Delilah - Moments after the crime was discovered. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Samson - the injured party.
Picture it. Sleeping cat. Four year old with a paper scissors.
Do I need to explain further?
To be fair, Zizou slept right through the whole business, and doesn’t even seem to have noticed that he now has designer stubble….
Four year old was suitably horrified when he realised the extent of the clipping – he just kind of got carried away. Even did the eyebrows. Boy, did he bawl his eyes out when he was discovered. Zizou even slept through that. Cats.
aggggggh!
Tell me about it! Never a dull moment here. Oh, for a dull moment!!
You must be really cut up over the shear audacity of the child!
Such cutting remarks…Catty, almost.
(For anyone who doesn’t know, Rockin’ the Purple hosted a bit of a pun-athon last night. I think it’s straying over here now…)
Oh NO!
Oh yes….
The Vet did something similar years back when Julius had an abcess on a cheek. He was lopsided for a while, but otherwise unharmed.
I think it offends us more than them. They’re not so hung up on their exquisite beauty – they just take it for granted.
Oh my. And he slept right through it?
It seems like maybe you, Stompy Stripey, and Zizou need a cocktail or two. (Of the alcoholic type, not the feathered type.)
Like a baby. And well after the incident too, which is how I got pics.
Yikes. Well, it looks like your four-year-old is suitably repentant. When I was his age, I contented myself with cutting My Little Pony hair. When my grandmother was taking care of our cat Ramses while we lived in China, she used to trim his whiskers because she thought they were too long. We tried to explain that whisker-trimming is not necessary for felines.
I keep sneaking looks at the photo. I wonder how long before they grow back? You’ll have to document the process. Did he get both sides?
Both sides and the eyebrows…..
My human pays to have her eyebrows waxed. Maybe “Delilah” has found a calling…
Waxers and tatooers…..and dentists. Who else would you pay to inflict pain on you!
Trim his whiskers?? A grown-up doing this???
Yes. Horrifying, isn’t it? I’m pretty sure she never cut them this short.
Aww. Poor little tyke.
Oh my! Can’t stop laughing through my horrified gasps!
You should have tried to keep a straight face for long enough to scold the four year old. Daddy just collapsed in a heap…. I think we feel far more like it is a mutilation than poor Zizou does. He just doesn’t care, fortunately!
Oh crumbs! I suppose some will grow ahead of others as I know cats moult their whiskers, but not a good look!
My grandparents’ cat always had trimmed whiskers from their labrador cleaning up around her face!
Hello Isobel and/or Cat. We had our suspicions that he previously trimmed some of Toko’s, but it didn’t leave her with designer stubble….Still, the good news is that they DID grow back. He looks quite Robert De Niro now…Seems to be a phase of that in our house right now…
Purely in the name of science, would you let us know if Zizou gets stuck in anything while his whiskers are short? I’ve always wondered if that’s just an old wives’ tale…
I asked Oldcat about that very thing recently. He thinks it’s untrue. Hope so – don’t want Zizou caught down any rabbit holes!
Rabbits live in holes?
Yip. Unless they can borrow a burrow. Or get hatched in a hutch.
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