Southfields Hydrotherapy & Grooming, Chiswick, London

I took my long haired cat to be groomed here as she was finding the heat difficult. I was quite anxious about leaving her for a few hours - and it turns out I had good reason to be.

I’m sure this place is good for dogs, but they really have no idea at all about cats. Her nerves were frazzled and so were mine after I first saw her.

I asked them to cut her fur quite short & for them to leave a tuft at the end of her tail like a lion (don’t laugh!) My poor girl came back to me looking more like a squirrel - they had shaved all of her body hair off apart from her tail & her head & her paws up to her body. She looks ridiculous!

They had obviously used clippers on her as her nipples were bleeding where they had been caught in the clippers. Her fur was not evenly cut & the fur hadn’t been blended so it looked like she was wearing a big furry comedy hat! She really did look ridiculous & I can’t imagine letting an animal leave looking like that - but they did.

Anyway if you have a cat, avoid this place like the plague. I’m certainly not letting them lay any fingers on my cat again!