Well, call me a sucker, i've got yet another foster baby at the moment. She's a skinny little girl, her name is Persia.
She came into the shelter recently and was covered head to toe in the most aweful matts i've EVER seen (and believe me, i've seen TONS!) We measured the length of the matt from skin to end of fur and it was over 6" in some areas
It was soo attached to her skin that we had not choice but to use the razor and scissors and even rip some of it off in some places. We worked on her for close to 3-4 hours and she had to be sedated because it was so bad. There was poop matted on her to the point that it was almost calcified looking...she has urine burns and Lord knows what else
I accidently cut her once in one spot and had to glue her skin back together. I felt soo horrible about it too- but you just can not see at all on matts that bad. I was using every technique in the book - finally found one that worked enough to get the majority of the matts off. My coworker accidently nicked her twice so in addition to the matts she also has a few minor nicks
(i feel soo bad about it- but even after having a great deal of grooming experience- it's almost impossible not to accidently nick one that bad.)
This poor cat is skin and bones too- she's incredably underweight.
Due to her low weight/bloodpressure too she almost didn't make it out from anestesia.- we almost lost her twice and had to give her reversal and cpr at one point. Thankfully though now she's FINALLY waking up. I'm keeping her warm and watching her closely. I took her home from work with me for the night (or at least until she's coherant enough to be ok).
I'll have to get pictures of her later on- this poor girl is soo sad. Keep your fingers crossed that when all of this is over with- she can find a wonderful home soon.
She came into the shelter recently and was covered head to toe in the most aweful matts i've EVER seen (and believe me, i've seen TONS!) We measured the length of the matt from skin to end of fur and it was over 6" in some areas
I accidently cut her once in one spot and had to glue her skin back together. I felt soo horrible about it too- but you just can not see at all on matts that bad. I was using every technique in the book - finally found one that worked enough to get the majority of the matts off. My coworker accidently nicked her twice so in addition to the matts she also has a few minor nicks
This poor cat is skin and bones too- she's incredably underweight.
I'll have to get pictures of her later on- this poor girl is soo sad. Keep your fingers crossed that when all of this is over with- she can find a wonderful home soon.