When an old man was taken to a nursing home a shocking sight crawled from under the bed.

The cat, named Hidey because she hid under the bed, looked like a pack of rats were eating her alive. But it was her own her fur matted in sections six to eight inches in length with feces and other debris tangled in each section. It wasn't that the kitty's fur grew eight inches long, it's that her hair began to get matted and then any hair that she shed tangled within the matted hair to make the long, filthy knots.

She was taken to an animal shelter; It took the shelter staff several hours to shave off two pounds of Hidey's matted fur. They sedated her for the procedure to minimize her stress and to make her as comfortable as possible.

Needless to say, Hidey looks like a brand new cat after her trim. And she has been staying with a relative of her elderly owner since leaving the hospital. She did was she used to do, hide under the bed, at first but now she is warming up to people.