Before and After

Zoe is a long-haired Persian. Or something. We really don’t know who his daddy was, or his mother for that matter. That makes him a bastard, a condition he strives to live up to. When he grooms himself, he ends up with furballs, the only kind of balls he has now. Later, of course, he throws them up dramatically.

His hair was perfect

We give Zoe a buzz cut in the summer. The groomer leaves long hair on his head and tail, which gives him a kind of leonine look. Or possibly a punk look.

Cool, eh?

He is rightly embarrassed.

We have dozens, scores, hundreds of pictures of Zoe, so we thought it would be easy to find a picture of him standing up with long hair to have a direct comparison to him standing with short hair. But it turns out that Zoe spends virtually all of his time lying down. We think he was standing up in this picture because the floor was cold.