If you are finding a
lot of dog fur on your couch when you get home, you are going to need a better solution.
VIP Fibers, a company that spins dog fur into yarn — Yes, Virginia, there really are dog fur spinners — suggests that unless you live in a really, really cold climate you not make entire garments
out of dog fur yarn because it's up to 80 % warmer than sheep wool.
In a
study of dog fur, only half the dogs were found to have roundworm eggs in their fur (no more than one egg per dog was found) and only 4 percent of the eggs found were infectious.
Mange, a skin infection, had caused
all of the dogs fur to fall off, except for her fuzzy ears which lead her caretakers to name her Fraggle.
A photo of three hard drives here shows some more macro action, this time in light similar to
that of the dog fur above.