Why is Boodie in the enclosed patio, eating the dog’s food?
I had to push my way in to find out.
So here was the deal: my human was Furminating her — again! — but this time it was to help clean up the mess left by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It turns out that fur and hair do a great job of soaking up oil, and Matter of Trust is asking beauty salons, pet groomers, and even individuals to send human hair clippings and pet fur so they can make “booms” to absorb the oil that has spilled into the Gulf.
Here is a video about how this works:
To make these “booms,” they also need nylon stockings to stuff the hair and fur in, so my human is donating a bunch of stockings she has had since the 1980s. Do not ask me why she was hanging onto them all this time. There are some things about humans I really don’t understand.
As a reward for getting Furminated again, my human told us cats that we were each allowed to do one naughty thing in the enclosed patio. That’s why Boodie got a few bites of the dog food. Binga opted to hang out in the doghouse.
Of course, I went for the food. Dog food is yummy and my human never lets me have it!
According to the instructions, you are supposed to put the fur and nylons into separate plastic garbage bags, as you saw here, and box them up. We were such good kitties that we even offered to sacrifice a really great box for this cause!
If you want to do this — or if you want to get your groomer or hair salon involved, sign up with the Excess Access program (or have your groomer or hair salon sign up), and they will tell you how to prepare your box and where to send it. See if you can get friends and family involved so you can send them a really big package!
What a great idea! I can grow floof like no cat.
PS Mom loved the zebra flats from yesterday.
How terrific, good on you, wonderful kitties. Shandy could do with a fur removal so I will keep this in mind and look out for other Aussie long-haired cats and people to join and send their packages to Florida. Thanks for the cute story and pictures! Have a purr-fect day Sparkle and friends.
We didn’t know about this but it is a great idea! Thanks for telling us a good use for fur and bright stockings!
I had no idea that hair would soak up oil. They should go around to barbers all the time so they can have some in reserve.
We heard about this on Skeezix’s blog! How cool! And those stockings your human sending is gonna make some colorful booms!!
We think this is a most excellent cause and mom’s already been overheard saying something about busting out the brushes. Plus, our little sisbean is getting her hairs cut tomorrow, so we’ll ask the salon for their hairs from the floor.
Those were some BRIGHT stockings! Mommy remembers those well…
Good Job on the PSA post.
xx lounge kats
That is such a wonderful idea. We will work on our Mom to get the hair and stockings together. We don’t have a furminator but she cuts the dogs with sissors so we could send that hair. This is really a good idea. Thanks Sparkle for telling us about it.
Oh, this is such a great idea! Mom printed the poster from the cause and posted it at work. Sparkle, we don’t have a woofie… why were all your naughty things about the dog? Also, I don’t really like to be brushed or furminated, so I’ll explore Mom’s dresser and make sure she gets rid of HER stash of stockings from the 80s! Oh, my!
don’t eat the dog food – it probably isn’t really good for you. And tell your human – Well Done!
We’ve been hearing about this and the furminating has begun at our house too! Happy Friday!
That is a very cool thing to do! We hope it helps lots.
Hair and fur,fur a speacal cause! Who knew!
Pawsome! Finaly! Bird are geting in the oil spill! Less birds in the oil less birds in the tumtum! We’re glan we finaly have a solotion!
WOAH! You guys are saving the planet!! Well done!