Knit a
sweater.
Just kidding. Seriously, though, if
someone says something to you
about being covered in cat hair,
you could just wear it with pride,
as one Facebook fan suggests. “I
carry it with me … all over me,
even after I lint brush, I still have
it … these five are killing me with
fur,” wrote Pullena Pushy. “But I
just say, ‘I’m the crazy cat lady. Of
course I’m covered in fur. Be happy
I’m not knitting you a cat-fur
sweater … ’cause I could.’”
Standing in front of the furless,
well-dressed woman at the airport,
I could have been embarrassed,
but I chose to embrace the joys of
having cats and, with a chuckle, I
just said: “Well, this is their protest
for my going out of town, and at
least I get to take part of them
with me. They’re so worth any
inconvenience of having cat hair
on things!”
Love your
Lint roLLer.
save it for the
birds, who can
use it to buiLd
their nests.
Siberians have down hair —
dense, very short hairs that
are close to the skin to
protect it from abrasion.
Use a lint roller on your
clothing before going out
and prior to washing your
clothes. Get rid of as much
cat hair as possible before
sticking clothes in the wash,
or you will end up with
thousands of cat-hair beads
stuck to clothing and in the
washing machine.
If your clothes are
covered in cat hair and it
would take hundreds of
lint roller sheets to de-fur
them, stick your clothes
in the dryer for 10 minutes
with a dryer sheet. The cat
hair will end up in the dryer’s lint catcher.
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Susan Logan-McCracken
and her husband are brushing their two cats, Sophie
and Maddie, more regularly
now that they have found a
brush that their kitties love.
Their Southern California home has less
cat hair floating around in it now.
I’m not kidding. I was surprised to see several of our Facebook fans suggest this.
“I saved the cat hair after I combed my
cats,” wrote Pam Kirby on our Facebook
page. “I put it in a net-type onion bag.
I tied the bag on a branch of a tree in
my backyard. Birds came to the bag and
removed cat hair for their spring nests. I
have found old bird nests that were lined
in the warm fur. Several of my neighbors
have found nests in their trees with the
same fur lining.”
Several other Facebook fans chimed
in to say that they collected their cats’
hair for the same purpose or that they
thought this was a great idea. Who knew?
