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'Temptations' anti-hairball snacks?
"KenK" wrote in message ... "Bill Graham" wrote in : "KenK" wrote in message ... "cshenk" wrote in : As we started, I will try to help but do not use this method in any deliberate manner. I was given the impression that a little more was needed but if the average on a search shows 1 TS, use that then and ignore me. I'll stay with 1 tsp if it works; I can always increase if it doesn't. Well, for four or five days of pumpkin, no hairballs. I was getting them almost daily. Then last night something new - instead of a small patch of hair in a puddle of thin vomit I got a big moist hairball all by itself. Didn't see it come out since it must have done so quietly as I was reading or sleeping in another room. Evidently the pumpkin had something to do with this but I don't know what. It's a big improvement for me, but I don't know about Emily. Well that beats what happened to my Meggie....Her's was so big the vet thought it was a tumor.....She operated on Meggie with the understanding that if it had metastasized, she would put her down......After opening up her abdomen, she found Meggie's stomach was huge and filling her whole abdomen. So, they opened up her stomach to find a huge hairball. "The biggest one I have ever found" said the vet. So they took it out, and Meggie has been fine ever since...(Two years now) But the whole thing cost me over $800.......:^) I hope at least they gave you that expensive hairball as a remembrance. g Emily got plugged up with hair and couldn't hold down her food many years ago but it came out ok at the vet with an enema (IIRC) and laxative. My introduction to Laxatone. Emily went four days with pumpkin and without a hairball but now two in a row. The one previously described yesterday and the usual vomit and small amount of hair today. sigh I'm going to increase her to two teaspoons of pumpkin, if she'll eat it. If that doesn't do it I give up. Evidently nothing works with her. I believe I've tried everything she'll tolerate. sigh Maybe a diet change would do it but I had so much trouble with diarrhea and soft BMs before I switched her to canned Wellness I hesitate to experiment again. Poor Emily! Well, I am not a vet, and I tend to take the direct approach.....I would brush the hell out of her, and perhaps even use one of these razor-type devices that remove much of the excess hair. If there is nothing for her to ingest, then she can't get any hairballs. If she is an inside cat, then you can just keep the house, or some part of the house nice and warm for her, and she won't need any hair at all....... |
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'Temptations' anti-hairball snacks?
"Bill Graham" wrote in
: "KenK" wrote in message ... "Bill Graham" wrote in : "KenK" wrote in message ... "cshenk" wrote in : As we started, I will try to help but do not use this method in any deliberate manner. I was given the impression that a little more was needed but if the average on a search shows 1 TS, use that then and ignore me. I'll stay with 1 tsp if it works; I can always increase if it doesn't. Well, for four or five days of pumpkin, no hairballs. I was getting them almost daily. Then last night something new - instead of a small patch of hair in a puddle of thin vomit I got a big moist hairball all by itself. Didn't see it come out since it must have done so quietly as I was reading or sleeping in another room. Evidently the pumpkin had something to do with this but I don't know what. It's a big improvement for me, but I don't know about Emily. Well that beats what happened to my Meggie....Her's was so big the vet thought it was a tumor.....She operated on Meggie with the understanding that if it had metastasized, she would put her down......After opening up her abdomen, she found Meggie's stomach was huge and filling her whole abdomen. So, they opened up her stomach to find a huge hairball. "The biggest one I have ever found" said the vet. So they took it out, and Meggie has been fine ever since...(Two years now) But the whole thing cost me over $800.......:^) I hope at least they gave you that expensive hairball as a remembrance. g Emily got plugged up with hair and couldn't hold down her food many years ago but it came out ok at the vet with an enema (IIRC) and laxative. My introduction to Laxatone. Emily went four days with pumpkin and without a hairball but now two in a row. The one previously described yesterday and the usual vomit and small amount of hair today. sigh I'm going to increase her to two teaspoons of pumpkin, if she'll eat it. If that doesn't do it I give up. Evidently nothing works with her. I believe I've tried everything she'll tolerate. sigh Maybe a diet change would do it but I had so much trouble with diarrhea and soft BMs before I switched her to canned Wellness I hesitate to experiment again. Poor Emily! Well, I am not a vet, and I tend to take the direct approach.....I would brush the hell out of her, and perhaps even use one of these razor-type devices that remove much of the excess hair. If there is nothing for her to ingest, then she can't get any hairballs. If she is an inside cat, then you can just keep the house, or some part of the house nice and warm for her, and she won't need any hair at all....... Good thinking! Rather obvious but it hadn't occured to me. I'll check out grooming tools. Someone else mentioned a grooming glove. I'm going to Walmart tomorrow - I'll see what they have. Also, perhaps instead of grooming her just at noon, I'll groom her also in the morning and evening; she enjoys it so that shouldn't be a problem. Trouble is, doesn't seem to take much hair to set off her hairball/vomit alarm sequence. Sometimes I can't even see any hair, most of the time there is very little, just a very thin patch the size of a quarter, if that. -- "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner |
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'Temptations' anti-hairball snacks?
On Aug 1, 8:47*am, KenK wrote:
Anyone tried the Whiska's 'Temptations' hairball control cat snacks? I've unsuccessfully tried everything else I'm aware of or heard about here (anti-hairball food I've tried gives her diarrhea). BM problems? Other problems? I'm going to try Google later this morning. TIA -- "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner Ken, I'm new to this group, but I have a longhaired Himalayan who sheds enough hair in the summer that you could knit another cat out of it. I brush him twice a day and use a Furminator, but what I haven't seen in all the replies is the use of a gel to help. Some websites said that a dollop of Vaseline works, but I was reluctant to use that. Instead, I bought a tube of Hartz Hairball Remedy Plus (looks a little like Vaseline in a toothpaste-type tube) for about four bucks. It's salmon-flavored, so my cat licks it off his paw when I use it - about twice a week. He's on his second tube, and I don't know how much it helps, but it sure didn't hurt. Tom |
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