second-hand cat hair

[cellio]

The laundry goes from the washer to the dryer to the basket to the dresser drawers, without interruptions. Once a shirt comes out of the dresser, it doesn't get back in except through this chain. The cats have never succeeded in opening the dresser drawers.

Given all that, how is it that I can remove a shirt from the dresser, put it on, and see cat hair on it almost immediately? Yeah, the stuff is undoubtedly in the air, waiting to attack, like pollen, but this isn't quite how I expected that to work somehow....

Maybe the dryer isn't doing its secondary job (lint removal) as well as it should. I'll have to pay more attention.

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[amergina.livejournal.com]

When I had very long hair, I noticed that my hairs would end up on my clothing (or tangled into the weave of the fabric) even if I's just taken it out of the laundry.

I don't think washing/drying always gets rid of hair from clothing. I think it gets rid of most hair... but not all.

So, the cat hair might be*really clean* hair that just stubbornly clung to your clothes during the washing process.