Your readers that have dogs are probably starting to have them blow their coats now, or they will be in the near future.
What we’ve been doing when we brush them is to put the fur in onion bags and then hang them out later in Spring when birds are looking for nesting materials. We use separate bags for each dog and the don’t hang them together. That way, we can find nests later made pretty much from the fur of that dog.
Sorry for the poor picture.
The one on the right came from Brutus, my big Mastiff. The one to the left came from our other Mastiff, Sophie.
We’re putting some together for our other dogs now.
Just a nice remembrance that some might appreciate knowing about.
my brother had a elk hound that killed his fridge. damn dog shed fur like mad.
ReplyDeletewe used to joke that he could knit a new dog every other month.
but the dog did kill his fridge. he never cleaned UNDER it. and the fridge died 3 years after he got the dog.
I have a bag full of my son's Shiba Inu fur waiting for spring. 😎
ReplyDeleteI use the lint from the clothes dryer too & I also bring a few Cattails from the swamp. The Hummingbirds prefer the cattails & the lint. My dog ain't got enough hair to keep covered much less build a bird nest.
ReplyDeleteLint is not recommended for nest material.
Deletehttps://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providing-nest-material-for-birds-dos-donts/#
Cattails: Thank you for the suggestion.
DeleteI have huskies....and a blower to blow them out like groomers use.
ReplyDeleteAnd I blow them outside: The fur goes wherever, but the critters use it.
Seriously?
ReplyDeleteHow about a photo of your dog.
Yall got dropped on your noggin as a baby, lmao
Well anon I've got those, too. Pretty nice ones. But, please, continue to make inane comments. I did lose my right eye due to a brain injury playing football. Maybe that's what did it? Who knows? Your excuse?
DeleteThe guy's a fairly regular troll here, Wisco. He's such an asshole I usually delete his comments out right away, but this one slipped by.
DeleteTo tell you the truth I kind of enjoy his posts. It's not often that an intellectually challenged cretin so proudly enjoys displaying what a low-class vitriolic jerk he is. lmao.
DeleteKeep 'em coming, Anonymous. And try to think of a cleverer moniker to post by, would you? We'll still know it's you. Seriously.
lmao, again.
I spin the wool from my longhaired husky. It's not oily like my golden retriever, so the yarn doesn't smell like wet dog. I also put it in empty suet feeders for the birds. I also once found a birds nest made with the tail hair I'd combed out of my horse; that one goes in the christmas tree every year.
ReplyDeleteWe had a Siberian Husky. She was a wonderful dog, smart and funny. She would shed her coat twice a year. She would blow the inner coat, the really fine stuff, in the spring. We had to comb and brush her at least twice a day until it was finished or we would have that fuzz all over the house. (We called those fine balls of fuzz "ghost turds".) The spring molt lasted about a month. In the fall, she would shed the outer coat. Those were the longer hairs that allowed her to shed water. Still, even after all that work, our house was full of fuzz and ghost turds. She was a very good dog and after she died, we really missed her, fuzz and all.
ReplyDeleteAfter that experience, we didn't think it was possible for a dog to shed as much as a Siberian. We found out how wrong we could be when a few years later we got ourselves a German Shepherd. Summer, winter, spring, or fall, he never stops shedding his coat. He's a lovable galoot, but sometimes I think he's a machine that converts dog food into fur.
I just throw in the yard. Birds find it. My mutt has a double coat, he sheds all year.. BTW birds seem to be nest8ng early this year. Seen the first Robin.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, the birdies aren't nesting early here in snowy California this year. Brrrrr.
DeleteFrickin' Climate Change.
We just got our first dog a few months ago, a yellow Lab and she's starting to shed like crazy at 5mos old. With the chickens in the back yard and all the birds mooching seed and water from them, this is a very cool project to set my kids on. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI remember a article about a woman that will knit you a sweater out of the hair.
ReplyDeleteIt should at least keep the cats off you…
Good idea. So I attract them with dog hair and pop em off with my pellet gun. I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks. Ok ok just joking
ReplyDeleteI cut my hair the other day and some of the hair ended up on the deck outside of my house. The next morning, a white breasted nuthatch was picking up the tufts if hair and then heading up into the trees.
ReplyDeleteStarker here,
ReplyDeleteWe had a black lab. Best dogs with young kids. He was born within a week of my middle. I used to tease my boy that they were twins. We used to wash our lab on the deck & brush him wet. The fur would fill the brush after a couple of times. Those clumps would just lay there even though there were dozens of finches in the row of arborvitaes. I wish labs were longer lived dogs, only 10-12 years.
My Vizsla does not have an undercoat, so the shedding seasons do not amount to anything. It basically is what he does shed is consistent year round, so slightly more manageable or at least Its consistant. My shep mix RIP, however would lay it on during his shedding seasons. Brush out the tufts, and he was like those old paper towel dispensers in restrooms - tug out the sheet - and a second later a new one popped up.
ReplyDeleteWe've had Alaskan Malamutes for years. Shedding dog hair? We win. My last Mal died about the same time as Charlie Godammnit, and I've since moved - and I still find fucking dog hair sometimes.
ReplyDeleteOriginal Grandpa
CharlieGodammit was the same way. I could grab his coat any time of the year and pull out handfuls of hair.
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