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CAT SHAVER MYSTERY [FT414:4]

The UK seems to be in the grip of an outbreak of cat shaving, with “Phantom Cat Shavers” on the prowl in both Kent and Coventry. Coventry experienced a flurry of cat shaving in 2021, after which all went quiet, but the Shaver appears to have returned at the start of 2023, when a cat named Tallulah arrived home with the Shaver’s trademark perfect square cut into her stomach fur. “‘I thought maybe she licked the fur off her stomach or she had itchy skin,” said Tallulah’s owner, Bonnie Towe, “but once we lay her back we noticed it was quite a big patch and it was a perfectly cut

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