Frightened
The appropriately named, Hidey, named for its excellent hiding skills, had been completely forgotten about and trapped inside pounds of its own matted fur. Its aging owner thought it had run away a very long time ago. “Hidey was really overweight, so that makes it harder for [cats] to groom themselves, and that’s when you see matting happen,” Western PA Humane Society Senior Marketing Communications Manager Caitlin Lasky said. How to deal with Hidey’s dreadlocks was the next question.
Frightened
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Hidey’s appearance had the whole vet team shocked. “They hadn’t seen anything like that,” said Caitlin Lasky, who is the senior marketing communications manager for Western PA Humane Society. “Even looking online, I had a hard time finding anything similar, so it’s definitely a unique case.”
When an animal is in such a severe condition there is only one way to handle it. The team administered the general anesthetic to Hidey and began the long, slow process of cutting away the masses of hair.
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