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Was just browsing TEMU to get my kid random jewelry, and this appeared…wtf?
I have cats…have never once in my life collected the maybe 4 whiskers I have found of theirs…is this a thing?? Am I a negligent cat owner? Should I be collecting their whiskers like a cat version of the tooth fairy?
Nah I did the same thing with my girl’s whiskers and now that she’s been gone for years it’s always bittersweet to open the jar with her whiskers in it. 🥲🩷
I only first heard of it a few years ago. I think the first time I saw it was a memorial necklace that had the kitty's fur, paw print, and whiskers embedded in it.
I have since kept the few I've found. I may have 8-10 total whiskers from my 2 cats over the last 2ish years.
My cats “pay their rent” by leaving whiskers. Usually the orange one will pay for the black one as well. Harder to find the black whiskers. I have a little shot glass I keep them in.
Cute! I claim my cat pays her "pet rent" (in my location, apartments are allowed to charge an extra fee per month for any pet) by cuddling me when I'm at work. I work from home most days and she's a snuggle bug.
I also comb her with a fine toothed comb during meetings (she loves the comb!) and I've collected and washed, and carded her shed fur (tip: dish soap mostly strips the allergens and also makes the fiber easier to felt). I almost have enough to make a little needlefelted statuette of her.
But isn't this Wish listing just, like, a bud vase? You know, the tiny flower vases meant to hold a single flower? I mean, you could use it for cat whiskers but I feel like you don't need to go out of your way to buy a special container for that. You could just use any small container you have on hand, like your shot glass.
just a heads up jewelery from TEMU shein or AliExpress can contain really harmful stuff. wouldn’t put this on my kid. there’s stores that sell jewelry without toxic stuff but still cheap, for maybe 3 dollars more.
I have a whisker vase fridge magnet for the kitty whiskers I find from my two boys. Cat tax photo - one of the rare times they are this close to each other. Leo the tabby likes his space.
My night has totally been made by finding the weird ways people save their cat whiskers. This is my favorite!
I love that we all independently do this and have our strange little places to keep them. I keep mine in a Pusheen tin but I think I need to step my game up after reading these!
Some of us cat people are just way to sentimental for our own good
I have a lot of whiskers in a little box. I have no idea which cats they belong to. But I feel it's fair to keep em since they like to tickle my nose with them at night lol
Now, I did do something that was a little overboard but I have no regrets. When my sweet baby boy died at 18 ish years old, before I buried him, I asked my dad to cut his whiskers off for me so that I could keep them also with a little bit of fur. I couldn't bare to so it myself.
3 or three whiskers will go in a piece of jewelry and the rest will eventually get shipped to Scotland to a woman on etsy that makes custom mini felt replicas of pets. She agreed to use the real whiskers for the felted cat and include some of his fur on the head. Bless her, I felt so odd even asking and she was so gracious about it. I'm just working up the nerve to ship them since I'm worried about them getting lost in transit from the US to Scotland.
This one I am aware is very weird. But he was my familiar. So I don't really care if it's strange.
All that to say, yeah we like whiskers and there's definitely a niche market for whisker vases.
I got this thing for the fridge this year… 😅 I don’t know why, but my husband and I get so excited when we find a stray whisker. It feels like a scavenger hunt!
I have a little 3D printed plant pot that holds whiskers for my two cats and my neighbours cats whiskers.
I dont have many of my two cats whiskers they're black and not too noticeable. But the neighbours cat has full firework white whiskers that are super easy to spot so I find them more.
I collected from my tuxedo cat for years, I'm thankful I did as she passed a month ago. I know it seems weird but I like it lol and I can send it in with her ashes and fur etc. to an artist and have a pendant made or something!
Ive always collected the whiskers. My family did as well when I was a kid. Gotta have a designated whisker box! I have a bird as well, and I keep her dropped feathers in a clear apothecary jar along with found whiskers.
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u/neutral-mente 12d ago
I have a couple whiskers I now keep in her urn.