knit your own cat?

Now that we're back from New Mexico, I've been able to groom Bitzi properly - that orange fluffy one, persecuted by the others, but now back on solitary in my study.  She no longer looks like Brody, in Homeland, in his cell.   Here's the first long handful of matted and loose fur to be extracted.  I'm sure it ought to have some kind of use - probably I'll put it in the yard, in case some birds would like it as nesting material ...