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I know at one point she collected cat whiskers to make brushes for painting ball jointed dolls.

If you've ever tried painting ball jointed dolls, you'd know that's more practical than crazy.

But they weren't her cats...

I've sent my snake's sheds to people using them for art projects. My sister has a big collection of feathers from an aunt who owns parrots. She uses them in costumes and mixed media pieces. I have a cat who sheds his whiskers a lot, if someone asked me for them to make brushes with I'd definitely save them.

They're free and often very pretty and useful materials! Better than just throwing them away.

No, that's cool if you collect them from a pet owner that gives them to you, but to lure your neighbor's cats over to do that? A liiiiiittle weird, just saying.

I think a lot of the discussion in this thread could have been cut short if that had been included in the original comment :p. I don't keep in the Lackey loop so I hadn't heard this.

Yeah, I'll admit fault there.

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dinogrrl - 2015-04-28 23:56 (UTC) - Expand

Holy shit.

I didn't own a cat when I did something similar for my painting either. I asked a friend if they happened to come across one from her cats, could she put it aside for me (in case you don't know, it's virtually impossible to by commercial or synthetic brushes that are thin enough for some of the finer details of painting without spending the sort of cash I'd call way crazier than making use of natural resources - making brushes from things like cat whiskers isn't unusual in the painting/crafting world).

As long as she wasn't going around kidnapping cats and plucking their whiskers out then I don't see the issue.

She would lure her neighbors cats over. Like I said, it's all cool if the owner knows what's up, but....

Then your issue is with her alledged underhand behavior.

Your original comment makes it seem that you have some issue with the fact that she made brushes, which, as several people have told you (and which a quick google would show) isn't the creepy and unusual practice you seem to think it is.

(Anonymous) - 2015-04-28 23:52 (UTC) - Expand

Hahahaha. How did she get the whiskers, then?

She would stroke the cat's face until the whiskers came out.

Well, that doesn't seem so terrible. I had visions of her running at them with tweezers or something.

(Anonymous) - 2015-04-30 15:19 (UTC) - Expand

That's actually a very useful idea if you're painting tiny things. Better than pulling bristles out of an expensive paint brush >>.

Which is fine if it's your own cats but it's creepy to take them from your neighbor. Sorry.

DA

Would you call it creepy if your neighbor owned an apple tree but never ate or used apples in any way, so you took them to use/eat instead?

Yes, because that is their property. Now, if you asked, that's another thing entirely.

And your actual source that she never asked is...?

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(Anonymous) - 2015-04-29 11:36 (UTC) - Expand

If someone's not using their car, is it okay for me to take it if I'd get a lot of use out of it? It's still someone's personal property. You want those apples, you ask permission.

Ridiculous analogy. It doesn't hurt a tree to have apples picked off it. (in before Wizard of Oz reference)

Not really? No creepier than using any shed/molted animal materials in art*. As I said in my other comment, otherwise they'd just get thrown away. Free materials.

Now, if she were surreptitiously sneaking around a friend's house looking for cat whiskers, or cutting them off the cat's face, that's definitely questionable.

*Unless you have moral/religious/whatever objections to it, then yeah I could see how it's creepy.

She would lure them over. Sorry, but if I caught someone luring my animal over, I would be weirded out. And there were rumors that she would snip them off, but I was weirded out enough by the luring someone's pet over to remove whiskers part without believing those rumors. Maybe I'm just over-protective of my animals, but stroking a cat's whiskers until they come off seems a bit stressful to me.

Yeah, that's definitely weird. They're not like regular hairs, they're sensory devices.

(Anonymous) - 2015-04-28 23:57 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, that is pretty weird.