Trimming/Shaving Thick Coat For Awful Georgia Summer

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Robert Cohen - 09 Jul 2006 01:23 GMT

My mixed breed long-hair, Beauty, is much better-off barbered,
especially in the 90+ degree
humidity.

It wasn't a bargain/cheap fur-cut; but the vet's assistant did a great
job.

Over $100.

My ole fatty kitty doesn't look "ratty," because the vet put her
asleep, and thus they were able to do some fairly attractive work in
comparison to a regular groomer's work

As requested, they did not trim the bushy tail, which is funny looking,
but not as funny if its fur had been trimmed short.

So, after the annual shot, and later us
rubbing-in some prescribed fairly expensive anti-flea stuff on the back
of Beauty's head et cetera, I'm not unsatisfied.

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Monique Y. Mudama - 09 Jul 2006 03:51 GMT

> My ole fatty kitty doesn't look "ratty," because the vet put her
> asleep, and thus they were able to do some fairly attractive work in
> comparison to a regular groomer's work

My poor Oscar looks a mess right now. A bunch of hair chopped from
near her butt (because she can't groom herself with the collar), the
injured paw is shaved, and there's a shaved patch on one of her arms
from the emergency vet. But her face is beautiful as ever, and her
little toeses on all but the injured paw. The injured paw is looking
better, but the pads are still pretty big and have "wrinkles" in them,
I guess because they've shrunk down from being extremely swollen to
only a little bit enlarged.

Did they put her under full anesthesia? I would be worried about
doing that unnecessarily, even though it's the only way Oscar could be
shaved safely (she's terrified of electric clippers, to the point of
biting down hard on me if I hold her, and scissors are only slightly
less scary).

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