Carmel resident Victoria Pettigrewcame up with VIP Fibers, a company in Morgan Hill.Be it dog hair cat hair, rabbit fur, goat hair, alpaca fleeces, llama fleeces, and other exotic fibers, they'll make it into yarn and even knit the sweater or afgan of your choice. Pettigrew started the company about three years ago after her 16-year-old Lhasa Apso, Karly, died. Pettigrew created a scarf from some of the hair she had saved from brushing Karly. Having the scarf gave her comfort when she missed Karly, and Pettigrew thought other pet owners might feel the same.
"I have a personal understanding of how it feels to lose a beloved pet, and we strive to treat every fiber entrusted to us as if the pet was 'visiting.' We work very hard and with the greatest care to send the pet back home as soon as possible and in loving condition," she said.
A majority of VIP Fibers' business is with dog hair, though the company has transformed hair from cats, sheep, alpaca, bison, rabbits, hamsters, cows and even horses. Customers come from across the United States, Canada and overseas, including England and Indonesia.
Pettigrew devotes a section of her Web site to discussing the merits of spinning pet hair into yarn. Yarn spun from dog hair, in particular, has been considered good luck in the past, and Pettigrew writes that it's 80 percent warmer than sheep's wool.
You'll pay a few hundred dollars, but who can argue the worth of having one's beloved pet keeping one warm well after the pet is in the cold, cold ground?
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This is just ... wrong.
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