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On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:28:32 -0700, "Bill Graham"
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"Mark Earnest" wrote in message
ca...
Neat trick. I wish I had thought of that. I use olive oil spread, I hope
that works. They won't pig out on it, will they?

They don't seem to....The vet suggested it to me, and I knew they liked
butter, cause they liked to lick my toast in the morning, so I put some in a
dish for them to lick, and it seems to work, cause they haven't had to have
any hairball surgery for the last couple of years......But I brush 'em too,
so maybe the butter doesn't do anything at all.......


Cat grass seems to help a lot also, or even normal grass. I have the
yard fenced in so they can't escape and I let them go out as often as
possible, but sometimes work and weather gang up - particularly in the
winter when it gets dark so early. But after a week or so of not
letting them out, they go out, eat grass, and later on I find a
hairball or two in the house mixed up with grass. The grass seems to
trigger them to upchuck a bit and out goes the hairball.

None of my cats has hairballs very often, in fact if I find more than
three or four a month (with three cats) it's unusual. So the fact that
I've noted a correlation between them eating grass and losing a
hairball is significant to me.

I don't know why they call them hairballs. Hairslugs is more to the
point.

"dgk" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:28:32 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:


"Mark Earnest" wrote in message
ca...
Neat trick. I wish I had thought of that. I use olive oil spread, I
hope
that works. They won't pig out on it, will they?

They don't seem to....The vet suggested it to me, and I knew they liked
butter, cause they liked to lick my toast in the morning, so I put some in
a
dish for them to lick, and it seems to work, cause they haven't had to
have
any hairball surgery for the last couple of years......But I brush 'em
too,
so maybe the butter doesn't do anything at all.......


Cat grass seems to help a lot also, or even normal grass. I have the
yard fenced in so they can't escape and I let them go out as often as
possible, but sometimes work and weather gang up - particularly in the
winter when it gets dark so early. But after a week or so of not
letting them out, they go out, eat grass, and later on I find a
hairball or two in the house mixed up with grass. The grass seems to
trigger them to upchuck a bit and out goes the hairball.

None of my cats has hairballs very often, in fact if I find more than
three or four a month (with three cats) it's unusual. So the fact that
I've noted a correlation between them eating grass and losing a
hairball is significant to me.

I don't know why they call them hairballs. Hairslugs is more to the
point.

Yes.....Meggie's hairball was a mixture of hair, grass, and normal stomach
contents.....She did eat grass in an attempt to get rid of it, but it gained
on her........:^)