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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
Perhaps it's not cat hair  |
Now, that was a truly terrifying thought. However, I'm pretty sure it's Storm's coat--a lightweight, fairy-hair silver tabby coat, of intermediate length and utterly insubstantial in heft. It gets EVERYWHERE. IT's odd, because she has the flat, straight coat--very fine and thin--and it comes out if you look at it. I've seen her have one, teeny-weeny hairball in 3+ years. She also doesn't like to be groomed, and due to the airy-fairy coat, she'll get knots and small matts in it, of course.
Zep, the male, on the other hand, is not only built like the stereotypical modern MC--looks like an English Bulldog in cat drag--but has the coat of a Husky, thick and with a heavy undercoat. Doesn't come out at ALL. I comb and comb and comb, and, oh, did I mention, combing?, and he still gets hairballs that look vaguely like Polaris missiles in size. He's an obsessively clean cat--keeps himself uber-tidy, and the consequences of that are GI-normous. He adores being groomed, the big lug, but it seems to make no difference to the deadly missiles that are his hairballs. And yes: I groom him stem-to-stern nightly, smoothly pulling out handfuls of fur; makes not a whit of diff.
I ran around here half-assing it with a Swiffer yesterday, solely in the main living area, and I'm pretty sure I picked up at least one cat's worth of coat. Damned if I know where on earth it all comes from!
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