If kept in a plastic bag it cause the wool to mat and felt unspinable. It has to breathe becouse it is a "living" product. Paper allows it to breathe also helps any orders disapate.
Buttercup I spin my own yarns and you use the undercoat just as in sheep wool. I never kill an animal just for wool. I do get combings from taxidermy shops from there rugging process but they are there becouse of some other reason not me.
Oh Glacier I would love a mix of the gang up there . I have an idea for a black (what else with the goof troop) and white yarn for a sweater coat.