Cat Mom Repurposed Tumbleweed Into A Cowboy Hat For Her Cat
"I think she knew she looked pretty and was happy to show off.”
Meet Faye. She is a fun-loving, playful and adventurous cat.
All her little adventures leave her hair in every nook and cranny of the house. “Even though I brush my cats and clean regularly, I always joke that my house looks like the wild west because of all the cat fur, and the AC blows them so they look like little fur tumbleweeds floating around in the air,” Faye’s mom, Taylor Nelson shared.
“Faye especially has been shedding a lot lately and I end up with these huge balls of fur after brushing her.”
With all the fur flying around the house, Nelson decided that she should make something with it.
As she is not a very crafty person, she thought it should be something easy, not involving too many technicalities. Keeping all this in mind, she decided on making a cowboy with the tumbleweed.
“I’ve seen people online do like whole art pieces with their cat’s fur, but I’m not that crafty, so I went with a cowboy hat that, honestly, barely looks like a hat,” Nelson told.
She further added, “I’m sure if someone was into felting they would have a way better method to make a fur cowboy hat, and the way I did it was probably way wrong. I had so much fur after brushing her that I just smushed it all into a ball and basically molded it like a ball of clay until it looked kind of, barely, a hat.”
There was still Faye's reaction to consider about the fur hat. Considering how hyperactive she is, her mom thought it would be impossible to get her picture taken with the hat on her head.
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“For some reason, she just sat there and let me put it on, and when I first put it on, she tilted her head into it like I was petting her, and looked so pleased with it,” Nelson told.
“She’s definitely the princess of the house and loves attention, so while I don’t know if she actually cared about the hat itself, I think she knew she looked pretty and was happy to show off.”
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Nelson did try out the new fur hat on her cat Spike also.
Although she was not very much interested in it, the hat looked nice on her too. Since Spike has shed little of his fur, therefore, Nelson could not make him his own hat.
Nonetheless, he basically slept through the photoshoot that Nelson was trying to do on him and didn't want him to feel left out.
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Nelson did not put much effort into making the cowboy hat, although Faye liked it pretty much.
But she hopes to make more crafty stuff with the fur in the future instead of letting it go to waste. “It'd be really fun to see what else I can make with all of this fur,” Nelson remarked.
“If I have to live in a fur sandstorm, I might as well make the most of it.”
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