So I finished all the housework about half an hour ago, and I'm looking at the floor that I just vacuumed, and I see a big old hair ball that Walnut shed. As a quick note, Walnut doesn't actually shed fur, but when it gets long, it kind of molts off, so instead of a few loose hairs here and there you would expect to see from shedding dogs, you get this a hairball that would choke most cats. Which I'm sure is why Walnut does it in the first place. Anyway, this molted hairball is sitting in the living room, right by one of the coffee tables as plain as day. But here's the thing: Walnut has been in the bedroom while I vacuumed! So how did that hairball get there?
I suppose it is possible that I missed it while vacuuming, but I really doubt that, because it is a big, black hairball in a sea of beige carpeting! So again, I ask: How did that hairball get there? Clearly, the only logical answer is that these hairballs, knowing their fate when sucked up into a vacuum, have somehow managed a system of locomotion to ensure that they can hide under couches, tables, etc. while the vacuum monster is out and about. Then, knowing that they will whither and die due to lack of sunlight, will again use this method of locomotion to come back out into a sun lit area of the carpet, where they can grow and multiple...as they do throughout the week.
I'm pretty sure this is the only logical explanation, so I am now looking into getting grant funding so that I can document this, as of yet unknown, form of hairball locomotion. I'm pretty sure that I can be published in Nature once my findings have been written up, as I don't think there is a journal dedicated to the correlation to hairball movement and vacuum proximity...it is still a young science.
In lieu of the running chart, I have instead added a chart about hairball locomotion.
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