Quote Originally Posted by thistlelass View Post
Even short hair from animals can be spun-it might yeild less than close to the skin yarn, but it is spinnable. I spun short cat hair at a spinning conference last year as well as dog hair and even some New Zealand Opossum fur-very, very short staple,...a pain to spin, but spinnable all the same. Persian fur and others of that sort work well however and are almost as soft at Angora. They make nice warm sweaters, hats and scarves but a bit too fuzzy and girly for kilt hose.
What happened was I took a large bag of the undercoat the cats shed at the beginning of an Arkansas summer to a spinner in my college. She did manage to spin it into a beautiful pale golden soft yarn. I was delighted, but she said "not so quick" and tugged the two ends of the yarn, it immediately fell apart into just cat hair. My only attempt and experience with it. I do not know about all types of cats, we usually get ours from the shelter when needed.