Human Allergies to Cats

Human Allergies to Cats

If the humans in your life are allergic to cats (which can be diagnosed by your doctor or an allergy specialist), there are products which can help. If your cat scratches herself a lot, tearing out fur and even skin, and other possible causes have been ruled out by your vet, consider environmental or food allergies as the possible culprit (see our article “When Your Cat has Allergies“).

There are many products which can help alleviate allergy symptoms in humans. We will tell you about those we have used ourselves and offer suggestions about where you can buy them, as some are not readily available in hardware superstores or department stores. We are independent of any supplier and do not receive any income for these recommendations.

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How to Make Things With Your Own Cat’s Fur

A Yarn Of Feline Fur

Cat fur is fun to touch, whether on or off the cat! Our youngest son insists on keeping all brushed-out cat hair in a round container he calls his “hairball”. Having done some wool yarn weaving in years past, and while looking at the growing pile of hair I have brushed out of one of our cats each day, I began to idly wonder about the feasibility of weaving with shed cat hair.

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