Shyans New Do

What started as 'no big deal', soon ended in 'what were you thinking?'.

She asked if she could go downstairs (the basement) to play with Shyan (the cat). "Sure", I said.

About 15 minutes later or so, I went down to switch out laundry. Nothing abnormal here, Josie was petting Shyan - all was right with the world.

Then, out of nowhere, she says "Mommy, Shyan was stuck in pokey sharp things and has bruises all over him".

"What?" I asked, not having paid complete attention to her statement.

She repeated...hmm that doesn't seem quite right. While the basement isn't clean and open, it certainly isn't dangerous...and how exactly do you see bruises on a cat????

I called Shyan over looking for bumps (seemed like a reasonable explanation for the "bruises"), I wasn't finding any, but noticed that his fur was all tufted - like he was pet going in the wrong direction.

As I attempted to pet his fur in the correct direction to get it to lie down...something wasn't right. I didn't put my finger on it at first. Then there was a light bulb that was all too bright....

I looked at her and asked "Do you have sissors down here????"
She looks down "yes"
"Did you cut his hair?" My question was answered by the little yellow pieces of hair on the basement floor.
Again looking down "yes"
"Why would you do that?" I honestly could not figure out the answer to this question. But at this point another alarm was going off in my head. DING! DING! DING! She just made up a story and LIED to me. LIED to me... Because up to this point, I was having a genuinenly hard time not laughing at the whole site.

"You just LIED to me???"
Alittle shocked at getting caught... "Yes"
"Why? Why would you do that?" Then as an after thought "go to your room while I decide your punishment" I used to hate that as a kid and it was all I could come up with.

While the act of cutting the cats' hair was odd to say the least - that didn't really bother me... the cat looks a tad funny, but apparently didn't mind the attention and thankfully she was using blunt tipped sissors.
The lieing about it is what through me for a complete loop, the cover-up....

In case you are wondering, she was sufficiently punished... but we won't go into that here.