Harry’s Day at Groomzy

Harry is a 4-year-old domestic medium haired kitty who came into Groomzy's exclusive cat salon after recently being adopted by Jax. Known to Jax for a long time as a stray in the area. Harry was eventually taken to the vet by Jax (after a feed or two) to check if he was microchipped or not. To Jax’s surprise, he was not and from there he spent a fortnight at Lort Smith in North Melbourne to see if his original owners (if any) might claim him.

After two weeks and no one coming up to claim Harry, Jax chose to add an extra cat to her

household and adopt him. Nikki met Harry just 2 weeks later. (1)

Harry came to us because Jax noticed a build-up of dirt and oil on his coat, particularly at the base of his tail, and wanted to clean him up to give him a head start keeping himself clean as the build-up of dirt was getting too much for him to clean on his own. (2)

After having a conversation about what Jax would like, and taking into consideration it is still fairly cold and Harry hadn’t been groomed before, we opted for a comb clip, sanitary clip, belly shave and partial tail shave to clean a particularly greasy part of his coat. Nikki also shampooed, bathed, dried Harry. Every service includes an ear and eye clean, along with a nail clip that is standard for most grooms.

As Nikki started to shave the base of the tail where Harry’s greasy dirt was built up, Nikki noticed some bald patches on his skin which most likely occurred from excessive licking on his part.

Nikki carefully shaved the area and chose the appropriate amount of hair to shave off his tail.

Nikki did a clean shaved tail; free of the build-up of dirt and grease that was causing him problems.

After cleaning and bathing the skin on his tail now looks healthy and his hair is expected to regrow. He now has a pom pom tail.

We began to move onto shaving other areas of his body, paying particular attention to the sanitary area where a build-up of…. Gunk…. Needed removing.

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After performing the short shave on Harry’s sanitary area (inside back legs and around bum) and belly we began his comb clip across his main coat, leaving approximately 10mm of hair on his body.

And here is where Nikki made a BIG mistake….. she forgot to take more photos of this process to share with you, so here is just one of him mid-groom, taking a break and looking out the window.

After the clipping, bath and blow dry Harry was clean and looking beautiful!

Because the style of cut is a comb clip aka teddy bear shave and not a lion cut the fur is left longer on the main coat. It is shortened back but not shaved until the skin. As with every comb clip, the track marks left by the clippers will remain for 1-2 days but will soon dissolve, leaving a soft and velvety coat.

Harry was finally returned to his carrier and had a short car ride to return home to a warm house and long couch to stretch out on.

(Please note this photo of Harry was him relaxing on the couch before the groom!)