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Cats Hairballs

When we lived in North Pole, Alaska, my wife and I had a log home with wood floors. With three cats, we would periodically find a hair ball. Having wood floors, it was relatively easy to clean up a hair ball. But when we moved to Reno, Nevada, our new home had carpets, which made cleaning up of hairballs more of a problem. For example, they would stain the rugs and my wife would have to clean it up.

Hairballs are relatively a modern day creation when man started breeding dissimilar kinds of cats. Cats can process the hair they take in. But as modern man starting breeding cat with longer hair, it became gruelling for cats to process the hair naturally. It then started collecting in their stomachs and they had to emit it as a hairball .

There are several things you can do to minimize your cat from getting hairballs. You can feed you cat a high fiber diet which can be found on the market. However, one of my cats needs a special diet, so feeding them a high fiber diet is out of the question.

Some people even resort to shaving their cats to prevent cats hairballs. That will help, but I did not want to trim my cats, in particular the Maine Coone. So what I did was to find a real good brush. I tired several different kinds, but most did not work very well.

I at long last found a metal brush with metal tines that removes the most hair than any other brush I had used. Another good thing, our Maine Coone comes running to be combed when she sees my wife going for the brush.