Police are investigating reports of cats being shaved without their owners' consent. 
 
 The Waynesboro Police Department says it has received complaints from multiple neighbors in the Tree Streets Inn area of pet cats being shaved in their underbelly and/or groin area. 
 
 Police say they initially suspected proactive citizens were taking the animals to get spayed or neutered, but that theory was disproved when the same cats were shaved multiple times. 
 
 Authorities tell NBC29 that these cats are not feral, are well-kept and well-groomed, wear collars, and are clearly pets. 
 
 
 
 The Waynesboro Police Department knows of this happening to at least seven cats. 

 Maia Oden said somebody abducted her cat and then shaved the bottom of it. 
 
 Now, she is concerned and wants to find out who did it. She said it happened to her neighbors cats several months ago and now hers just a few weeks ago. 
 
 "He's real skittish and he feels really weird around people," said Oden. "And something's happened to him and so we looked and he's been shaved underneath." 
 
 She has put up these signs in her neighborhood along Maple Avenue in Waynesboro, warning others about it. 
 
 She said whomever is doing this needs to be caught. 
 
 "Yeah, someone needs to be caught and people are more aware so they can watch for it and keep it from happening in their neighborhoods," Oden said. 
 
 WHSV checked in with Waynesboro Police Department and an official said it is on their radar, but right now, they believe it could have been somebody checking to see if the cats were spayed or neutered. Police have not determined if or what crime is being committed. 
 
 If you have any information, call the Waynesboro Police Department at 540-942-6675.
– Someone is shaving cats in Virginia, and police and pet owners alike are at a loss. The Roanoke Times reports at least seven cats in a Waynesboro neighborhood have been shaved, apparently with some type of razor, since December. The cats are being shaved on their lower abdomens and groin areas, according to WVIR. That originally led police to believe someone was abducting the cats and getting them spayed or neutered. However, that appears to not be the case, as some cats have been shaved multiple times. While the incidents stretch back months, the shavings were just reported to police this week. At least two cat owners have gone to the cops, but no one seems to have seen anyone potentially responsible for the bizarre crimes (and police aren't even sure a crime has been committed). The cats that have been shaved are clearly pets and were wearing collars. While the cats weren't physically harmed in any way, one owner tells WHSV that since being shaved her cat has been "real skittish and he feels really weird around people." Cat owners have put up flyers around the neighborhood warning other residents.