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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:	Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:	FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:	MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO

Created:	Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5089
Total number of notes:	60366

3464.0. "Non-goopy hairball rememdy?" by MEMIT::MISSELHORN () Wed Mar 28 1990 14:05

    Does anyone know if there is a hairball remedy that isn't 
    gooey?  
    
    My gang rarely gets hairballs (I've yet to seen one, yet once
    in a while they get that hairball cough) but yesterday morning
    Brittany was coughing.  Since they are all shedding to beat the
    band and they wash, not only themselves but each other, I figured
    that some remedy was in order.
    
    They each ate a little because they don't mind the flavor, but
    if it gets too gooey (like carmel when you pull it and it gets
    one of those long stringy things), they hate it! 
    
    Today Brittany would have no part of it, Melody tried it but
    it was too gooey and Missy ate a very little bit and then gave
    up.
    
    Currently I am using Laxatone but wondered if any of the others
    on the market were less goopy.  So, before I went and spent a
    fortune experimenting, I thought I'd check it out with you all.
    
    Barbara

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3464.1	Rub it into their fur....	ASABET::MCDONOUGH		`Wed Mar 28 1990 14:23`	9
	I've found that the easiest way to get my kids to take their hairball medicine is to rub it into the fur on their front legs. They give me "death-wish" looks when I do it, and they shake those front feet indignantly, but then they clean it off as any clean kitty will do. One word of caution though...make sure it's rubbed into the fur fairly evenly and deeply, or you'll be cleaning it off the walls after the shaking of the paws.... JM
3464.2	A method to this....	BOOVX1::MANDILE		`Wed Mar 28 1990 14:59`	11
	I also use the Laxatone, and two of my "kids" will fight you for it. The other two run when they see it coming! Its the "goopy" that lubes the inside to slide out the hairballs, so I don't know what you can do about a less goopy type. The trick I use to giving it to the two who do not care for it... I squeeze out a ribbon onto my finger, and wipe this into/on the side of the cat's mouth, smearing it well,onto their lips, per se, so that they cannot shake it off. They aren't thrilled, but they lick it off promptly. L-
3464.3	furballs	SMEGIT::ROSSI		`Wed Mar 28 1990 16:32`	5
	Temperature might have a lot to do with it being so goopy. maybe if you refregirated it a little it would firm it up. I use Lax Aire from my vet. Its not real gloppy and Maxine loves it. Valerie
3464.4	cold PETROMALT, please...	FORTSC::WILDE	Ask yourself..am I a happy cow?	`Fri Mar 30 1990 16:59`	7
	If you can find it....try PETROMALT brand. I also keep it cold. The team tolerates it better that way - but all have decided it's just not what they had in mind....even though Nicholas used to eat it from my finger without prompting. Now, I have to force feed it by prying open the mouth, rubbing a chunk off on the tongue and then closing their mouth on it until it begins to melt. They then glare at me and act like I've given them a huge chunk of peanut butter - but it gets down.
3464.5	try, try, try	WILKIE::IVES		`Mon Apr 02 1990 13:10`	9
	Mocha would eat the whole tube of Femalt is I would let him. Eats it right off your finger. When we first got Ming we did everything we could think of to get her to take it, ALL made it a very unpleasant experience. I called her breeder and she said, "Spread it on the edge of her feeding dish." Sure enough it worked. (Of course I had to put Mocha outside as he smelled hers and it was like, "Mine, mine. Barbara