<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the Daily Mail (London, England) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757610/Close-shave-Matt-Cat-Neglected-moggy-feeling-purrfect-seriously-ill-mass-matted-fur.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757610/Close-shave-Matt-Cat-Neglected-moggy-feeling-purrfect-seriously-ill-mass-matted-fur.html</a></div><div> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close shave for Matt the Cat! Neglected moggy feeling purrfect again after being found seriously ill and with mass of matted fur </h1><div><br></div><ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Moggy was found abandoned in box on side of road in July with horrendously matted fur and teeth rotting away</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">He was rushed to Well Animal Clinic in north London, where vets sheared him like a sheep and </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">rehydrated</span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> him</span></strong></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Sadly, they also had to pull out most of his teeth and wire his fractured lower jaw back together after years of neglect</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>After weeks of recovery and a new jumper to keep him warm, he's now happy again after being adopted by the vet</strong></font></li><li class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><font style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Vet, Christian Le Van, said 'The transformation has been amazing - he's become a real celebrity at the practice'</strong></font></li></ul><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When Matt the Cat was found abandoned in a box on the side of the road in July - he was too sick to eat, and his fur was so long that it required emergency surgery to shear it all off.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The neglected moggy, found on Kilburn High Road, north London, was rushed to the nearby Well Animal Clinic where vets set about removing his horrendously matted coat.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They also had to fix his broken jaw and remove most of his teeth as they were badly rotted away - but the animal has since made a full recovery and been adopted by the clinic's vet, who calls him a 'celebrity at the practice'. </font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vets sedated the Persian cat and set about the task of shearing him like a sheep with clippers - removing so much fur it filled two plastic bags.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unrecognisable from the animal that was rushed in, the moggy was captured groggily awakening on the operating table, next to a huge ball of fur, which vets jokingly heaped into a ball and gave eyes. </font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><img src="cid:5957A8BD-492C-42D7-98BE-2D5B1C667B57" alt="image1.jpeg" id="5957A8BD-492C-42D7-98BE-2D5B1C667B57"></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After bravely pulling through, Matt was nursed back to health by the team at Well Animal Clinic in West Hampstead, north west London.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His coat will take a few months to regrow so he has been wearing a jumper knitted for him by the mother of one of the practice's receptionists.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And rather than being rehomed, Matt has been adopted by vet Christian Le Van and his family, who live above the surgery.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christian, 38, said: 'Matt arrived at our practice a couple of months ago in a terrible state. He had been rescued by the RSPCA after being abandoned in a box on Kilburn High Road.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'His fur was so matted he couldn't do anything and his teeth were so rotted his jaw had fractured. He could barely eat or drink.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'He was really dehydrated and full of infection, and just in a horrendous condition. He could have died if he hadn't have been found.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We anaesthetised him and shaved off all his fur. I had to pull out most of his teeth because they were so rotten and then I wired his lower jaw back together.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'It was touch and go at that point. Matt needed intensive care and had to be fed through a syringe so we kept him in for a few weeks.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'In the end my wife and I decided to keep him ourselves. We already have three cats so it was no bother to us.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'It was then just a case of slowly nursing him back to health with good food and lots of rest.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The transformation has been amazing - in the last month or so his character has started to come out and he's getting much more bold.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'He's become a real celebrity at the practice. It will take about three more months before his hair is fully regrown again but he's doing ok considering we shaved him bald.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The mother of one of our receptionists knitted him a little jumper to keep him warm in the meantime, and it's noticeable how much happier he is with it on.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Matt looks comical and his story has had a happy ending but behind it all there's quite a serious case of neglect.</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We have to thank the RSPCA who brought Matt to us after rescuing him. They work very closely with them and they do fantastic work in our area.'</font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">--------------------</p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Celebrity cat: Matt, pictured in a jumper knitted by the practice receptionist's mother, has become extremely bold and is treated like a celebrity at the clinic<br><br></span><img src="cid:6B415E46-5596-442E-8AEA-86BF8A3050D0" alt="image1.jpeg" id="6B415E46-5596-442E-8AEA-86BF8A3050D0"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>