Oh no! She's allergic to WHAT?!

Last month I had a pretty impressive vet bill for my cat Mara because she needed an allergy test. She just keeps getting infections and irritations in her ears and other parts, and it will help her a lot if we find out what it is and work to desensitize her to it.

Well, the results came back today, with several positives. Ragweed and a few other weeds that don't surprise me. The dust mites I was dreading, but that can be handled. But then came the last thing on the list: sheep's wool.

SHEEP'S WOOL?! O_O

I knit and spin. There is sheep's wool EVERYWHERE. You walk in the living room, there's sheep's wool cat toys. (Well, not any more, but there was one sitting right in front of me as I talked to the vet.) Walk into my bedroom, there's a wool hat and pair of slippers on my dresser. We won't even talk about the craft room, with the wool spinning fiber and the wool yarn. Go downstairs, there's a flippin' fleece in the laundry room. My mittens are wool. My winter hat is wool. The scarf I just finished is wool! The sweater I'm knitting on is wool. The shawl I'm making... Well, that one's alpaca, so that's OK. But still!

I'm really not sure how I'm going to manage this one. I'll do my best to keep wool away from her, but there's so bloody much of it! 90% of my stash just became verbotten. And technically the other 10% is contaminated. Thankfully it's not a matter of life and death. Given that, though, and given how much of it there is,I think I'm going to have to go for a "minimal harm" model. Keep her out of the craft room, put wool items in that room as I find them, put her in another room if I want to work with wool outside of the craft room, always wash my hands after doing so (or wearing my mittens) before touching her,and trying to minimize or eliminate wool from future incoming stash. Any other ideas?

I guess, as much as the cover offends me, that a copy of No Sheep For You is in my future. I know my LYS carries it.

So, how about some vibes for the desensitizing medicine to work and work fast? (And hope she doesn't bite my hand off at getting pilled every single day.)