The morning began by trying to round up #thisiscat #alsoknownasjeff for a trip to the groomer. He had some quite significant mats on his back legs, and a few near his tail. He was not amenable to me removing them. At all. Anyway, on the first attempt at wrangling him, he escaped the holding room, ran under my bed (where he doesn’t really fit), resisted being pushed out from under, almost lost his voice from all the hissing, and held us off.

Phillip and I were very patient. He eventually emerged from under the bed, and made his way to the kitchen. “AH HA!” we said, “We can get hm now!” We had to move all of the chairs, and also the table, and then, the hilarity began.

Phillip (wearing the special cat grabbing gloves), was finally able to pick up Jefferson Cat. As he did, Jeff’s bladder let loose, and a very healthy, non-stop stream of pee accompanied poor Cat into the carrier. As we were already late, we kinda left Neal to deal with the clean-up. Upon arrival to the groomer, I explained what happened, and asked for the bedding to be tossed. Luckily, I had a spare little rug for the trip home.

Due to Cat’s nervousness, it was decided he would be sedated for his salon services. This was possible, because the groomer we chose works with our veterinarian’s office. For a cat who is not used to such things, I was happy to have that option for him.

Many hours later, I got the call he was ready to come home…yay!! He was trimmed (only the matted area), brushed, bathed, nails done, and ears cleaned. Soooo handsome! On the trip home, about half-way-ish, I started to notice something wasn’t quite right. There was a smell coming from the carrier… Ugh. Jefferson Cat shat himself whilst on the way home. Seriously.

We arrived at home, went directly into the bathroom, where Phillip (again wearing the special cat grabbing gloves) had to hold him, whilst I (wearing regular nitrile gloves), had to bathe him. Jefferson Cat, First of His Name, Duke of Puffington, Lord of the Glorious Tails, Earl of Floof, will not be speaking to us for a very long time.

We’ll see where this takes us…