Now that I have your attention, haha! ;)
I have a half ragdoll moggy, not only is her hair long there's also loads of it as it is very fine. Obviously malting a lot at this time of year and I brush her twice a day.
A few weeks back she had a poo ball hanging from her bum and on closer inspection it was being held in place by a string of matted up hair - so she's ingesting the hair when she cleans herself and it's passing through. I had seen this once before on her (had her 1.5 years), I cut through the hair string and presume she then poos the rest of the hair out.
I occasionally find hair balls with a bit of sick outside (natural cat behaviour) but this week she made awful crying sounds in the kitchen then proceeded to projectile vomit up a LOT of hair and some sick. Her whole body was convulsing and so much stuff came up.
Since then she has been happy and come to think of it in recent weeks she had been a bit droopy and not cuddly like usual so I think she wasn't feeling well with all the hair in her....
Anyway, thanks if you're still reading!
I give her Science plan dry biscuits that supposedly reduces furball formation (dubious) and this makes her poo drier anyway - maybe getting more tangled up with the fur inside her? And when I told the vet the other week about this clump or hair hanging out of her she said I could try wetting her biscuits to soften up her poo (my girl is a fussy princess and has just turned her nose up at soggy biscuits and refuses wet food, the only other thing she eats is tinned tuna which she gets about twice a week) The vet also suggested I include a small amount of laxative in her food everyday to loosen everthing up, not done this yet.
So -
Any tips for hairball control?
Does anyone give their fluffy moggy a laxative with good results?
Thank you!x