Caturday 48: Lacey Wafts Fur

As is plain to see in the photo, Lacey is a girl of girth. That along with a bit of arthritis impedes a old puss's ability to scale lofty heights. In the photo ↓ the red arrows indicate the path that she must take to her lookout. At one time, she could omit stage 2 and just go from 1 to 3. In fact, it was almost like she could fly on by landing 1 and go directly to the top. Almost, but not quite.

Now, have another look ↑ at the box outlined in orange — the one behind the basket-shaped container way at the back of the desk. It stays there out of her way. But when I had to access it recently, somehow or other some of Lacey’s fur had made it’s way into that little, isolated box.

Yes indeed: in previous Caturday posts, I have described how she wafts fur. She never upchucks furballs because she never has to sallow her fur. It just sails hither, thither and yon, madly off in all directions and to all elevations.

The day after the discovery of fur in that box, a new brush came from an online order. The two events were not planned to be synchronous. They just happened to coincide.

I applied said brush to her royal coat and have never seen a brush gather so much fur so easily. This ↓ is what I gathered in just a few short minutes with hardly any effort at all. There is even a lifting mechanism to extract the fur from the wires for very easy cleaning. The fur reveals that the girl has dandruff, and consequently, I have a plugged nose and itchy eyes. 

In case you are interested, this nifty brush is described on Amazon Canada as Garstor Cat Dog Brush, Self-Cleaning Slicker Brush, Pet Grooming Brush, Easy to Remove Loose Undercoat, Mats and Tangled Hair, Comb for long & Short Haired Dog and Cat, Effective Deshedding Tool.

It will come in handy, especially right now, for she is beginning to drop clumps of fur in addition to the habitual wafting. Somehow, her body is preparing for spring. It must be from the increasing light, for the weather remains wintery. In point of fact, the mercury read -28C/-18F this morning at 6AM. The indoor temperature was 15C/59F, but the furnace was kicking in, and it has warmed up pretty well since then.

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I should add this about the brush. With the old one in need of replacing, Sue had put it on our wish list. Some days later, Alexa notified us that it was $10 off the original price. Would we like to buy it? Yes Alexa, we would. And so it was done, just by speaking to Alexa. Amazing really.