This girl has been with  us a long time- she has lived under the house for over ten years following being dumped here in a canvas bag on our porch. I took her in, got her spayed and when I came home with her, she managed to escape the carrier and duck under our home. Never been able to successfully capture her until Friday night. She didn’t look right and wasn’t eating and was matted to beat heck!

As you can tell, she is partly Persian. It took us about three hours to remove all the intrusive mats on her:

Knowing that the clippers would get hot if we used them and I risked cutting her with scissors to remove this, we opted to use a seam ripper to take out these mats. It works great, and once you loosen up the root of the mat, you can easily just pull the whole thing up without injury to the cat.

She has been to the vet. She weighs 19 pounds, he puts her age over 20 and except for a lot of constipation and parasites, an URI and a small conjuctivitus battle, she is doing good. She did really well at the vet- although her hiss can be quite intimidating! Someone who I rescued a few cats from in the past was over at the clinic when I was there and she put some money down on our account! After bloodwork, exam, x-rays and medicine we only owe $38.00 on the bill. I was so grateful beyond words. Allura is on vera-flux for four more days and was given an enema and some Profender. Hopefully in a few days, she will start eating on her own and I can integrate her into the house with the others.