See my beautiful fluffy dog in my icon? We have to have his hair cut every 5 weeks because he doesn't moult. Well for some reason this month his hair got really badly matted. We could not get a comb or a brush through it no matter how hard we tried. The lady at the grooming place said it may have been that he got wet - that can cause it if you don't blow dry him afterwards. Yeah, like I have time for that. (It takes nearly an hour!) Anyway, we decided the only thing we could do was have it all chopped out and he would look silly for a month, or it would be an ongoing problem.
I really was not prepared for the result!
Poor Olly! We are calling him Sean (Shorn) the rat until it grows back!