Mr. Merlin has stud tail :(

[cassiesmom]

Dear sweet Merlin, how is your tail today?

[slick]

Well, all I can tell you is what happened on Sunday. I do have pictures but it's such a pain to post them because it takes FOREVER to load them on photobucket.

Anyway, I was hoping I could get him all shaved but unfortunately my lovesick, mushy Merlin turns into a wild kitty when being worked on. Both the groomer and myself sustained some slicing and dicing even though he was "under the influence". So we only got part of his tummy and all of his tail shaved.

His little rat tail has black marks all over it - looks like blackheads. I've been cleaning it twice a day with Hydrogen Peroxide in the hopes to clean it up and even then, he's not that cooperative.

I'll try and upload some pictures tonight, but no promises. I need to spend time with my beloved treadmill.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Slick, I'm sorry to hear that Merlin didn't want to cooperate. I can relate because my very friendly Sky turns into a vicious cat when I try to trim his nails and he's also a bad cat at the groomers. I just can't understand how the sweetest cats can turn into the wildest cats at times.

I'm actually taking Storm, Sky, and Ziggy to the groomers this Sat. morning for their annual lion cuts. This is the only groomers,other than a mobile one, that I know of that will even work on cats. The owner knows how to work with them and she takes her time and does a little at a time so I'll drop them off at 10am and it'll probably be at least 4-5 hours before they're ready to be picked up.

They do muzzle them so they won't get bitten. They also don't believe in drugging them. I've been told that Ziggy is very easy to do probably because she's so scared. Storm and Sky will hiss, growl, and try to bite. Last year they told me that every time they tried to shave Sky, he would start peeing. Talk about embarrassing. They had to then put him in a sink to shave him so if he peed it would just go down the drain. I sure hope that all of my cats behave themselves this year.

I hope that the hydrogen peroxide will do the trick for Merlin's stud tail. At least he was able to have his tail shaved so you can see what's going on with it. I look forward to seeing some pictures of him. You know you can always attach them instead of using photobucket.