My cat has very long hair. I believe that she has Maine Coon bloodlines in her ancestry because of some of her fur characteristics. She has a thick under coat, ear hair/tufts, and long fur between her toes. The thickness of the fur on her haunches is incredible--I believe she could sit on an iceberg for hours and never feel the cold. And this is where we have a bit of a problem.
There are times when the cat has litterbox 'issues.' Her haunch fur will 'catch' her output and it will stick. Of course, this means I have to clean this up as best I can--and that means cutting the fur to get rid of the mess. And this is the situation I found myself in earlier today. Cutting the cat's fur is NOT something that can be done by one person, so I have to have K around to perform this task. K held the cat and I began to cut her fur. After I took care of the problem, I decided to do a little more trimming in order to keep this same thing from happening any time soon. I just TRIMMED a bit more of the fur around her butt. I DIDN'T shave her or cause her any amount of discomfort or embarrassment. But when I was done, the look she gave me said, "Learn to sleep with one eye open, cause I KNOW where the scissors are!" Thank goodness she doesn't have opposable thumbs! :D
Learning To Sleep With One Eye Open
