Cat hair is the least of my worries, it is removable, my dear cat Daisy has a fetish for my bobbin box! I came home from work one day and she had played soccer with all of my bobbins and then fell asleep in a beautiful nest of colored threads! She was so tangled up in it I don't know how she didn't strangle herself! Bobbin box is now in a drawer not on the shelf. LOL