WASHINGTON — Anyone who has owned a cat knows how persnickity they can be. They don’t like to be cornered, pet, picked up or even brushed when they don’t want to be.
So who is shaving the cats in this British Columbia neighborhood?
One family is baffled that their 12-year-old cat, Tabby, has been coming home with parts of her fur completely shaved over the past few months. According to a story in the Campbell River Mirror, Jo Jo Yarjau found her cat with a “perfect square” shaved on her belly after being outside. The cat was irritable, fussy and not herself. This happened two more times, with the last one the worst: the cat’s nipples were cut.
“People have been saying to just keep her inside, said Yarjau. “Well, you can’t do that with an outside cat. She’ll go crazy. She’s 12. You can’t just do that all of a sudden.”
Yarjau, 18, put out a call on social media and learned that the same thing was happening to other cats in her otherwise quiet neighborhood.
“We only let her out at night now,” she tells the local paper, “because it’s never happened at night. She’s not allowed to wander during the day anymore, because one day she just might not come back.”
Yarjau wonders how the rogue groomer is getting at her beloved pet in the first place. “She won’t come up to people. She’s not one of those cats,” Yarjau says. “Whoever it is must be luring her with food so they can do this to her.”
