My hub used to threaten to make a toilet-seat-cover out of him! LOL!
I brush Husky girl every day at this time of the year, and into the spring. The raccoons and birds pick up most of the fur piles in the yard to use for nests/bedding-nothing goes to waste.
One spring when our Chow got his annual bear clip, my daughter and I saved the box of clipped hair with the intention of turning it into yarn, but we couldn’t figure out how to spin it. It ended up in a cat bed along with a package of pillow stuffing.