I know how you feel. Sadly, Shoe there in the picture is deceased.
It's a perfect picture for the black cat thread.
She is beautiful, her fur is very healthy looking
@MServant - I know what you mean and I too prefer her tousled look. However, as Norachan says, she needs to have the tangles and the leaves and seeds and whatever else combed out of her fur, she wouldn't look nice if she was all matted. My Persian is the same: she looks too tame when her fur is all slicked down but it only takes one big shake and her fur stands up and out and then she looks a little ferocious in miniature, if you can imagine a Persian looking ferocious he he he.
@Norachan Carpet is super gorgeous but I'm sorry, despite all your effort and Carpet's very tame and tolerant behaviour - I prefer her raggle-taggle tumleweed look!I bet she feels more comfy without all those tangles though.
She looks like Chewbacca in the middle picture. She truly is one of a kind!!!Carpet says thank you for all the nice comments. It's taken me a year of very careful petting with the soft grooming brushes to get to the stage where she's comfortable being groomed. Last autumn she got loads of grass seeds tangled up in her belly fur and I had to trim the mats out. I'm hoping we can avoid that this autumn.
@misterwhiskers
I really don't know how you'd describe her colouring. She looks black at times, but has grey hair on her belly and looks a reddish brown colour in some lights. Her three sisters and her mother are all ticked tabby. Here are some other pictures of her in different light.
