Comments on: Tuesday dog fur blogging

By: RadFemHedonist

RadFemHedonist — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:15:23 +0000

josie my source of most frustration

is your name a reference to the movie Josie and the Pussycats?

By: Tigs

Tigs — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:53:28 +0000

I agree with Sandy D., my Shar-Pei mutt has a “horse coat” which, amazingly enough, means her hair is about the length of a horse’s coat. Even with the shortest hair, she still stinks up the place with her wet dog self.

I am actually inspired by the close up excitement of this picture and am wondering what Dio’s haunch would look like under such inspection.

To the camera!

By: Sandy D.

Sandy D. — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:46:38 +0000

That hair looks like it’s trying to escape from my monitor and jump into the butter dish. Or the jam, or any number of other food items that collect my own (half lab, half golden retriever) dog’s hair.

You know, I don’t think that “wet dog” smell comes from the hair itself. Sometimes when I brush my dog, I throw the giant wads of dog hair into the kitchen compost bucket, and when I dump it into the compost outside I never smell that distinctive wet dog odor.

By: Sniper

Sniper — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:45:21 +0000

The dog fur is washed again and again before it’s spun into yarn and the textile artists claim there’s no smell – no worse than a wet wool sweater, anyway.

That being said, those sweaters are damned expensive so I’ve never bought one myself.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:29:01 +0000

OK, so would recycled dog fur sweaters take on l’arome du wet dog when they get wet? Because ew. Insert Cunning Allusionment?’s mom’s poison label face here. I love my dog, and I love the way she smells most of the time, but not when she’s wet.

By: Cunning Allusionment?

Cunning Allusionment? — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:18:44 +0000

Vera: RE: making sweaters for your dog out of your dog’s hair: I used to have very long hair, and this friend of mine (who I was secretly crushing on) told me I should make a pillow out of it (’cause it was so soft and voluminous). And I thought to myself, I thought, “well that’s a better use of it than leaving it strewn all over the place.” So I started collecting it. After about five years, I had enough hair to make a nice little throw pillow. I haven’t actually got a pillow case for it yet though. My mom finds it totally revolting and made poison label faces every time I talked about it.

By: mAndrea

mAndrea — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:44:55 +0000

Oh. yes it was my mistake that I hit the delete key, but it was a MAN who thought that key placement isn’t important.

Have a nice day.

By: mAndrea

mAndrea — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:42:27 +0000

Whoever thought it was a good idea to put the delete key right next to the copy key was most likely a MAN. And whoever thought it was a good idea to NOT let you turn one keyboard shortcut off without also turning off all the others was also most likely a MAN.

That is all, and now I have to go work.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:50:36 +0000

“that Northern breed habit of sleeping in a tight circle with his tail covering his nose.”

Not to be indelicate, but do you ever wonder how they don’t knock themselves out with their own noxious dog farts?

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:42:49 +0000

I thought it was pubic hair at first too. It’s the skin-hair arrangement.