At least it's a nice, even cut
When I was young we adopted a cat that had been abandoned up by the cottage in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario - a beautiful longhaired persian. Unfortunately her hair was so badly snarled that the solid lumps were actually pulling up her flesh in places - truly a horrible state for such a fine animal to be in. So the vet cut through the lumps and shaved the areas down to the skin. Cinnamon wound up with sort of a Tottenhot effect, or something you'd see on a mutant cow - long white fur in areas and raw pink skin in others, all random around her body. She had issues with that look for a while.