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05-18-2006

seasidestitcher

JCT

Wooly

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Wooly

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Posted by on May 18, 2006, 8:15 pm

A marine biologist in my wife's office must go to Hawaii for a week so we
are "dog sitting" her Chihuahua mix. But, spring is here, and the dog is
blowing her coat.

I took the dog out to the orchard and brushed her until there was a fine,
continuous mat of hair under the nectarines, under pears, under the pluots,
under the apple, and under the plums. That should keep the deer away. But,
hair is still coming off the dog. Every time I stroke her I get a wad of
hair. Too bad it is too short to spin and knit. It is just the right
length to fluffup and make a mess. Maybe, I can glue it to my bald head! :
0

Forget sheep, bison, and Bernese Mountain dogs. If you want lots of fiber
per pound of livestock, get a Chihuahua mix ! That much hair coming off that
little body violates every law of physics and biology that was ever in a
textbook.
I may take her down to the truck wash and see what kind of deal they will
give me or if they know she has so much fur that it will clog their sumps.
: )

(I have a special pet attachment for the vacuum cleaner, but it freaks her
out. It is just not worth scaring her like that, and I am not going to get
her retrained in the next few days.)

Up to my ears in blond lint. The only good thing is that it matches the
carpet.

Aaron

Posted by on May 18, 2006, 9:49 pm

Oh the joys of shedding pooches! My last dog used to shed year round
but the spring and fall were the worst. If she would curl in a ball
and then get up, you would see a round circular shape of hair!! She
was a shepard mix. I used to leave the hair outside too, I had heard
that some animals will use it for nests. Not quite sure if that is
true, but did it anyway.

My dog actually liked to be "vaccuumed" she would sit there and
stretch and stretch her back. It sure did help too.

Diane
(who misses her Misty)

Posted by JCT on May 19, 2006, 9:26 am

We used to have a Samoyed who shed his undercoat in the spring. It was
the softest stuff imaginable. I actually saw birds come down and pick
it up. I can imagine the soft next lining it would make for the little
baby birds. I know that people do spin that stuff and I have seen a
cardigan knit from it - I often thought it was worth learning to do but
when I had him I was still working long hours and never got to it.
Wooly, do you spin the " Elkhound fuzz"? I suspect it is similar in
texture from another northern breed - but haven't gotten close enough
to one of them to see.

Posted by Wooly on May 19, 2006, 10:17 am

forth :

>We used to have a Samoyed who shed his undercoat in the spring. It was

>the softest stuff imaginable.

>Wooly, do you spin the " Elkhound fuzz"? I suspect it is similar in

>texture from another northern breed - but haven't gotten close enough

>to one of them to see.

Yep, I do. I blend it with fine wool with my handcards and spin a
long-draw woolen yarn. The Elkie fuzz is finer and shorter than most
quality angora fiber, possibly as nice as cashmere, and a whole lot
warmer. Elkie and Samoyed/Malamute down are essentially the same when
it comes to spinning.

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Posted by Wooly on May 18, 2006, 10:07 pm

>A marine biologist in my wife's office must go to Hawaii for a week so we

>are "dog sitting" her Chihuahua mix. But, spring is here, and the dog is

>blowing her coat.

>Forget sheep, bison, and Bernese Mountain dogs. If you want lots of fiber

>per pound of livestock, get a Chihuahua mix ! That much hair coming off that

>little body violates every law of physics and biology that was ever in a

>textbook.

> I may take her down to the truck wash and see what kind of deal they will

>give me or if they know she has so much fur that it will clog their sumps.

>: )

I have a thing called a ZoomGroom. The cats take it in turn to be
abused by me with the thing. Today's victim produced almost 3oz of
the nastiest fur imaginable. Nothing remotely attractive about the
stuff.

But the three 8-gallon bags of Elkhound fuzz are a different story...

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