When I was a kid, we had an Angora cat - a breed that has long, thick fur. Pieces of excrement would stick to his fur and just stay there, hanging. We had to trim his hair to remove them.
Once, my sister was trimming the hair around his rear, and she called to our father for help. "Daddy, he keeps jumping when I try to cut this one off." He explained that it was not what she thought.