fur coats in august

[jazzfish]

Ten minutes of heavy rain do not make up for my getting mugged by the heat and humidity every time I step out the door, including at eleven PM. Ick. Also, the crap wiring in this complex means that ten minutes of heavy rain (probably including thunder and lightning somewhere) makes the lights flicker on and off. At least I've got the router plugged in to the UPS properly so that it doesn't drop my net connection for no reason.

Probably relatedly, it is time to furminate the cats again. We just did this last week (or maybe it was the week before, but I'm pretty sure it was last week) and Chaos is already shedding in clumps again. I know how everyone with cats is like "oh, yeah, cats shed a lot, that's just how it is with cats," but I am here to tell you that these cats are worse. When I say "clumps" I mean that literally: I come away with handfuls of fur every time I pet either of them. I have no idea how they do it.

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[rbandrews]

I would like to corroborate this. Chaos has a tendency to make everything around him white.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

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[idoru.livejournal.com]

Huuhhh. My mom's cat, a mostly-white dilute calico, is one of the sheddingest shorthairs I've ever met (you can get 3, 4+ slicker brushes full of hair off 'er.. daily, if not more).

My two are "domestic shorthairs", by which we mean "very few people list domestic medium hair. They get their undercoat shed goin' on, but they're not prone to hairballs & I don't find spare cats' worth of hair around.. unless we brush them after going a couple weeks. That said, I mean, all my clothing has cat hair on it, so maybe this furminator thing is a good idea..