Why, when you shave your cat, does the hair grow back a different color?

Be aware that if you attempt to clip your cat’s hair, it may grow back a different color or texture. Tigger’s new shave job will still resemble his previous coat, but it may cause his undercoat to be thicker and his lines to be a bit less dramatic. Shaving Tigger may result in stimulation of an atypical coat pattern or change the normal three-staged life cycle of the hair follicle. I’ve slowly noticed that Seamus has less dramatic tabby lines after all my clip jobs. Don’t get too excited – you can’t make Tigger the tabby into a blond Himalayan.



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