It's hard to tell because black fur is low contrast, but it looks like "matting", so I hope the owners start brushing him properly.
He looks like he had to be sedated too. Which is probably a good idea when shaving any cat, really... mine had to have only a small patch shaved to monitor a lump (mystery lump, went away as quietly as it arrived) and she was not thrilled.
I will simply point out at this time: Angus likes being shaved. He tries to groom the person shaving him. He purrs and leans into the clippers.
(I think it helps that he's been shaved twice that I know of - once to get him de-filth-ified, which coincided the removable of all his mats with being clean and getting regular feedings, and once when it was 35 degrees out and he'd spent the last two days migrating to the coldest tile floors he could find and just not moving to avoid heatstroke. So he was ECSTATIC to have lost the coat.)
Yes, but your cat is a happy-go-lucky freak who will tolerate anything and everything monkeys want to do to him, including hanging him upside down by his ankles and swinging him around. I don't think he counts.
(Have you actually found anything Angus WON'T tolerate yet? Because trust me, I tried, but I only had two weeks. As his owners, obviously you have had much longer to get creative with this challenge.)
We recently adopted a 22-pound long-haired calico (who we named Queen Latifah, for her size and her sass), and determined (after discussion with a groomer) that the matting in her coat was beyond the capability off mere brushes -- including mats down to the skin -- so she got a lion cut as well. Floofy head, tail poof, and booties. I don't know how she took to the shaving itself, but in the aftermath, she really seems to like it! She honestly appears more content and comfortable now than when we got her, and as her coat grows out, we'll make sure to brush her regularly.
Neighbors of mine in the 90s, who already had three generic, rough-and-tough outdoor cats (long-haired things that fight with Raccoons), adopted their first and last breed cat, a badly inbred Persian-type with short, extremely thick fur, and a badly impacted muzzle - totally flat, couldn't breathe through its nose, tear ducts blocked, the whole shebang of inbreeding.
Their long-haired outdoor cats maintain their own coats (and each others) so they sort of assumed the short-haired Persian would be able to cope, or at least would be looked after by the other cats as much as they look after each other. The outdoor cats hated it, and with the squashed face (and stumpy limbs, and I think it had a back problem) it was totally unable to keep up with its own grooming.
It took them a while to realize their short-hair had a matting problem, and then they had to go take it for a lion cut and a long angry lecture by the vet. The persian was irritable before, but it was pretty miserable-acting after the cut until its fur grew in. Hid in the basement.
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Date: 2012-04-26 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-26 02:36 pm (UTC)-- Steve hopes that whatever condition that required a total body shave gets better soon for the poor kitty.
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Date: 2012-04-26 03:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-26 03:17 pm (UTC)He looks like he had to be sedated too. Which is probably a good idea when shaving any cat, really... mine had to have only a small patch shaved to monitor a lump (mystery lump, went away as quietly as it arrived) and she was not thrilled.
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Date: 2012-04-26 03:26 pm (UTC)(I think it helps that he's been shaved twice that I know of - once to get him de-filth-ified, which coincided the removable of all his mats with being clean and getting regular feedings, and once when it was 35 degrees out and he'd spent the last two days migrating to the coldest tile floors he could find and just not moving to avoid heatstroke. So he was ECSTATIC to have lost the coat.)
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Date: 2012-04-26 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-26 08:49 pm (UTC)(Have you actually found anything Angus WON'T tolerate yet? Because trust me, I tried, but I only had two weeks. As his owners, obviously you have had much longer to get creative with this challenge.)
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:33 pm (UTC)But that's about it?
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Date: 2012-04-26 11:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-27 12:06 am (UTC)Before:
Shortly after:
And recently, very dignified:
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Date: 2012-04-27 12:04 pm (UTC)Their long-haired outdoor cats maintain their own coats (and each others) so they sort of assumed the short-haired Persian would be able to cope, or at least would be looked after by the other cats as much as they look after each other. The outdoor cats hated it, and with the squashed face (and stumpy limbs, and I think it had a back problem) it was totally unable to keep up with its own grooming.
It took them a while to realize their short-hair had a matting problem, and then they had to go take it for a lion cut and a long angry lecture by the vet. The persian was irritable before, but it was pretty miserable-acting after the cut until its fur grew in. Hid in the basement.