I have a long haired cat, I brush her regularly but she throws fur balls daily. How can I help her?
Monday, August 30th, 2010 at
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Cat scratching is a perfectly normal behavior for a cat, and if your cat is scratching a chair or your favorite couch, then you just need to somehow re-direct his or her scratching to other, more appropriate objects.
The consensus from the various Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is that de-clawing is cruel and unnecessary. I can only agree with this conclusion. However, if you feel that you must either declaw your cat or give her up, we would rather see your cat stay in her home and be your lifelong companion. I only ask that you do not make this decision lightly and just be absolutely sure that you will not change your mind later about keeping your indoor cat once you have it declawed.
You can use nail caps for the cat's front paws as an alternative to getting the cat de-clawed. This is a much more humane choice and it does work to protect the furniture. Just make sure you do not use nail caps on a cat that goes outside, as it will have no defense.
Most pet shops offer different selections of cat scratch posts from which to choose. Some have carpet or rug material on wooden posts and bases. Others are made of rope which is wrapped around the post or pole.
Then there are cat towers and cat trees which are great for the cat to climb and play besides being there for scratching purposes.
Other people like to design their own and make them themselves. This is another option for you as well. Besides going to your local pet store, you can look online for these different cat trees, towers and scratch posts.
One thing that can work well if your cat is still scratching the furniture is to spray some citrus oil on the chair or the couch that they are attacking. This is a good deterrent that usually works quite effectively.
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Brushing her daily helps. Since you’re doing that already, then when you buy kibbles for her, try buying those for hair-ball treatment. It’ll help to lubricate the system and make it easier for them to pass it out rather than to cough out or worse, choke the intestines.
I have a male maine coon with the same problem. I switched him to Science diet hairball formula dry and wet food and he gets hairball treats daily. He hates to be brushed so it was myonly option. Also once a week he gets a vegetable based stool softener (vet recommended). With all these things he tosses a hairball maybe once a month now as opposed to 3-4x a week.
buy hairball treats or hair ball food
Don’t use a brush. Brushes are useless on longhaired cats – they do nothing to remove the dead hairs of the undercoat and can pull out or break the hairs of the topcoat. Get a good quality steel comb – like this http://greyhoundcomb.com/cart/bmz_cache/9/94cc5c3fe782c4c0058abd1d704f5941.image.484×550.jpg Comb your cat daily until you get no hairs coming out of the undercoat. Then don’t let your cat go more than two days without a combing.
What are you feeding your cat? Diet can play a big part in keeping your cat’s coat healthy and eliminate hairballs. My Persian, Percy eats Nature’s Variety raw diet, quality canned foods like Merricks and Tiki Cat and for dry he gets Innova Evo and Royal Canin for Persians which contains a hairball remedy. I’ve had him for about two years now and he’s NEVER had a hairball!
Try some food specially made for hairball control. Make sure if you switch the food do it gradually, to avoid any diarrhea. I use Iams and that helped my cat out a lot. Also, you can try getting something from the vet to help with that. I’m sure there are different types but most come in a tube, it’s like a paste, and help a lot.
They make special foods and treats that are hairball treatments. Those are probably the easiest options to take.
http://www.petco.com/Shop/SearchResults.aspx?Nav=1&N=0&Ntt=hairball+control are all sorts of options.
get her that paste that you put on their paws…rub some on her face…..she will stop with the hair balls..it helps her move the hair balls thru her digestive track giving her oils to speed it along…
I have two long-haired cats. The eat ONLY meat – no dry food. I never have to deal with hairballs.
Get Petromalt or another hairball remedy from the pet store. Even Vaseline placed on a paw to be licked off will work.