Me too, although I tend to get it from the source, not the brush! I do find though that Labrador Retriever hair is naturally water resistant, so it's not that great for nymphs, but it does make fairly good tailing on small drys. I've got a stripped gray (dun) cat that makes excellent sow bugs and scuds, very spikey/buggy looking, although it is getting much harder to catch him as lately when he sees me coming at him with scissors he takes off at mach 1. I've discovered that even a fat, overweight cat can run quite rapidly!

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"If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each."

~John Gierach


[This message has been edited by Darryl (edited 13 October 2005).]