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Rank: Newbie
Joined: 1/24/2011
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Help!
My Burmilla - Sharrie is causing me concern due to constantly grooming herself and as a result she has horrible hairball problems.
I have her on Cat Lax which works a treat but as I can only give it to her once a week now she gets to a stage where she won't eat for a day, is miserable and is really out of sorts.
Any advise? I have a vets appointment for her and her brothers yearly injections soon but I just want her to stop grooming herself constantly which will stop the hairballs.
Annie
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Rank: Newbie  Joined: 11/17/2010 Posts: 1
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I have 2 british short hairs and one of them has problems with hairballs as well. We have recently changed their nibbles to the Whiskas furball control variety and that seems to have stopped Felix from throwing up the furballs.
It may be a coincidence but since they have been on those nibbles he hasn't vomited up the masses of fur. I have also taken to brushing them both with a "spiky" brush rather than just a soft brush - this has helped take out all of the excess thick winter fur so Felix isn't swallowing as much when he grooms himself. They both shred quite a bit all year round so the extra brushing is helping with that as well!
I don't know if there is a way to stop/control the self-grooming by a cat, the only thing I thought would help would be the extra brushing and using the furball control nibbles to help the fur pass through the system better rather than staying in the gut and then being vomited out. The nibbles have extra fibre in them which helps everything pass through the system better.
Be interested to hear if your vet has any other ideas.
Good luck
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Joined: 1/26/2011
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Cats are meant to throw up hairballs, from all that grooming they will always have lots of hair ingested. I give my cats
paraffin oil, just a teaspoon a day in their dish and they love licking it up when they feel they need it. Just buy it in the supermarket
in your medicines aisle.
Definitely daily brushing helps to remove all the dead hair, and you too get to enjoy the company of your cat.
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Rank: Member  Joined: 1/25/2011 Posts: 12
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All cats like to groom themselves & keep clean. You can't stop that - it's natural for them, being the clean animals they are. The cats with longer fur have more problems with furballs. The advice the others have given sounds good to me.
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Joined: 4/28/2011
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Hi,
I don't know if this would help but it cannot hurt to try. We have rabbits, and one of our rabbits is long haired, and has the same problem, as rabbits cannot regurgitate their food back up the only one way to get rid of there fur balls is through their poo. We give our rabbit Louie, 2 to 3 ml 0f pineapple juice through a syringe orally, as it passes the hair from their stomach through to their bowels, and bingo! it works, you might think its crazy but i don't see why it would not be worth the try, there is something in the pineapple juice that moves the hair from there gut , can't hurt to try your cat will think your crazy but hey! why not
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