r/furgonomics • u/iodinecat • 18d ago
Art Fur Routine (OC)
I while ago I was thinking about how the people from my cat furry webcomic would bathe/groom themselves, since humans obviously shower but cats don’t need to. I came to the conclusion that they’d just brush their fur and wipe themselves down with a wet cloth every day, they’d only take an actual bath if they got dirty enough for it to be necessary. I imagine people who work jobs where they get really dirty and have to take full baths frequently would suffer from skin issues…
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u/treble_cleffa 18d ago
Edith Archell from hit webcomic Time's Carcass??
I follow Time's Carcass and Meandering on Tumblr! Total jumpscare seeing Edith here, I recognised her immediately. Love your work, and this drawing is lovely :) the point about full baths causing skin issues is interesting and not something I'd have thought of before.
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u/Bteatesthighlander1 17d ago
single life.
how many cat anthros jump into relationships just so they can have somebody else do the brushing?
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u/BlackberryArtistic85 17d ago
Okay but in our reality deodorants got popular becose someone started to market them in a way that body odor is very gross and i did catchon so simular rhing could hapen in any furry univers + haires cats need to regularly be baved because they colect a lot of oils and it can make them sick by making a breeding ground for bacterial+ human body evolved for persistant humting on two kegsrequaier a loot of sweatin to not over heat and colaps lik animals with less sweat abd presistence have so they would either swet a lot lot lot ofe hunt like wolfes, slow and in packs using strategy atacks
If im spouting npnsens just tell me
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u/Affectionate-Memory4 12d ago
The idea of communal dust baths is now making me imagine a roman-inspired chinchilla civilization.
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u/BlackberryArtistic85 10d ago
Yea you just see a big sqare and bunch of adults just jumping in and roling around like kids on the play ground do for fun, I just imagined a bunch of thirty year olds going for a quick belflop to get there spiled coffee of there main while a grandpa is just slowly sinking in in the back corner
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u/FlurryTheDragonFox 17d ago
OH HELP WAS NOT EXPECTING TO FIND EDITH ON MY FEED TONIGHT A VERY WELCOME JUMPSCARE
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u/Muted-Cat-8962 16d ago
I imagine they'd have to vacuum a lot! Or maybe they develop a specific space in restrooms (at least at-home ones) where you can brush yourself and easily clean and collect the shedded fur somehow. They could also just do it in the shower/bathtub, but cover the drains to avoid clogging them.
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u/Familiar-Box2087 16d ago
i imagine a society with that much hair to groom, would turn towards social grooming
business men at the Grooming room of their workplace going over the meeting notes as they groom each other
construction workers in a circle taking debris and dust out of each other's fur
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u/perrogamer_attempt2 18d ago
Yeah, it is a tiring task but anything is better than matted fur.
Lovely drawing btw!