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What is a good hairball remedy for cats? Homemade or commercial, any hints appreciated…?
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13 Comments
April 6th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Okay I’m not sure what it is called but you can get a tube of it from your vet or go to petsmart petco where ever and get the treats with it inside them! 1 of my cats have the same prob!
April 6th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
http://www.vetinfo4cats.com/cibd.html
April 6th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
You can buy Petromalt for several dollars, or do what I did and give your cat a little bit of plain petroleum jelly. You can get it at your local dollar store pretty cheap. It’s edible, won’t make the cat sick, and if you put it on the cat’s paw they will naturally lick it off thereby ingesting it.
I started doing this when I realized one of Petromalt’s main ingredients was petroleum jelly. You may have to flavor it with maple syrup or sugar to get the cat to really like it, but mine never cared that it was plain petroleum jelly.
Also, brushing your cat with the right brush (depending on whether it is long hair/medium hair/short hair) will help to cut back on the hairs it ingests when it cleans itself.
April 6th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
it sounds really weird, but my cats love to eat vaseline, I let them have at total of a teaspoon per month and it works wonderfully. (I read the hairball-formula tube once and that was what they used as the 99% inactive ingredient— it’s pretty active for us- no hairballs ever!)
April 6th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
YES
Get some margarine and put a huge blob of it on your cat’s paw. Really squish it on there. The cat will lick it off and this helps a LOT with hairballs. We did this for all of our cats. It works great. I would suggest doing this every two weeks or so as maintenance.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
If you have some Vaseline you can try that first, most cats will lick it right off the spoon, or you can mix a little tuna juice with it. For chronic hairball problems, give your cat about 1/2 tsp twice a day, and BRUSH them as much as they’ll let you.
If Vaseline is a no-go, there is a product called Laxatone, it’s basically flavored Vaseline but it’s a little softer, you can put the tube in a glass of hot water and warm it up and mix it in with their food, or put a little bit on their paws for them to lick off. Same dosage applies, and also the brushing.
After about a week of treatment twice a day, you can reduce the number of doses to once a day, or once every other day, basically as little as necessary so you don’t waste your stuff or give them diarrhea.
By the way, butter or margarine is a BAD idea, the oils and fats in them can cause pancreatitis in cats.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
good foods use ingredients that help anyhow…
canned pumkin is excellent for helping – regular brushing helps too
best solution is good quality food (not grocery store or Wal Mart food) less filler = healthier skin = less shedding = less hair balls
April 6th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
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April 6th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Actually, the best hairball remedy I have found is prevention. I find that if I brush or comb my cats several times a week, there is much less fur on my furniture and fewer hairball incidents.
I use a fine-tooth flea comb on my shorthaired cats and an Evolution brush on the longhaired one. A groomer showed my how to hold the combs at a 45 degree angle to get the undercoat out rather than just smoothing the surface hairs.
April 6th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I buy something from the Dollar store and you can get the same thing anywhere. It is a little treat shaped in hearts that have hairball control. It says on the package how many to use. My grandmother uses it and it works for her also.
April 6th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
You should try to brush your cat quite often. This will make a difference.
Secondly, have you tried cat grass? This can also be quite helpful.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
If you brush your cat A LOT it will cut down on the hairballs, considerably. It’s not much fun to do, but they lick and swallow hair constantly! Brushing much of the loose hair off helps.
We buy Science Diet Hairball control…that helps, too. Even so, we squish those slimy things….every now and then, with bare feet. Yech! It has to be love for it to work. Ha.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Butter helps, your cat is OK. Thet just means your cat is well groomed. Try brushing the cat, if your cat likes it then you have removed all the hair your cat would have puked up. Butter just eases the transition from stomach to couch.