the vet.

Aren't cats something?  My Pepper walked onto a cover of a red outdoor paint
can while I was outside painting the fence trim.  My fault for leaving it
there.  She left foot prints across the tile floor and onto a little of the
off white carpet.

So I washed off her paws with soap and water and then cleaned up the mess.
No further trouble until we started painting the deck.  I let the other cats
out while the job began but made Pepper stay in the house because she always
gets in everything.

Somehow when the job was done she had such a big glob of paint on her back
that at first I thought she had a tumor.  I got rid of as much paint on her
as I could and then my pet sitter also tried.  He is a vet tech.  About a
year later the last flake was gone.

She's now 14 years old and a couple years have gone by since the last paint
episode.  She's fine!

Hope your outcome is the same,

--
Barb
Of course I don't look busy,
I did it right the first time.

I'm thinking you should look for her red footprints and trace them to
wherever she got  painted and you can find out who did it. After you
get the stuff off her though, that's more important.