VELCRO®

The VELCRO® brand of hook and loop was invented by a man named George de Mestral in the 1940's while hunting in the Jura mountains in Switzerland. 

Mr. de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, realized that the tiny hooks of the cockle-burs were stuck on his pants and in his dog's fur and wondered how they attached themselves.

From our walk this morning there were sticker pickers.

Millions of them.

It took a couple of hours but the FURminator got most of them removed.