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fur short, very fine and soft hair. Valuable as pelts for use in cold climate and high fashion garments. fur animal animals bred or trapped in the wild for their pelts. Includes mink, sable, otter, lapin, ermine, marten. fur ball accumulations of fur, swallowed during the natural grooming procedures of cats, can be a cause of vomiting, enteritis and uncommonly intestinal obstruction. Most troublesome in longhaired cats and those with skin disease that prompts more grooming. fur-bearing animal see fur animal (above). fur clipping chewing of fur by captive mink rendering the pelt useless. A vice apparently caused by cage boredom. fur mite see lynxacarusradovsky. fur seal alopecia caused in captive seals by overgrooming, a displacement activity. Alopecia occurs on the head and the posterior body, the easiest places for the seal to scratch. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Worst thing ever done for ``Date Movie'': Spitting up a fur ball composed of father-of-the-groom Bernie Fonckyerdoder's (Fred Willard) sweaty chest hair. is a bird dog, and his nose tells him something is amiss even before the box bursts open and a brown fur ball zooms by him, leaking all over the place. After a Eugene artist wins acceptance in the annual Mayor's Art Show with a paint-splotched section of wooden wall used as a backdrop to put advertising on LTD buses, copycat artists go to work for the 2003 show, the two early favorites being "Cantaloupe Rinds Extracted from Compost Pile" and "Fluffy's Fur Ball Petrified on End Table. |
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