Daily Archives: Tue - 19 August 2025

19Aug25: Andy works on the mats, too…

Andy has his method.
He isolates the mat.
Of course, he watches me, too…
…in case I want to get involved again.
He licks at it.
He digs deep with his teeth…
Then he pulls up on the mat, eating any hair he loosens.

(I try to remove as much of that loose hair as possible  before he breaks away from me.)
Of course, he continues to watch me in case I move toward him!

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This is a dressmaker’s seam ripper. I loosened some of the mats with it for Andy. That makes it easier for him to remove more of mats using his lick-bite-and -pull-up technique.  

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Here’s a closer look at the working end of the seam ripper. Yes, that pointed end is something one has to be aware of when using it on Andy. The cutting edge is so sharp, however, that it goes through the mat without pulling on Andy’s hair so much it alarms him. I have blunt-end scissors in the cat grooming set that might be safer to use, but they don’t penetrate really thick mats without Andy becoming alarmed. They still work better and safer on smaller mats.

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Today’s post is in black and white because of the impossibility of color correcting photos that were very dark in their original state.