Let your dog make you a sweater...

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    Let your dog make you a sweater...

    Make his fur into yarn!

    http://www.mdnpd.com/pd/default.htm

    This is something for a great pyrenees owner to get into!
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    We did that with one of our first Saints.  It's kind of cool to have a physical part of them after they're gone.

    eta: We just have the yarn...we didn't actually turn it into anything.
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    A few years ago, the Elkhound list I'm on collected the under coat of members' dogs to have spun into yarn.  The person on the list who knew the woman that did the spinning then made a hat and scarf from the yarn.  These were auctioned off at the Nationals that year to benefit John Nelson Moosedog Rescue. 
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    Hmmmm, how many basenjis over how many years would it take to make one sock?
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    I was going to do this with Sadie's fur - beautiful white undercoat. A lady was going to teach me to spin it into yarn and I was going to knit a sweater.
    It would take literally YEARS of collecting dog fur in order to get enough to make a sweater. The average skein of yarn is 4 - 8 ounces and imagine how much a handful of dog fur weighs.
    I never did it...I would have run out of room to keep it
     
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    I may have enough to  make a hat from Jake's brushing tonight.