Merle,
I gather the cats' shed hair, on a grooming brush, and compost it along with
kitchen scraps and yard waste.
I also gather the fur and put it outside in clumps so birds can carry it to
their nests in nesting season: the Angora fur is very fine and soft, and the
birds carry it away reliably:
I usually put a clump of it on the ground, and "pin" it to the ground with a
small twig. The hair is always gone by the next day. I've seen birds flying
off with big bits of it. Imagine how nice the Angora-lined nests are, for the
hatchlings.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> joe..well well well...waste not want not..... my tai chi teacher spun a hat
> out of his dog's hair... are you recycling those hairy cats of yours joe?...
> merle
> > Well, that's just irrelevant.
> >
> >In very big cities -- where most of the population, and pets live -- people
> >have pets "put-down" at Vets. And rescue centers there, or in nearby
> >suburbs "generate" a lot of dead animals per week, by merciful euthanizing
> >of old, frail, or unhealthy pets.
>
> "Rendering" is a good internet search-topic; it will tell you about this
> component of pet foods.
>
> The high-temperature anaerobic de-polymerization rendering process reduces
> the pet bodies to basic components; I doubt you could tell what came from
> dogs and what came from cats, afterwards. But then it is all turned into dog
> food and cat food.
>
> Remember "Soylent Green"? ;-)
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