..Just catching up on this thread...
My Fluffy, ChloeLouise, doesn't really shed much on a daily basis - that is not to say I don't go to work with an occassional hair on my black pants (or cringe when I find a stray long, white fur in my salad)
...but in general we feel fortunate not to have clouds of Chloe-fuzz drifting around the house...EXCEPT for a couple of weeks last summer when I "brushed" literally GLOBS of fur off her!! I use the verb "brush" loosely since she views "THE BRUSH" as a menace, her mortal enemy... and what I actually do is "swipe" at her as she goes frapping by me. Nevertheless, I was able to accumulate a plastic grocery bag full of her fluffy fur!! I AM a handspinner - and I DO intend to spin her fur (with some white wool) and make yarn to knit mittens!! We think that would be the ultimate irony for me to wear Chloe-mittens when I take her out for a winter walk!!
Altho we have laughed and thought that maybe I should knit her a sweater with her OWN fur!!