A Michael Broad Blog
Introduction I hope you find this page useful. It has been updated. One of the difficulties for a good cat caregiver is to know whether there cat is genuinely ill if and when they vomit. Domestic cats are good at vomiting. But sometimes it’s just a day-to-day matter; something not to concern a good …
An infographic on an often-discussed cat caregiving topic. All the information contained therein is from veterinary sources primarily Dr Bruce Fogle DVM and Drs Eldredge DVM, Carlson DVM, Carlson DVM and Giffin MD. I hope you find it useful. I have focused on some essential tips. Below are some more articles on hairballs:
The stomach of cats is designed to accept hair. It has to be as a lot of hair is ingested during grooming. Sometimes too much for longhaired cats. Medical – mainly a longhaired cat problem Longhaired cats accumulate hair in the stomach as hairballs. They can be regurgitated rather than passing through the digestive …
The final straw was when a hairball was vomited up on the woman’s bed at which point she locked her cat outside permanently.
This is the extraordinary story of how a 2 inch cat hairball developed in a cat owner’s vagina. I know the title is a little bit disturbing. It is not meant to be click bait. I’ll try and keep this as dry and as factual as possible to take some of the heat out …
By Madison I was remiss in not brushing my short hair cat. He never had hairballs and for ten years he was fine. I regularly brush his brother, a long haired cat prone to hairballs, and was perplexed when Toby, the short hair, stopped eating and the X-rays showed a mass stuck in duodenum. …
Intro by Michael: this is an article by Jude, a visitor to this site. Thanks Jude, much appreciated. Hairballs are natural for a cat. The issue that humans have is that we want to avoid hairballs being vomited. Cats vomiting hairballs is also normal but humans would rather prevent it. So when we use …
Here is a picture of vomited grass and a classic looking feline hairball nearby, which proves that eating grass makes a cat sick up the hairball, which in turn indicates that cats eat grass to get rid of hairballs.
