Helpful Hint for Hairballs
When you have a long haired cat, you have to brush them often, to keep them from swallowing too much hair. Even with frequent brushing and combing, from time to time they need a little help digesting some of that indigestible stuff, and for that, veterinarians have devised a hairball gel that you (quoting loosely) put a large pearl sized drop on your finger and the cat will lick it off, because he loves the taste.
Yeh, right.
In the rare occurrence, it goes on to say, that a cat doesn’t like the taste, smear it on his paw and he will lick it off.
Something in my posture seems to give me away. The cat who normally sits and waits for me to come give him a pet or two runs as soon as he sees me coming with the hairball goo.
So today, oh so smart lady that I am, I saw him snoozing deeply, and I knew THIS was the time. And it was.
Helpful hint: when you put hairball goo on your cat’s paw, make sure you do it on the side or top of the paw, not on the bottom of the paw.
Once the cat starts running, there is hairball goo – EVERYWHERE.
Don’t do what I did. (scrubbing and scrubbing and seeing spots I’ve misssed.)
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I sometimes use olive oil, in the same way you apply the hairball remedy goo. I don’t know where I picked it up from but it’s what I used when I couldn’t find the goo.
Oh I have that stuff. Supposed to taste like malt. I say put it in malt liquor and get it over with. Besides, the stuff doesn’t work well. Or my cat doesn’t have hairballs.
I put a 1cm length on my fingertip & slide the finger in my cat’s mouth while holding him. So when he tries to pull away, it’s smeared all over the roof of his mouth.
Unless your cat is a biter, then give it a shot. & check my post on cat food in case you don’t know about the food poisoning going on. 🙂
Stinni, I like the olive oil idea . . . I think part of the problem has been my cat doesn’t really like meat. Maybe fish oil would work . . . ?
Mini R. . . he’s a biter. And a runner. Put my finger in his mouth . . . I don’t think so! LLLooooLLLLLLLLLL. I liked your post on the poisoned food. QC eats dry food, and the poisoned food was all wet/canned/pouched. Your list was a great resource, and thanks from all us cat people.
Oh, Intlxpatr – the tainted food ALSO INCLUDES DRY FOOD in the recall – it happend several weeks after the initial scare! My vet called and had me stop feeding the cats and had me return all of a certain type of dry food that had Wheat Gluten in it, as it is also suspect. We were so scared, because all 4 eat the same thing. But the vet did a thorough screen on The Lame One, as he is the most immuno-compromised and would have certainly felt the effects – and joyfully, his kidneys came back clear. Which was really amazing, given his overall health issues.. But the point here is that your dry food is not absolved. Check ingredients – avoid wheat gluten. Of course the good news, and practical side of the issue is… if QC was going to get sick, he would have done so by now.
Oh Sparkle! I had some bad moments this morning as I ran to check the cat food. It is not one of the brands listed on the updated list, but I suspect we all need to be careful. We don’t know what is in the food chain these days, do we, not only our little pets but also in OUR OWN!
QC did throw up the other night, but I think it was hairball related . . . .
Yay! Glad to hear (hairball and all)….. These sweet little rascals – I simiply couldn’t bear thinking I might have been giving them bad food. Auugh. Yes, our own food supply is always of concern, too. Difficult times, yet awareness is so much greater than 20 years ago – who knows WHAT we were eating in the early 80’s. At least stateside. Yuck!
you know I am not allowed to donate blood in the US because of all the years I lived in Germany? They think that mad-cow disease is a possibility because the meat supply could have been tainted.
Had no idea! Do they give a timelimit on the donation moratorium – or can one be a carrier for life? (Oh, please, it would be waaay too easy to make a bad joke here….)