Static Electricity
I "furminated" Buffy a few minutes ago. For a domestic short hair, she
sure has a really heavy undercoat! She sheds like crazy. The Furminator is an excellent grooming tool. I groom her, put the excess fur in a short lined waste basket. She rolls around and purrs while being "furminated". It's got to feel good to lose that heavy undercoat of fur as the weather is warming up. Of course she gets scritches and plenty of soothing words from me, too. She rolls around and lets me get her sides and the scruff of her heck and the base of her tail. She purrs when I use this deshedding tool on her. This time, though, she decided afterwards to rub against the (I'd emptied it) waste basket where I always put that soft, loose fur. The static electricity was such that some of the fur flew back up and stuck to her. It was funny! Poof! Thanks to static electricity you can have your fur back. I picked the pieces of off Buffy's face. And yes, I have since emptied the basket so no more Buffy Fluff will be flying about the place. :) Jill |
Static Electricity
This house has forced hot air heating, so the air in here tends to get pretty dry if the furnace has been running a lot, and the low humidity breeds static electricity. I'll reach over to pet Minnie, or she bunts my hand with her head or goes to sniff my fingers, and ZAP! That's especially true if she's just been rolling around on the rug...sometimes I look at her and I can see that her fur is standing up, and since she's purring, I know it isn't because she's agitated. She especially hates it when her ears or her nose get zapped. After that happens a few times, she actually whines when she sees me reach out to pet her because she's afraid of getting zapped again. Once this happened in the kitchen, and when she whined, I walked over to the wastebasket - which is stainless steel on the outside with a plastic inside that you lift out to empty it - and touched the outside. Sure enough, I got zapped, but then I was able to pet Minnie without her getting zapped too. So here's how smart my kitty is: She saw me do that once, and since then I've often noticed her rubbing her fanny against the wastebasket before she comes over to solicit my attention when we're in the kitchen - undoubtedly to avoid getting her ears or nose zapped when she makes contact with me. This cat is so bright it's eerie sometimes. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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