{"id":526,"date":"2010-11-09T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2010-11-09T19:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:13:30","slug":"where-crazy-cat-lady-and-fiber-obsession-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Where Crazy Cat Lady and Fiber Obsession Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t spend much time talking about Bear Kitty, but he’s really a very impressive cat.\u00a0 For one thing, on one body he manages to fit enough fur to cover 6 normal cats – his coat is almost as thick as a sea otter’s (and nearly as waterproof).\u00a0 This means he tends to shed…a lot.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to combat this problem, I decided to try getting a FURminator<\/a>.\u00a0 This is one of the most amazing grooming tools I’ve ever seen – every time I brush Bear Kitty with it, I get a literal pile of fur.\u00a0 Just one stroke of the brush (even after a full brushing just a couple days ago) gets an impressive amount of hair:<\/p>\n

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For a normal person, their reaction to a big pile of used cat hair would be “Ewww, gross.”<\/p>\n

For a fiber-obsessed person, however, the reaction might be the same as mine, which was, “Hrm, that looks an awful lot like a free source of fiber….”<\/p>\n

So, for the last couple months, I’ve been collecting the hair I brush off in a bag with the intention of spinning it into some kind of yarn.\u00a0 What I’m going to do with the yarn once I have it is unclear at best, but I seem to think this is a good idea – I’ve started spinning it:<\/p>\n

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But then I look at the big pile o’ fur I’ve saved up, and I think that maybe – just maybe – this is all kind of gross and I really shouldn’t be doing this:<\/p>\n

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I might have to give this pursuit up – it only sounds sane if I don’t tell anyone about it.<\/p>\n

Er…<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

…here, look at this cute picture of Bear Kitty instead of thinking about the dirty secret I’ve just revealed to you:<\/p>\n

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I don’t spend much time talking about Bear Kitty, but he’s really a very impressive cat.\u00a0 For one thing, on one body he manages to fit enough fur to cover 6 normal cats – his coat is almost as thick as a sea otter’s (and nearly as waterproof).\u00a0 This means he tends to shed…a lot. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,27,34],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bear-kitty","tag-mistakes","tag-spinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}