We have just had a whopper of a hail storm -- hail starting small then getting to be like marbles. This was followed by torrential rain. The gardens are flooded and the sidewalks are like rivers. The thunder and lightning have returned with more rain. In the 44 years I have lived here, I have...

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All of my cats regularly produce hair balls, some worse than others (Flo, Poppy). The malt hair ball remedy that "every cat loves" is loathed and won't be consumed, even when mixed in with their food. Adding anti-hair ball food would be difficult, So what can I do? Would something like cod liver...

Does anyone else find hair licking to be strangely pleasant? It's mostly Dot who's a licker here, but she likes to lick hands and faces - bare skin, with her raspy tongue. Buster licks hoomins much less often than she does, but if he thinks you're asleep, and you look like you need a grooming,...

Well, wasn't I boasting the other day that my cats had never hawked up a hairball? And indeed they hadn't, for years I'd never seen one at all, ever. I was out most of the day today sharing meals with relatives. I came home, lit the woodburner, sat on the rug in front of it to feed it and...I put...

I had my eight year old female cat at the vet on Wednesday because she can't bring up a hairball. The vet gave me laxatone for her. I've given her one teaspoon a day for three days. She now is making a girgling sp? noise. Does anyone know if this is normal? Other than this she is fine. Any...

I just thought I'd let you folks at RPCA know that today, Tuesday April 29th, is National Hairball Awareness Day here in Canada! For one thing, the Animal Health Care website tells us that a typical cat hairball isn't round but tubular, "approximately 1 cm. in diameter and about 4 cm. long." We...

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I don't know if it's the quirky weather or El Nino's rearing his head or what. We are just beset with hairballs this season, even those who ordinarily do not get them. Stosh, who has very short, sleek fur like a seal's, even has had his share; Sabrina, who has always had a sensitive tummy, has been...

I hope you all won't think this sounds stupid but as hairballs seem to be on the agenda right now, I would like to ask this: I have only ever had one hairball horked up from my cats, Kitty left me one on the rug about a year ago. I didn't even know what it was, and had to ask here! I imagined...

What do you use for hairball remedies for your fur children? I had been using Petromalt and another one, then I read that they may not be healthy for them to ingest. Thank you. Mommy of: BigBoy, Princess, Mr. Boots, Ms. Tigger, Sugar and Spice and Ms. Blue

So Mayhem has recently in the last year become comfortable with jumping on my lap and then walking all over my desk. I of course pet her and she sheds all over my keyboard and desk. Well last saturday I was running around trying to get my new apartment ready for the house (apartment) waming...

We just don't get them, normally. However, there was a strange thing on the doormat when I got home from work. It looked like a poo, with a tail on it. Panic..foxes have poo with tails on, is there is a fox coming right up to my house to get my chickens? Prolly not.. think it is our second...

Hi all... Just wanted to share a great discovery with everybody. I discovered an awesome deShedding Tool called the FURminator. I've been using it to deShed my cat Harry and haven't seen a hairball since. This tool is great and REALLY, REALLY works so if you have problems with hairballs then check...

Sumcat has been depositing hairballs around the house. I suppose they aren't really excessive in number or frequency as such things go, but I'd just as soon not have them. Or step on them. Since they started appearing after Cinnamon moved in, I'm pretty sure which cat is 'Sumcat'. No problem,...

My cat for the last 3 weeks started hacking up nothing. I think it reminded me of some school days and to much beer but nothing would come out after being over the toilet for 2 hours. I started giving her hairball remedy from Hartz 5 days ago. I think its making her hack more BUT still no...

A few times in the last week she's coughed up hairballs. She's normally right here with me when I'm online, but now she's curled up on the bed. She chatters at me when I walk into the bedroom. And she purrs contentedly when I stroke her. But she's content to stay there and just snooze. I've...

Biskit got groomed today. Certainly not for appearances' sake. She hates to be brushed, her hair is angora-fine, and oily. It's too long for her groom herself and she was a mess. And she had to be uncomfortably hot. She got a lion cut. She looks pretty funny, but very clean and smooth and soft and...

for some reason my kitty " moke" is losing his hair. it happened all of a sudden and nothing i am doing sees to work, i have tried giving him a bath, putting baby oil on him, i really dont know what else to do. so if anyone has any suggestions please . . . i will attemp any suggestion. thank you...

The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out...