Remember When: Pioneers of Blowing Angora

In the last posts, Susan Conley's name came up as the first person who used a Mini Circ to blow her English Angora in 1989. How it started, according to Susan, was that the blower had been in her barn for the sheep. She was suffering from arthritis; it was hard to use the slicker to groom her rabbits. She figured that if the blower was good for the sheep, it might also be good for her English Angora.

The rest is history.

The above was a picture taken in 1991 convention. Left is Sandy Kelly, then president of NCAG; the middle is Susan Conley and the right is Betty with her big hairdo. Betty subscribed to Susan's blowing method and bought a Mini Circ right after the 1989 convention but it took Sandy at least a year before she was convinced that she also needed a Mini Circ.

Neither Susan nor Sandy raises rabbits now. Both of them had a good run in their rabbit habits.