Damn fur balls!!!

[iwantanafternoonnap]

I have a short haired tabby that keeps throwing up fur balls....mainly over my bed...yuk!

I have recently started using the fur ball paste but he has continued to throw up huge fur balls, twice in the last 3 days and before that its been roughly one a week.

Is there anything else I can do? He doesn't seem to be in any pain and is still eating normal. He's an oldish cat that I got through a friend and although he has had a check up from the vet I haven't got him insured due to expense.

xxx

[Fluffycloudland77]

Brush him every day, a quick run over with a furminator works wonders.

I virtually made ours bald in the summer. No shedding though and no fur balls.

[cozietoesie]

I groom mine daily and he doesn't appear to have had any fur balls for months if not years. (He's a house cat so I would know.) I get a heck of a lot of fur out.

[cozietoesie]

By the way, when I got him he was getting on a bit and had never been groomed. Some 6 years later, he now loves his groom - asks for it every evening in fact.

[iwantanafternoonnap]

Maybe I am not brushing him enough then but I never get much off him. I did when I first got it but now its hardly anything. Maybe he is chomping it all before I get to him

Thank you and I will do as advised. DS was most disgusted after he threw up on his playmat!

[cozietoesie]

It's worth a try - get it before it gets you and all that. I suspect that your brushing him is stimulating him to wash his own fur (to smooth things down etc) when you don't see him so I'd be doing it on a very regular basis if I were you.

I just use an ordinary comb brush (known as a styling brush on the net, I think) and haven't tried a Furminator (see fluffy's post above) but many posters use them and report well of them.

Let us know how you get on.

[ZebraOwl]

I get enough off mine with the Furminator that I could start a business spinning the stuff into wool & making it into quirky garments. That & the Petkin Hairball Lickstick mean we are essentially a hairball-free household - had a couple in the very hot weather when they were suddenly shedding more, but that's it...