Thread: hair balls

Originally Posted by AggytheMC

Is it normal to have them hock them up every week? Is it possible to reduce it, my last cat hocked one up every few weeks....

No, not normal to have one per week, from our experience. One of ours has one and maybe sometimes two per month, while another one only a few times per year, and the other two (boys) never or almost never. Is is mainly during certain periods of the year yours is shedding? You can try that hairball lubricant.

The moggies we had at home rarely had furballs (I think over about seven years I saw it happen twice) - I thought it would be more likely for longer haired cats to have them? It's good to know that they're supposed to be irregular though, I hate furballs!

Jiminy has yet to cough up a hairball *finger crossed*

But I do have an 11 year old Somali who has bad hairball problems, she'll often be sick trying to get them up, we give her this Great Deals on Cat Pastes at Zooplus: Gimpet Malt-Soft Extra Paste. She loves having a squirt of it and it really helps to get them up, she refuses to have hair ball treats. We also tried this Royal Canin Intense Hairball 34: Great Deals on Royal Canin Dry Cat Food at zooplus but it didn't agree with her tummy but helped a lot with the hairballs, she had to come off it as it just wouldn't agree with her tummy.

She over grooms a lot, we took her on at 10 years old with quite a few issues (that we weren't told about! ) due to being bullied by other cats, shes settled a lot since being with us but the over grooming is uncontrollable and causes her to have excessive hairballs.

Pangur used to suffer really badly and he used to be really sick with them too. Our vet suggested Katalax and we haven't looked back! He rarely gets them anymore.

Originally Posted by Pangurs_Mum

Pangur used to suffer really badly and he used to be really sick with them too. Our vet suggested Katalax and we haven't looked back! He rarely gets them anymore.

The gimpet malt paste is just the same but £2.90 for 50g, works out soooo much cheaper

Oooh thanks for that, i'll be looking into it!