Law Of Conservation Of Dog Hair

Calendar November 7, 2004 | Posted by Aubrey Turner

It’s amazing to me the amount of hair that one medium-sized dog can shed.  I just cleaned the lint screen after taking my sheets out of the dryer and was amazed to find a wad of black hair.  The washer gets most of the hair out, so that was just a small portion of what was originally there.  I also see the same thing when running the vacuum in the living room.  It’s a bagless model, and it doesn’t seem to matter how many passes I make, I get a great big wad of dog hair in it every time.

And while I’m talking about the dog, I find it amazing that despite being a long-haired dog who loves to swim and jump into the brush along the trail that she doesn’t smell.  When I bathe her I usually get lots of sand and dirt that was hiding in her fur, but if you hadn’t washed her you wouldn’t have ever know it was there.  She also somehow manages to make her collar smell bad, usually within a few days of getting a new one (I’m starting to suspect that she does this on purpose).  The amazing thing is that she doesn’t smell, just the collar.  Washing them doesn’t work, so I end up having to get her a new one every couple of months.

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1 Comment

  1. Charles E. Fuller Jr. says:
    November 10, 2004 at 12:06 am

    Hi!
    I know what you mean about dog hair. Ninja, my English Springer Spaniel, has been dead since June of last year and I’m still finding dog hair in the lint trap.
    Springers are however high-intensity fur production machines. Perhaps a new word should be invented, one beyond “shedding.”
    The only breed I have had any contact that is even worse in this context than a Springer is the Golden Retreiver. They are however only worse because they are larger dogs. On a per pound basis they shed about the same amount as a Springer.
    It should be noted that both of these breeds are highly affectionate. This helps distribute shed dog hair.
    Charles