Why Has My Cat Got Hair Balls, and is Vomiting Them Up a Problem?
Cats get hair balls naturally.
And when they need to expel them, this is normally through the process of vomiting them back up.
Sometimes vomiting hair balls can be a problem, sometimes not.
How do you distinguish? For a normal cat, with average length fur, periodic vomiting hair balls is a perfectly natural process.
The times when this becomes more obvious is at the seasonal changes of the year, when they are shedding their summer or winter coat in preparation for the new, more appropriate coat.
However, there can be times when this is not quite a natural process.
Cats with a long coat need help with their grooming.
Long coats have been bred into cats.
They are not normal for them.
So regular grooming on your part is essential.
This takes the edge off the huge fur ingestion, when grooming.
When cats with regular length fur constantly groom themselves, it is showing they may have either a skin irritation or a parasite problem.
This constant grooming can mean a higher than normal ingestion of fur.
Many people opt to deal with this problem by using immune suppressing drugs such as cortisone for the skin irritation, or the toxic, nerve gas based, popular pet pesticides.
Neither of these offer you a solution to the cause of the problem.
They are merely masking the effects of the cause, and in a highly toxic and health damaging way.
Can you do anything better? It's always worth searching for the cause of any condition, before reaching for the treatment.
If you know the cause and can remedy that, this makes a far healthier and long term solution.
Skin irritations often arise from a high toxic load.
When you discover what goes into most commercial cat foods, you'll realise that you may be the cause of the problem, by your choice of cat food.
When people take over control of what their cats eat, and feed them quality raw meat and bones, they find that health problems disappear, including skin irritations.
The poor nutritional quality that passes for cat food in practically all commercial cat food makes your cat too alkaline.
This allows for the proliferation of parasites, both internally and externally.
Isn't it better, for both you and your cat, to feed a quality food which will not predispose her to get parasites? Isn't this preferable to feeding a low quality food, one which causes the problem, then using a highly toxic and harmful pesticide to control the effects?
And when they need to expel them, this is normally through the process of vomiting them back up.
Sometimes vomiting hair balls can be a problem, sometimes not.
How do you distinguish? For a normal cat, with average length fur, periodic vomiting hair balls is a perfectly natural process.
The times when this becomes more obvious is at the seasonal changes of the year, when they are shedding their summer or winter coat in preparation for the new, more appropriate coat.
However, there can be times when this is not quite a natural process.
Cats with a long coat need help with their grooming.
Long coats have been bred into cats.
They are not normal for them.
So regular grooming on your part is essential.
This takes the edge off the huge fur ingestion, when grooming.
When cats with regular length fur constantly groom themselves, it is showing they may have either a skin irritation or a parasite problem.
This constant grooming can mean a higher than normal ingestion of fur.
Many people opt to deal with this problem by using immune suppressing drugs such as cortisone for the skin irritation, or the toxic, nerve gas based, popular pet pesticides.
Neither of these offer you a solution to the cause of the problem.
They are merely masking the effects of the cause, and in a highly toxic and health damaging way.
Can you do anything better? It's always worth searching for the cause of any condition, before reaching for the treatment.
If you know the cause and can remedy that, this makes a far healthier and long term solution.
Skin irritations often arise from a high toxic load.
When you discover what goes into most commercial cat foods, you'll realise that you may be the cause of the problem, by your choice of cat food.
When people take over control of what their cats eat, and feed them quality raw meat and bones, they find that health problems disappear, including skin irritations.
The poor nutritional quality that passes for cat food in practically all commercial cat food makes your cat too alkaline.
This allows for the proliferation of parasites, both internally and externally.
Isn't it better, for both you and your cat, to feed a quality food which will not predispose her to get parasites? Isn't this preferable to feeding a low quality food, one which causes the problem, then using a highly toxic and harmful pesticide to control the effects?
