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Hair balls?
My cat Emily's BMs have greatly improved to perfectly normal since her diet
change to canned Wellness - no more diarrhea, soft ones, or horrible smells. Hope it lasts. But now she's started getting hairballs (at least I'm pretty sure it's hairballs) every day. Maybe the Wellness has less fiber or something than Fancy Feast which I used to feed her. Once in a while she hacks up a lot of liquid too. Big mess to clean up, almost as bad as vomit. sigh I'm trying adding a half teaspoon fiber to her food spread over three meals; that used to help. Read that in one of my cat books. I groom her every day, as I have all her life (she's a short-hair). The fiber sure works for me; I've taken two generous doses a day for decades and hardly ever get hairballs! Any other hairball treatments you've successfully tried if this doesn't work? Preferably something I can put in her food; giving her medications is very difficult to say the least! -- "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner |
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Try planting some oat grass for her to nibble on.
---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Ken,
Sorry to sound gross, but are you seeing hair clumps when you clean up the vomit? It would look like a clump/lump, usually cigar shaped. Seems unusual to me that she would get hairballs if you brush her daily. Doing this daily doesn't sound good--you might call your vet's office and ask. If she were doing this weekly, I wouldn't worry, but daily is not normal IMO. Your comment about more hairballs since starting Wellness is curious. Since my cats have been on canned Wellness (and some Evo), we've had fewer hairballs. You can try and add a teaspoon of plain canned pumpkin to her food and mix that in. (Some cats like pumpkin and will eat it as a treat.) If she's currently experiencing hairballs, you can give her Petromalt or other hairball remedy for a few days (don't give near her feeding time. It will reduce absorption of nutrients.) Rene |
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"KenK" wrote
Any other hairball treatments you've successfully tried if this doesn't work? Preferably something I can put in her food; giving her medications is very difficult to say the least! KenK, what works for mine and is gentle with no harm, is to add extra fat to my cats diet. I've normally had up to 4 cats at a time for many years and this works better for long term use than those tubes (which are essentially seeming to me to be exlax for cats). Some cats it doesn't work as well with if animal based fats but I've not had a problem yet with a little olive oil added. It doesn't cause diarrhea or any absorption problems but does seem to 'speed the hairball along' so it becomes part of the kitty litter leavings ;-) Do run this by your vet, especially if yours is allergy prone (a situation I've never had). Fats I have used: Rendered generally, chicken, pork, beef, fish oils, olive oil, duck, and butter (melted and you make ghee which is clarified butter). |
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KenK wrote:
It will take a few weeks to grow. (referring to oat grass) I am constantly growing oat grass and find it only takes one week. I water it twice daily and grow it by a window. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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That pumpkin was very hard to find. I finally found a large can in the third store I tried. $3! sigh Better work! I should have mentioned that it might be harder to find. I had heard that canned pumpkin will not be as plentiful this year, due to rain/ rotting of crops in the fields. :-/ |
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