And you thought YOUR cat shed a lot? As MSNBC’s Chris Matthews would say: “HA!” Meet Colonel Meow who has set a new Guiness World record as the world’s hairiest cat:
Normally this could be cat-astophic or hair-raising in a pet — but in this case the owner can just brush that off since as Daffy Duck could say, “Hair raising hair shmazing, he set a world record!” And there is lot of charm and character in that face.
Colonel Meow, a Himalayan-Persian cross-breed from Los Angeles, is officially the world’s hairiest feline.
The two-year-old, whose nine-inch coat has to be brushed three times a week, will appear in Guinness World Records 2014 after three vets analysed samples of his fur to crown him hairiest of all.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.