Tired of Cleaning Your Cat’s Hair All Around the House? Turns Out, Your Garden Has a Good Use for It

Having a fluffy cat as a pet is all cheerful and adorable until they shed their hair all over your home. It’s traumatic to pull out a grubby clump of hair from the carpet or your couch. But thankfully, you can use them for an interesting purpose: shooing away hungry animals that might be disturbing your plants. Writing in Better Homes & Gardens, homeowner Emily Williams shared how her mom’s remarkable advice of using “cat’s hair” helped her protect her plants from a colony of pestering rabbits.

When Williams moved into this new house, she found herself harbouring a bitter animosity towards rabbits that seemed to have invaded her brand new garden. One day, after waking up, as she walked to the garden to say hello to her plants, her jaw dropped open. These rabbits had munched away a rose bush, which was one of the first things she had planted in the backyard. The tiny pink flowers sprouting from the buds suddenly disappeared in thin air. “I woke up one day to find the bush gone, with only a few inches of stem remaining,” she described.

At first, her suspicions fell on her husband. Maybe he had accidentally pruned her roses, she wondered. But then, her curious eye detected the evidence she needed to solve this mystery. The ravaged plant displayed some “clean, diagonal cut” marks, seeing which, she was finally able to realize that the culprit was actually these rabbits. Horrified at what these cute, fluffy animals could do to her plants, she communicated her worries to her mom.