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Grex > Pets > #37: Time for *some* discussion about *something*. | |
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carla
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Time for *some* discussion about *something*.
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Apr 21 07:52 UTC 2000 |
There's never any discussion in here. It's time for furball updates. good,
bad sad, ugly, tell us what your furpeople are up to, or upchucking, I guess.
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scott
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response 1 of 42:
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Apr 21 11:18 UTC 2000 |
It's been a little while since any serious hairball barfing. I guess that
means it's time to start forcing the hairball grease on Dave. Conan rarely
has a problem, though.
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carla
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response 2 of 42:
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Apr 21 17:44 UTC 2000 |
the hairball treats are so much nicer if you can get your cat to eat them.
The malted petroleum makes *me* want to barf.
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scott
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response 3 of 42:
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Apr 21 19:12 UTC 2000 |
Alas, Dave has to be cornered in the bathroom and the goo stuffed into his
mouth. Conan likes it, but doesn't need it. :(
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carla
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response 4 of 42:
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Apr 21 22:04 UTC 2000 |
that's the way it always is. Do they like to be brushed? If Tragedy sees
the brush out she will stand there and stare at you like Eddie from Frasier
until you brush her.....and she won't let you stop. I have a zoom groom. She
loves it. If I get out the slicker brush she will hide under the futon at
first sight of it.
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mooncat
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response 5 of 42:
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Apr 25 13:22 UTC 2000 |
Sasha, the brat, hates being brushed... Even bought a special comb for
long haired cats... Now what's this about a 'treat' that's helpful for
hairballs? It's molting season... and I'm getting sick of hairballs...
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carla
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response 6 of 42:
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Apr 25 16:48 UTC 2000 |
look in the cat treats section at Meijer Anne.....they have treats with
hairball meds right in them....food too if it's a chronic problem. Mine
<short haired anyhow> gets them so infrequently I just use the malted
petroleum when she starts hackin'. But if you are getting sick of them, the
treats are a pretty safe bet, jules uses them with no problems. I hate
hairballs.
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mooncat
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response 7 of 42:
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Apr 25 17:45 UTC 2000 |
<nods> Will definitely have to look into it. Being that she's a long-
hair it's more of a problem than with a short hair. It's not like a
weekly thing, but often enough to be annoying.
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carla
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response 8 of 42:
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Apr 26 18:27 UTC 2000 |
in the middle of the night is the worst cause you don't want to get out of
bed and then you forget and step on it in the morning on your way to the
bathroom. Beh.
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mooncat
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response 9 of 42:
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Apr 26 22:24 UTC 2000 |
<nods> Ahyup
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carla
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response 10 of 42:
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Apr 27 01:19 UTC 2000 |
but you can't even get mad beause you know what it's like to have to throw
up, and they always look so sad and pathetic after. :(
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gypsi
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response 11 of 42:
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Apr 27 09:56 UTC 2000 |
I know. =( Gomez looks ashamed and tries to hide. Poor thing thinks I'll
get mad at him.
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carla
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response 12 of 42:
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Apr 27 17:20 UTC 2000 |
it breaks my heart sometimes.
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otter
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response 13 of 42:
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Apr 30 22:55 UTC 2000 |
Pounce makes _Hairball TREATment_ treats. Both of our monsters love 'em, and
they work.
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tomaso
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response 14 of 42:
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Mar 24 20:38 UTC 2001 |
My Maine Coon cat used to have bad hairball problems. I started giving him
a "treat" of that catfood that comes in the tiny cans each night before
bedtime. He still has occasional hairballs, but seems much less trouble
gacking them up. I still occasionlly wake up from a dead sleep hearing that
"huk! Huk!" sound and have to get up to get him off the bed or the desk, but
not nearly as bad as before.
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slynne
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response 15 of 42:
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Mar 25 21:03 UTC 2001 |
My cat hardly ever has hairballs. I guess that is a good thing.
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mooncat
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response 16 of 42:
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Mar 26 16:22 UTC 2001 |
Sasha has them occassionally (being mostly Maine Coon she's got the
long hair) but I have this malt-paste stuff that I put on her paw (she
licks off, no hairball problems). It's supposed to be a treat that
cats will love... but no, Sasha won't take it as a treat so I have to
put it on her paw. Luckily Sasha never horked them up on furniture...
just carpeting.
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slynne
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response 17 of 42:
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Mar 26 17:16 UTC 2001 |
I tried putting that malt-paste stuff on my cat's paw. She flung it off
her paw onto the wall.
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mooncat
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response 18 of 42:
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Mar 26 18:49 UTC 2001 |
Heh, cute. This stuff is too thick for her to fling off, it has to be
licked off.
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ashke
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response 19 of 42:
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Mar 26 18:54 UTC 2001 |
Precious licked it off, but hated it...however tanis flung and walked around
the house so I was picking it up off the carpet, walls, and anything he came
near. He'd lick it up, and then fling the bulb, and then fling it again...
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mooncat
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response 20 of 42:
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Mar 26 19:50 UTC 2001 |
Well luckily they're shorthairs and it's not as big of a concern as it
is with Sasha. What kind of stuff did you try?
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ashke
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response 21 of 42:
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Mar 27 21:16 UTC 2001 |
Funny enough, Precious is the only one who got hairballs, making it her task
to clean tanis. I'm not sure what it was, having not found the bottle since
I moved, but it was a "malt" ribbon in a pink and white container.
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mooncat
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response 22 of 42:
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Apr 3 18:07 UTC 2001 |
Hmm, I have the 'Four Paws' stuff, I think... it is in a tube and has
malt flavoring, I think.
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carla
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response 23 of 42:
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Apr 13 14:23 UTC 2001 |
You have to sort of rub it in to the fur on the top of their front paws
that works a lot better than just squeezing a glob out on them which they
immediately fling against the wall. It took me a lot of trial and
error to come up with this solution. Heh. "There's got to be something
more to the instructions than just squeezing this stuff out like it reads!"
she says exasperatedly after having to clean up multiple balls of malted
petroleum up off the walls for a time.
Haven't had hairballs in a while, but there's honestly nothing quite like
waking up in the middle of the night to a vomiting/hacking noise coming
from your cat. You usually forget until morning when you step directly
into it. Yuck.
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slynne
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response 24 of 42:
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Apr 13 14:40 UTC 2001 |
I know what is more gross than that. I never step into hair balls
anymore because my dogs eat them up. YUCK!!! If I hear the cat yacking,
I try to get to it before the dogs do.
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