r/oddlysatisfying 1d ago

Pulling out tufts from a husky

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u/Kurovi_dev 1d ago

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u/Tay_Tay86 1d ago

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u/KG354 1d ago

Fun fact: they're lazy nest builders because their ancestors nested in rocky crevices and didn't need to make nests. Or they're govt. drones. You pick

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u/willynillee 20h ago

Yeah they just put a few sticks around so the egg doesn’t roll off a cliff and then say good enough and call it a day.

Or they’re too busy spying on you. Tough to say, really.

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u/PrestigiousAd4246 1d ago

If you own a Husky, this is one of the least satisfying sights.

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u/AntitaxAntitax 1d ago

I own a Malamute and had 2 Huskies before her, there is hair in and on everything you own, I spit out so much dog hair throughout the day, people think I have a speech impediment. You go through a lot of hoovers, sometimes I am sure I can hear my hoover saying ..'Oh fur f23k sakes, not again when I switch it on. My hoover.......

https://giphy.com/gifs/iTnVKXAWDvRmw

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u/i_am_birdperson 1d ago

Mine passed away 3 years ago. I've moved 1000km away. I'm still finding fuzz. I'd give my left leg to have the source of all that back though. She was perfect.

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u/AntitaxAntitax 23h ago

I am so sorry to you for your loss, they are a remarkable breed who find their way into our hearts like their fur finds it's way into our food, and if you are lucky enough to have a great connection, then it's the best love in the world, as i'm sure you would agree. I hope you are doing okay now. My girl is getting on, she is 9 and a half now with a few health issues. There is not a day that goes by that I don't smother her in kisses, I make sure she knows she is loved while she is here with me.

I totally believe you when you say you are still finding fuzz. My neighbours have told me they find Blues hair in their hallways as they walk it in on their shoes from the stairwell. I share a building with 8 other flats, everyone gets a bit of Blue.

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u/Summoorevincent 8h ago

It’s been a year and I miss my old buddy everyday. I still find his hair on my stuff in the most random ways. He’s been everywhere I have even when he wasn’t with me 😢

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u/J0EP00LE 22h ago

Wasn’t sure if you were talking about your Hoover or your dog at first.

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u/QuesoDog 1d ago

I miss my big girl - when she blew her coat I could get a pile of fur the same size as her by the time the brushing was done.

RIP Queso

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u/taintosaurus_rex 16h ago

So you probably don't have answer to this, but why don't people spin yarn out of the fur they comb off and make things out of it? I'm sure it's not the best fur for yarn but if it's free or cheap, you'd think someone would find a way to make it work.

I 3D print and I've seen people buy buckets of trash plastic for melting down. If people are willing to buy that I can't see why someone would put out ads like "looking for dog fur".

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u/AntitaxAntitax 5h ago

Well Malamutes and Huskies have 2 coats, bottom coat which is very fine soft hair and the top coat which is more coarse. The undercoat is for very cold climates , which these breeds are suited for. The undercoat is very soft and has a very similar feel to cotton, it is so soft and when hand spun, it makes a very strong yarn. There are people who use the fur of these breeds to make all sorts of things. You can find videos on Youtube of people hand spinning the undercoat of these breeds to make yarn.

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u/Rapunzel10 2h ago

A few important reasons. Most individuals aren't willing to put so much time into that when clothing is so cheap. You can't farm a huge number of dogs the way you can sheep so this is all done in small batches which increases the cost. So dog fur is more expensive than wool, cotton, and synthetics. Other fibers from animals like wool and silk have longer staple lengths (the length of the fibers) which make them easier to spin, stronger, and softer. It's more akin to angora wool (from the angora rabbit) in staple length but isn't as soft. So yeah some people use dog hair to make things, but more for novelty than practicality. Sure the fur is free but it takes a ton of time to process it for a subpar product

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u/yoko_OH_NO 1d ago

The husky in the video doesn't even make any complaints known about it. My dad is always pulling tufts of fur off his husky and the dog makes the funniest noises the entire time. I unmuted the video fully expecting to get a chuckle out of the husky trash talk, but nothing. Disappointing. 

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u/APence 23h ago

My half husky doesn’t bark but I’ll grab a tuft from her butt when we’re walking up stairs and she just turns around to try and punch me. Thinks it’s a game

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u/datflanger 1d ago edited 16h ago

Huskies only blow coat twice a year, tho! January through July and July through December x.x

Our husky acts like he's dying if I pluck a single tuft lmao

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u/FaceMcShootie 12h ago

I vacuumed 12 minutes ago and we have clumps already forming.

I’m sick of sheddy season.

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u/miraculum_one 22h ago

in part because it never ends

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u/eltoratio 1d ago

It is even not satisfying to watch this. I guess it will be the most boring thing I see today.

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u/NoseInternational794 1d ago

A gif just doesn't do this experience justice. I'mma need THE DESPERATE DRAMATIC HOWLING

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u/MattGald 1d ago

He's pretty cool with me doing it actually

I know. I think my husky's broken too

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u/AntitaxAntitax 1d ago

My Malamute acts like i'm stealing her soul to sell to Satan if I dare pull out a tuft

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u/NoseInternational794 1d ago

Hahaha that's good to hear. SOMEONE had to get a normal one 😂

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u/SiriMythkiller 1d ago

Our Husky mix is actually very quiet as well but loves to "talk" when she gets excited or impatient. We also did a lot of training with her while she was young so she knows what noises are appropriate for inside versus outside.

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u/FaceMcShootie 12h ago

Mine has barked… 12 times in the 5 years I’ve known him? Crazy business. Doesn’t awoo either.

But boy, when he plays it sounds like he’s growling the entire time! I love the furball

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u/RGBAddict2026 1d ago

Me when I have a feather pillow

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u/levosis1 1d ago

That hair on a summer night could make a pillow.

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u/Competitive-Raise445 1d ago

Summer coat shed, need a good brushing/grooming and get ready for winter

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u/Mammoth_Tusk90 1d ago

Is that what’s happening? All of my dogs are shedding their fur in chunks. I brushed the fluffiest and a bucket of hair came out. I don’t remember this happening at the end of summer but I guess it makes sense that it happens twice a year. My floors are covered in dust bunnies. I have multiple vacuums and they’re constantly full.

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u/whatarethuhodds 1d ago

Depends on your dog. Usually double coated breeds will shed year round, but will go into overdrive in months that have big temperature shifts to produce a coat more appropriate for the season. My Aussie needs brushed almost every other day. But in the months leading to summer and winter you could stuff a king sized pillow with his shed at the end of every day.

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u/Michami135 1d ago

You're going to be at that a while

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u/MattGald 1d ago

And love every minute of it

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u/JohannesMP 1d ago

A while? It never stops

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u/AppleMelon95 12h ago

Legit, I once spent a solid 15 minutes just combing our husky once and it didn't stop. It is endless.

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u/TugleyWoodGalumpher 1d ago

It's so oddly satisfying seeing piles of fur under every surface and in every corner. For sure.

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u/CrouchingDomo 1d ago

If you leave it long enough, you get to see how planets are formed in real time! Just little balls of dust, floating around, glomming onto each other to make a bigger ball, and bigger, and bigger…

Jupiter is under the couch, is what I’m saying.

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u/waiting-for-the-sun 1d ago

Where I don't have to look at them

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u/knewmawnick 1d ago

This reminds of a time when I saw a bird come by to take tufts from my golden retriever for it’s nest

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u/AndyPanda321 17h ago

I once threw some Akita floof out of an upstairs window and a small bird caught it in mid air a flew away with it! 😅

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u/knewmawnick 15h ago

🤣 circle of life

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u/kar132435 1d ago

Spitz doggos are the gnarliest shedders. We have a Shiba and he sheds all four seasons, nights, weekends, and holidays.

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u/Lumbert_Jack 1d ago

You could build another husky from the amount of fur coming off that one

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u/3767_doomscroller 1d ago

You can do this for hours and have a room filled with tufts and still the same Husky. They are like a magic tuft dispenser.

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u/SP3NGL3R 1d ago

Gosh am I glad they make combs for this.

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u/yeahokaywhateverrrr 1d ago

It’s picking season! My blonde German Shepherd mix sheds year round but it really ramps up at least twice a year. Plucking out the tufts is one of my favorite things to do. It’s so satisfying, even if he only lets me do it for a few minutes at a time.

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u/GotLostFindingMyself 1d ago

Husky owners are finding this especially satisfying

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u/Dontneedflashbro 1d ago

It's extremely satisfying to do this with your doggo. 

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u/SilasTalbot 1d ago

Hair. That's all we do, eat, sleep, and make hair.

SO MUCH HAIR, I can't believe how much my wife and my cat make, I find it everywhere.

Why. Why I ask you do we make SO MUCH OF THIS STUFF.

I think the hair is running things. Its mission is to spread itself to every surface, down every drain, into the sky, out to space, take over the universe. We are but its growth medium.

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u/upvotes_animals 1d ago

My girl, Ripley. Is on her last legs. I'm crying every night worried and unsure on how I'm going to handle it. Husky beagle.

She's the best thing in my life and I don't know what to do after her..

https://reddit.com/link/p7j8hgl/video/920jlow8d9nh1/player

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u/MattGald 1d ago

Just imagine how happy she is that she gets to have a human like you though ❤️

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u/lucky_duck789 1d ago

Not satisfying at all. That hair game is weak. Give em another month and you will have handfuls.

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u/Striking_Length_2515 1d ago

Yes I’m so addicted to this and do this whenever he lays down lol..

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u/I_love_Hobbes 1d ago

I called my husky moldy butt after winter as they are blowing their winter coat.

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u/BeerStein_Collector 1d ago

My golden retriever loves it when I do that. She also really likes being brushed. I’ve never had a dog enjoy being brushed (hair taken off on purpose) as much as her.

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u/MildlyConspicuousCat 1d ago

I love that job.

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u/AntitaxAntitax 1d ago

My current Malamute, and past Huskies did not like having tufts pulled out, they'd act like I was stealing their soul, looky, no touchy human!

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u/Rescuepets777 1d ago

My son had a dog (we have no idea what breed he was) whose whole back side would puff up with tufts like that when he got scared. His fur would be normal and suddenly was a huge puff ball. It was oddly satisfying to pull the tufts out.

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u/JohannesMP 1d ago

Huskies are 50% fur and 50% sass

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u/rangda 1d ago

Local nesting birds love this one simple trick

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u/MollysTootsies 1d ago

Ahhh, I see your doggo crop is producing a bountiful harvest of floofs!

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u/NotStarrling 1d ago

I used to love doing that with my Golden/Shepherd mix and our Border Collie mix. They loved it too. I miss that. ❤️

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u/ClassicParticular240 1d ago

I'm so sorry for your furniture. 😭

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u/S0k0n0mi 1d ago

Crack out the leaf blower, let the whole neighborhood enjoy.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 1d ago

FURRICAINE WARNING!

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u/xiaoli 1d ago

Show us the inside of your PC

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u/Which-Bid7754 1d ago

pup feathers!

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u/grimsb 1d ago

BUTT FLUFF!!!

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u/plan_with_stan 1d ago

Pulling out hufts from a Tuftsky

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u/JPK12794 1d ago

I did this to my German Shepherd and he always looked offended and wanted to take his hair back.

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u/DoctrTurkey 1d ago

lol reminds me of those videos where people are cleaning out the dead leaves from their succulents

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u/Lixay 1d ago

It's not just huskys, I have a golden retriever and do this, if not you just find white clumps around the house

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u/zyyntin 23h ago

Keep going you'll soon have two huskies.

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u/happycj 18h ago

I used my malamute tufts as snow in a little winter holiday display once. I know. It’s weird.

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u/Gnoobl 7h ago

The only thing missing is the dog locking back at the camera with a “Can I help you?” expression on his face.

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u/vv33cl 1d ago

TIL: tufts

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u/Gunningham 1d ago

Anyone else remembering that creature from Star Trek II?

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u/MissBandersnatch2U 1d ago

Get an Equigroomer, best money you'll spend!

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u/Aggravating_Kick2911 1d ago

Groomer visit needed

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u/J-e-restorationpros 1d ago

I have a great pyr mix and this is year round

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u/Zillarex532 1d ago

I used to love doing that with my husky. It was always satisfying

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u/Epin-Ninjas 1d ago

I’m itching to take a brush to it until I can’t grab any more

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u/KitterKat01 1d ago

My husky don’t mind me doing this unless it’s her butt tufts then she gets mad. I’ll see the tufts and be like come here let me get the tufts and she will look t me like really? Again?

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u/Vicker_Schultz 1d ago

Enough fur to make 2 husky

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u/Chili_Clause 1d ago

You know you can use a brush to do that faster

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u/Lawcke 1d ago

This is less satisfying and more "the nightmare from which I cannot wake up"

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u/Vash-d-Stampeede 1d ago

Do it long enough, you'll have another dog. 😆

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u/ChangeChameleon 21h ago

We call them carrots 🥕

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u/BobTheFettt 21h ago

I do this to my car and she absolutely loves it

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u/Future_Literature335 17h ago

I have trichotillomania and this is basically what I'm like with my own scalp

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u/cwthree 15h ago

I remember pulling tufts out of our husky and dumping them into a paper grocery bag. I'd fill the bag and there would be no discernable change in the dog. They're floof machines.

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u/No_Collection7360 14h ago

We call them rabbits.

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u/GuthramNaysayer 13h ago

Ours is the same and right now is cuhrazee tuft time.

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u/SnooDingos5518 9h ago

The Furminator is the cure for this 

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u/FillBrilliant6043 8h ago

You know, our vet said that she thought our mutt had some husky in him, and he had these all the time, so it makes sense!

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u/Awktung 17h ago

Just. Get. A. Danged. Comb. Or. Brush!

https://giphy.com/gifs/hvGXqRDxY19b8mRQGg

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u/cheesefan2020 22h ago

Is that the name of them? I call them butt plugs

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u/Awktung 17h ago

An illustration or tutorial video is called for...just remember the NSFW tag please!

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u/cheesefan2020 13h ago

Hahahaha , it’s because they are usually the backside of the dogs and just seemed like the first words that popped in my head

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u/12-34 1d ago

I'm sorry about your dog. Hopefully the chemo's working and they're back to normal in no time!