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 sporadically 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 different kinds of cats. Cats can process the hair they take in. But as modern man starting breeding cat with longer hair, it became grueling for cats to process the hair naturally. They would then start collecting in their stomachs, and they would have to emit them as a hairball .

There are several things you can do to minimise 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.

Indiviguals even resort to removing their cats hair prevent cats hairballs. That will help, but I did not want to shave my cats, especially 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 ultimately found a metal brush with metal tines that removes the most hair than any other brush I had used. The other good thing, our Maine Coone comes running to be brushed when she sees the brush .