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Hair of the Dog
Hair slivers are real.
It’s true ask your hairdresser.
My hairdresser says they get them all the time, and I’m here to tell you, they are just as painful as wood slivers.
Let’s just say I’m sensitive to hairs.
In fact, I’m so sensitive, sometimes my family refers to me as The Princess and the Pea.
You remember that story right? (I had to go re-read it to make sure I told it right). If you’d like you can read it yourself (click HERE), but I’m going to summarize it right now.
A prince wanted to marry a princess but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t find the one meant for him. One day a princess turned up at his castle and to test to see if she was a real princess the queen placed a pea on the bed frame and covered it with 20 mattresses and 20 down beds. Despite all the cushioning the princess felt the pea and didn’t sleep all night long, which proved to the queen, king and prince that she was a real princess and they lived happily ever after.
So my story is similar, except I’m sensitive to hair. With two big dogs it seems no matter how frequently I vacuum, there is always hair.
I can feel it when it embeds itself in my skin like a sliver. Like the time we were walking the dogs and I said to Hubby, there’s something stabbing me in my heel. I walked on my tip toes all the way home where he put his head lamp on and extracted the hair.
I can feel them when they lodge themselves in an article of clothing. Pants get them in the seams, shirts get them in the sleeves and bras. Oh My God, the bras! Sometimes I swear the bras themselves are made of hair.
Dog hair.
How can a bra that has just been washed, have hair woven through the fibers? Do you know what it’s like to have a hair stabbing you in the nipple and be unable to find it?
The worst is Sampson’s hair, it is very light in color and often times I can’t find it right away, especially when I’m wearing a beige bra.
True story, I went for a Mammogram one year and the technician said, “You have some dry skin around your nipple, you might want to have that checked.” (TMI?)
I deadpanned back, “It’s nothing, I had a dog hair I couldn’t find.”
And I thought her poop stories were embarrassing.
Oh yes, I’m like a dog with a bone until I find them. It’s not unusual for Hubby to walk into the kitchen and find me with an article of clothing off, examining it under the light.
“Hair?”
“YUP!”
Luckily I’m the only woman at work so the bathroom is all mine, because I’ve spent a lot of time in there, sitting on the toilet with an article of clothing in one hand and my cell phone with the flashlight feature in the other looking for a dog gone hair.
I do my best to prevent the hair from getting into my clothes in the first place, in fact, Hubby says I’m the only person he knows who lint rollers the INSIDE of her clothes.
One day my four-year old granddaughter was picking at her shirt. I took her shirt off, found the hair and put the shirt back on her. Apparently super powers are herditary 🙂
Do any of you have a problem with hair in your clothes? I’d love to know how you deal with it.
Follow-Up Friday
Tomorrow there will be no Follow-Up Friday as I will be in Nashville and it’s nigh on impossible to get it ready before I leave, but I will have a special post.
Alternative titles: I Have Super Powers
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Dog hairs don’t normally bother me EXCEPT when they are (1) attached to my sunglasses’ nose piece and tickling my nose, or (2) attached to an eyebrow or upper eyelash and hanging in my eye. Aaaccckkk!! What does drive me nuts is coming in the house to get away from the bugs and feeling like I still have the little bastards attached to my skin.
Have fun at BlogPaws and I know you’ll do great!!
I am so with you on the hair slivers. I used to groom and it was awful. When you trim hair it comes off like shards and goes right into the skin. With certain dog breeds, I’ve even developed an allergy and get hives. One of my groomer friends is also very allergic to certain breeds and almost lost her hand due to hair slivers. The struggle is real!
With the girls, I have to keep them bathed regularly or I will get hives on my arms from their hair poking me. It’s awful.
I never knew this could happen. It has never happened to me. I hope it never does. I fear I have no such super power. All this time I thought dog hair just made me look like I got dressed in a dumpster. Gah!
I get it sometimes, stuck in the sole of my feet. 🙁
Haha that must be irritating. 😉 Hope you are having fun at Blog Paws.
Bailie and I don’t shed much, but Katie sheds for the entire family and more! We left her home this trip, so Mom is thrilled to be fairly fur free for 6 days.
Hi Y’all!
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Hawk aka BrownDog
You know it’s funny, I have never had a dog hair sliver, but my hubby gets them at least on a daily basis!!!! I often tell him he’s full of crap, and he is faking it, but I know their real hahahaha!
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I’ve really never thought about this, having Poodles and small dogs.
But i do think you should consider doing stand up comedy with some of your blog posts. They are funny enough to read, but adding your personal touch to them would be Comedy Club worthy.
Siriusly.
I know exactly what you mean about those errant bastardly hairs! Thank Dog Sam is a poodle and doesn’t really shed, otherwise, I’d be holding a mini Dyson in my hands all day long (and he HATES the vacuum)! Have a great time at the BlogPaws. 🙂
Most of Barley’s hair doesn’t bother me–which is good because it’s ALWAYS on my clothes no matter how often I lint roll–but I have definitely had the slivers in the feet and that is the worst thing ever! I don’t know how it can be so soft and fluffy on her, but so painful for my poor feet.
I hate when that happens, it happens and it hurts! Hope your having a great time in Nashville.
Oh my gosh you’re so right about having those stupid hairs embedded and interwoven into clothing; it’s so frustrating. I still don’t understand how Laika ended up with such wiry thick hair considering she’s supposedly a Shepherd/Pit/Rottweiler mix – it just doesn’t make much sense. My last dog was an Aussie mix and his hair was long and soft – and it never found it’s way into all my belongings quite like Laikas does.