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@Dface: I am more and more convinced that my rat is a crossbreed with angora or other wooly breeds… when i pluck him I practically take out an endless thread of wool =.= and yeah I have the same problem with hair sticking to stuff and coming out in the weirdest places. As for clothes, I barely wet my hand and rub it over my clothes to take off the fine hair… doesn’t work 100% but it’s better than what the brush can take off.
@bam: also K used to do that when he was younger, then he probably ‘learned’ that it’s better to shed when you have new fur already poking out
@Azerane: good luck ahahaha
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I thought we were the only ones! I was so relieved (for about… three days!) that Chewie’s second monster moult was over. And now this week he’s started another. WTF??? He’s never had a bald spot, but now I’m starting to suspect there’s some angora in my floof as well because his undercoat is pure long fine strands of wool – which I should be knitting into scarves but instead am using to supplement my diet. Blech! Blech! Ptoo! It doesn’t help that he will NOT be picked up to be groomed. I must (as usual this year) pluck him with one hand as I give him a headrub with the other. ??? -
I feel all your pain… Theo had a moult in february time this year and when it was done in March I was like great it’s over nice and early!!
But alas it was not over nice and early. He started again in April and this time literally all his hair fell out has regrown only shorter. I was brushing/plucking him several times a day for up to half an hour and more and more fur just kept coming out. Theo’s pen is in our kitchen too so all my meals have had a little extra seasoning of fur this last few months!! As have all my clothes, and furniture. It’s a nightmare when we have guests I’m having to clean like a maniac to make sure they don’t find Theo fur in their food! On top of this Theo is super sensitive to fur ingestion so this moult has seen us in stasis once with a £200 bill from the emergency vet, and also several times where simethicone and syringe feeding have been required.
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I think it’s finally finished for another year *does ecstatically happy dance* Who am I kidding he’ll probably start moulting again tomorrow.
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Winter hasn’t really molted whatsoever…. All I do is the regular weekly brush and she’s fine. She’s a pure Himalayan so fur isn’t quite so thick, but I’m honestly very surprised.
Licorice I’m scared about.
He’s molting very gradually so it only requires grooming every four days. His last spring molt was very heavy (he did have mites at the time) so I’m not sure if I should be happy or if the worst is yet to come. Either way, I got off really easy compared to some of you.
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Haha, Id had mine for a few years and never really used them. Id bought wool rovings to make mini needle felted versions of my bunnies. But never got around to it… Id always wanted to do some using their actual fur too.
So when I got a good bunch from Gooseman’s chest last week, I gave it a go. As you can see, I didn’t really make it into anything. Plenty more fur on supply though!I was playing around with the idea of a hock sock (toe-less) for extra padding if hocks are getting a bit bare. Or using as a pad if I ever had to wrap the hocks.
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