| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2149.1 | purely cosmetic | RUTLND::SWITCHBOARD | | Wed Jan 18 1989 14:31 | 8 |
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When I was about 6/7 years old I decided my cat needed a haircut.
Soooo, I cut her whiskers off. I couldn't understand my fathers
disgust, my reasons were purely cosmetic. He explained the necessity
for whiskers to me and I haven't done it since.
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| 2149.2 | Whisker Hoarding | YUPPY::MUNRO | | Thu Jan 19 1989 08:53 | 9 |
| One of my cats has usually one or sometimes two white whiskers (in
amongst the black ones) and for the past few weeks, even months,
she's had one extra long white one. I've been waiting for ages
for her to shed it and finally she did yesterday, so I've added
it to the collection in my pin cushion!
Any ideas as to what you can do with a collection of whiskers?
Pam.
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| 2149.3 | Do you do needlework?? | NETMAN::DISMUKE | Chocolate lips don't lie... | Thu Jan 19 1989 14:31 | 6 |
| re .2
Do you do any needwork? It would be neat to do a face of your cat
in cross-stitch and use the real whiskers for the face....
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| 2149.4 | | HILLST::MASON | Explaining is not understanding | Thu Jan 19 1989 19:17 | 4 |
| I had collected them from our cats for years to use in tying fishing
flies. Never have used them, but they look neat.
Gary
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| 2149.5 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Fri Jan 20 1989 07:45 | 9 |
| I've been collecting them too. I'm going to make earrings out of
them when I have enough. I'm trying to get enough black ones from
Isis first. Three of the cats have white whiskers, which show up
really well on the carpet so I always find them, but Isis's are
harder to see. Plus she's the only one shedding black whiskers.
Nancy DC
p.s. I LOVE the idea of using them in a needlepoint picture!
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| 2149.6 | Earrings?? | YUPPY::MUNRO | | Fri Jan 20 1989 13:05 | 7 |
| I think the idea of the picture sounds great too - I'll have to
take up needlework though.
How on earth do you intend to make earrings out of them, Nancy?
Pam
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| 2149.7 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Fri Jan 20 1989 15:14 | 15 |
| I'm going to use some gold filled wire and some jewelers epoxy to
make a tuft of them, then I can also put a semi-precious bead on
the end of the wire, and lastly make a loop that will be used
to hook the whole affair to a "ball-post" or kidney-wire.
O---|- <---- Ball post (4 mm gf ball on post)
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O <---- Semi-precious bead
/|\
//|\\ <---- "tuft" of cat whiskers
///|\\\
Wadda-ya think?
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| 2149.8 | Whisker earrings | YUPPY::MUNRO | | Mon Jan 23 1989 07:15 | 6 |
| I think it sounds great. I'd love to try it too.
Don't you think it'll be a bit tickly though? I mean, think what
it's like when they get up your nose!
Pam
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| 2149.9 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Tue Jan 24 1989 07:51 | 5 |
| RE: -1
hmmm...you may be right, I'll let you know.
I also have some feathers I found in the yard (I think Goliath
had been out hunting) and I might do something with those too.
Interesting mix, cat whiskers and feathers.
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| 2149.10 | stuffed kitty | CIMNET::GLADDING | Exactly the same but different | Wed Jan 25 1989 11:17 | 5 |
| I saw a picture in one of the cat magazines of a woman who
saved her cat's whiskers and made a stuffed cat out of material
and attached the whiskers to it. It looked really cute!
Pam
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