Art follows life, I had a nice inspiration for a cartoon thanks to Jake the other night. He's a longhair, always shedding fur, and his ruff is HUGE, all the undercoat is like yak fur (thin, sticks to everything, you can't get away from it). When he sits down he leaves pieces of his belly fur behind as he stands, he gets his back claws stuck in it and small chunks pull free.
Lately he's been grooming his chest ruff (and yes, I brush him daily to avoid the HUGE hairballs he can heave). The stuff tangles, he yanks at it to clear the tangles out and usually swallows the fur he just pulled by doing that. He was on the table last night grooming, I turned to get something off the counter, turned back and there he sat, watching me alertly, with a BEARD hanging off his face! Totally unexpected! I made a quick grab to get it off his mouth before he swallowed it (it was quite large) and did manage to get hold.
Of course it's done up as a cartoon now.
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