It Happened To My Cat

So everyone's received those funny emails of cats who are wet or have horrible haircuts, etc. I always kind of wondered if they were photoshopped or something. Well, last week I discovered they were real.



Poor Zorba had mats on her two hindquarters. When I took him to the vet just to have them check to make sure Zorba didn't have some major, awful, horrible disease, they said that I could try and cut them out myself, but knowing Zorba's history (I got bit, four incision marks on my wrist trying to cut one mat out earlier in the week), they offered to cut them out for me. Except that some of the mats were so bad that they would need to shave them off. "Zorba will look really bad if we do this though," Dr. B said. "Have you ever heard of a Lion Cut?"

Well, I hadn't but I could imagine.

Suggesting that he would look much "better" with a Lion Cut than with huge bald spots, I conceeded to the shave.

When we got home, Potter puffed up all his fur and hissed and spat. Janie began jumping and racing and chasing Zorba. They thought I had brought home a new cat...



Truthfully, Zorba is really soft now, and one can't help but try and pet him. My new roommate has been trying to refrain, knowing the potential ramifications. but it's hard. He's just so cute...