Winston's annual (annoying!) summer haircut
It's that time of year again, when Winston the smooshed-faced kitteh gets SHORN and is extremely annoyed by it. (Apparently, proximity to the knife on the counter is all part of Winston's REVENGE)
Check out the noodley "NYERHE!" maneuver:
And now... the entire ordeal... IN ACTION!
Rich and Winston, you can do no wrong, even with this, this, this... haircut...
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haha i'm sure he's meowing up a winstonesque storm that you can't hear over the razor.
Next to my kitties, Winston is my favorite!! Sometimes I think my Hemingway could take Winston on in a meow-off.
OH my god, there are so many great parts.....I love the gauntlets the trimmer is wearing to protect himself, love his approach of not freaking out Winston by restraining him but letting him take it at his own pace. Love the adorable drowned rat look, love the "prance" song, love how skinny Winston is without his extra fur, and I find it very cute that one of the people he owns thinks he will listen when he says "don't go down there" repeatedly. Winston raises the cuteness bar again....
There is no Winston there! Who knew he'd be such a skinny butt under those furs!
Warning! Nuff alert!
Fur works as an in-built airco. Shave it off, and kitteh will be warmer, not cooler! He'll have already shed his winter fur, the fur he has left is there for a reason.
/nuff
My first foray into nuffness: A carrier would make things easier, and safer.
I love winston, and I don't know why.
While I have to agree with the nuffs, this video is hilarious. He looks like he's wearing pants after his shave!!
Mr Yellow! By day, mild mannered animal beautician, by night world-class chemist saving the world one drop at a time.
Winston! Annoying feline at all times, winter spring summer and fall.
Those are some serious kitteh chaps if I've ever seen em.
The good, the bad, and the Winnie.
LAWL Winston's got parachute pants!
WEEEEEEEEENSTOOOOON!!!! has got a lion cut. That trimmer (Brooklyn car mechanic by day?) is a softie! "You gotta stop when he wants you to stop!" Phew, our summer installment of Winstonmania, just in time. Thanks Meg and Winston's peeps!
They don't appear to have done the arse end. My longhair had to have his,um,exit shaved because of, as the Aussie vet said 'Dags'
WTF, people shearing their cats, what's next? Tiny dogs in handbags?
Oh, right, we're there already.
Stop the madness, pretty please... This is so unnecessary it's ridiculous...
There is no way... NO WAY.. either of my cats would be that calm with the sound of the razor.
I love that occasional look he gets: "I am the CAT! You will RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!! . . . Why are you SMIRKING?"
Sometimes I wonder why cats think we do the things we do. A cat of my mother-in-law's once lost a claw due to circumstances involving a Rottie that never came near our property again. She was very proud of herself, but due to the bleeding and so forth we took her to the vet, where they put in some stitches (she had lost the entire claw, it left the premises in the Rottie's eyebrow) and wrapped her in sticky bandages right up to the elbow. When the time came for the bandages to be removed, we quickly realized that we needed an extra pair of hands and better scissors, so back to the vet we all went. The look on her face as the Evil Butt Probe and Needle Person carefully removed the bandages that had been driving her nuts for days was equal parts confusion and wonder. She kept peering into the vet's face, then down at her slowly reappearing leg, then back up at the vet. "Vet--helping. Gears--grinding--in--head. Does--not--compute." After the bandages were gone, she went hesitantly into her carrier with a backward glance at the vet (instead of her usual mad dash), as if to say, "So, are we done here, or . . . um . . . "
But, of course, the next time she saw the vet, she hated her guts.
“A trim, you sed.”
“Ull pay for dis.”
Nice story Jenny Islander.
I love that somebody said "dags".
My fav. bit was, wet paws, flop, flop, over the sholder.
I love Winton, but I will never understand why anyone would want to do such an UGLY thing to their cat.
I agree with Kzootie...that hair cut didn't do Winston any favors. He is a great cat and looks lovely on his own. I have a Maine Coone...and I would NEVER shave her. LEAVE WINSTON ALONE!!!!
Thank Ceiling Cat, something to make me laugh after watching that lion video.
Another day in the life of our Winnie. Maybe he gets hotspots sand this prevents them? Hair grows back.
He is our Winston and the att-i-tude remains.
Thank you for another slice-of-life from the Winston household.
Meow.
My BF's Persian also gets a lion cut in the summer because she gets horrible mats and won't sit still for grooming. She definitely prances afterwards. She loves it.
um, is that rich on the right in the second photo? i think HE might be teh cute, as well. :^[
I wanted to get my Maine Coon cat clipped for the summer, but the only groomer in town won't do it. They offered to shave her, but that's going too far.
It's the look of utter contempt on his face in the first picture that slays me. :)
OMG! Jenny Islander - I am over here LAWLing like a mad woman...the visual is keeling me!
"Evil Butt Probe and Needle Person"...BWAH!!!
1. don't shave cats
2. it's called a pet carrier
3. OMGWINSTONSQUEEEEE!!!!!!!
God I love this kitteh.
hahah Winston looks like a llama/lion.. hehee.. I had to do this for my cat too.. she would get way to hot underthat fur as she got older... and I understand about not having a cat carrier.. it would freak out my cat and she would get so stressed... I wuv you winny!!!
Poor skinny, smushface, fuzzlesski Winston! Poor BABY!!! 'Course, he looks none the worse for wear. And hungry as per the usual.
And for our next contestant, we have Winston the Cat, with his impersonation of MC Hammer singing "Can't Touch That."
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNSTOOOOOOONNNN!!!
Heh. "Sniffle break".
Elliottsmommy,I think you may be right about Rich being teh cute too. ;-)
First I thought, "Why is the groomer wearing wrist guards?" And then I thought, "Ooh, smart smart man ..."
oh, I just love winnie, he's just like "oh-mah dignatee, eet has all been shaved an washed off..."
Winston's thought of the day:
"I am highly pissed, and they will PAY!!"
My kitten, Zora, would NEVER sit still for that kind of abuse!! ESPECIALLY the bath! We got her a week ago and she had been an outside kitten, so we had to bathe her. HOLY COW! I never knew a half-pound kitten could fight so ferociously!!! She dang near managed to climb the porcelain tile wall of the tub enclosure and she DID manage to scale ME quite adeptly -- I've got the needle/claw marks on my shoulder and back to prove it!
PRANCE girl! LOL!
Winston's all "But Dad, I have to get down on the floor so I can reach the pedals! I can't drive if I can't reach the pedals!"
(I would like to point out that we don't actually see Winston in the car en route...so for all we know, he WAS in a carrier.)
And we need more Rudy videos.
Poor cat, what a horrible haircut
ZOMG don't get it wet!!!!11!
I wouldn't have thought it possible for Winnie's head to look any more round and bulbous. Or that he could be so, you know, not noisy.
My cat Pearl looked at this, looked at me, looked back at this, gave me the Death Stare, and loped off to gaze out the window.
She's probably going to eat my toes for laughing at Winston.
LimeyG, we used to have to wrap our wrists up to the elbow just to de-flea my dear departed Danny. (This was in the days before the blessed one-drop-on-the-neck stuff.)
There are reasons cats get shaved...I have a long haired cat who needs to get shaved once or twice a year because he gets very matted and has some unpleasantness in the bum area. I try to keep him brushed and clean but despite my best efforts he still needs a shave now and then. My cat unlike Winston needs to be sedated for the trip to the groomer. :(
"If any one of you mofos make a Christina Ricci joke, I swear to f'n god.."
When I worked as a vet tech, we'd sometimes have people who would bring their long haired kitties in for a dental cleaning and a shave (they were generally matted). Once the kitty was under general anesthesia, one tech would clip while the other did the dental. Um, shaving a cat is way more fun than you might think. It's especially satisfying to clip off big mats that you know were bothering the kitty.
He He!
Winnie has pantalons!!!!!
Word to the Rich!
Prance!
I love Winston! He's so skinny with his hair do! My cat has to get shaved because she is so FAT, she has to be stretched out so they can shave her fat rolls, but when it's all said and done, she can reach places she hasn't reached in a long time!
Himmies don't mat as much as Persians. A combing once or twice a week, although more often in shedding season, is enough to keep the coat lovely. Stop shaving Winston. As his expression plainly says, it's idiotic to shave him. As someone said earlier, that coat is there for a reason, even in summer. Use a long toothed comb and both Winston and the comber can enjoy the process.
Oh, Winston, you angry looking kitty, how I love thee. Always looks so furious!