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.

Comments

[beegle.livejournal.com]

I was once told that, if you have allergies and live in a house with your own dryer, you should run it empty for a few minutes before you put your clothing in. The claimed culprit was the air intake for the dryer. Given cats' fondness for warm things like dryers, your dryer might be pulling in cat hair and blowing it onto the wet clothing.

[cellio]

Thanks for the tip. I'll try this next time.