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Do any of you shave your eyebrows when your cats die? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apparently the Egyptians used to do this.

The mourning period is over after your eyebrows grow back

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i do not. i did shave my eyebrows once though. i had bleached my hair and it bugged me that they didn't match. but no eyebrows was such a worse look, so i wouldn't want to do it again. plus i think i'll need longer than a month of mourning if our cat died.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Oh interesting. Were you worried about bleaching your brows so close to your eyes?

Yes a month doesn't seem very long.

I can't find any more specific info on the mourning itself.

Except now I see from the same source that when their dog died, egyptians shaved off all the hair on their body. Huh.

Herodotus too, so grain of salt:

"And in whatever houses a cat has died by a natural death, all those who dwell in this house shave their eyebrows only, but those in whose houses a dog has died shave their whole body and also their head."