good one joe!!!!!...don't those hairy cats get mighty hot in summer?...merle 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"? ;-) [snip]
