Question of dog owners...what are your thoughts.

[tpop1]

I am not currently a dog owner, but we had a dog that lived 17 years before passing on and leaving our family.

The other day I was in a gas station behind a woman who was paying for her gas and who was in a discussion with the woman clerk. The clerk had a look on her face like a deer in the headlights. The customer had a white hat and scarf on and was telling the clerk how warm they were.....and how she never new how warm items made from her dog hair could be!!!

My toes curled hearing this story and the clerk was flabbergasted. After the woman left, the clerk said, "I hope the hair was from a live dog, not one that has passed on."

Over Christmas, I discussed this with a number of people, dog lovers and owners and the reaction was mixed. I Googled it and found numerous hits on "Kniting with dog hair" including a book titled "Better the dog you know than the sheep you don't!"

I assume most of you in this forum love dogs and probably own dogs.

What do you think???
1) Would you wear clothes knitted from dog hair?
------ your dog only?
------ live only?
2) Would you gift someone an item you've knitted from your dog'd hair?
------ Would you tell them?
3) Does this distrub you?

Just wondering...loved my dog but NEVER!!!

[sschuler1]

My dogs were a hairless breed, so you wouldn't be able to really make anything with their hair. But my sister had a chow, and I remember seeing a bag of hair near their garbage container from grooming their dog in the spring when it was shedding it's winter coat. It was a massive size bag of fur! I never thought about it, but the coat on that dog was a beautiful color, and that fur would have made some very pretty yarn. Sheep's wool is very accepted as a yarn, and so is goat's hair. Why not dog's hair?

Now if she was wearing a dog's pelt, that's a different story! Gross!

[chelsea24]

This is just plain nuts! And so is that woman in my honest opinion. I can't believe she would use the fur of a dead dog, or even shave her live one to do this! Wow! Get yourself some yarn sistah! hahahahaha! :p

[redwitch]

Actually, knit dog hair makes great products. I have a friend in California who always wanted the fur from my Old English and Afghan hounds when she knew I was grooming or, more importantly, shaving them for the summer -- she really made some nice pieces that she sold at local craft fairs for a very pretty penny.

[mike barkley]

why not. i was in seoul last fall and my colleague had a dog dish for lunch. diff strokes for diff parts of the world. i would think poodle hair would be best for this since it is so fine and silky plus it isnt fur, but growing hair.

[Julie]

I assume most of you in this forum love dogs and probably own dogs.

What do you think???
1) Would you wear clothes knitted from dog hair?
------ your dog only?
------ live only?
2) Would you gift someone an item you've knitted from your dog'd hair?
------ Would you tell them?
3) Does this distrub you?

Just wondering...loved my dog but NEVER!!!

You assume correctly, I LOVE my two dogs.:0000000000luvmyhors

1) Yes, any living dog would be fine.

2) Yes, Yes.

3) I would only be disturbed if I knew that people would kill a dog to use its hair. It is difficult for me to imagine that a person would even do this since it seems on par with owning a sheep, llama or goat which are commonly used as sources of wool for knitted products without killing them. I mean why would you want to kill an animal and only be able to use it once versus keeping it alive and shaving it over and over again to be able to make money off of it over and over again?

[schotzyb]

My brother -in-law was in the Air Force and stationed somewhere in the Middle East and for Christmas that year he sent my wife and I flight jackets that had dog hair for the collar. I had 2 Dobermans at the time and they went absolutely beserk everytime we took one of the jackets out of the closet. We ended up donating the jackets to Goodwill