Stubborn Hairballs

My cat was hacking for months and nothing coming up or out! They did an ultrasound and said no hairball in the intestinal tract! Three days later, he coughed up a very large hairball!!! My conclusion, they could not see it on the ultrasound! Now I am going thru the same thing again...coughing and hairball ball meds not working.. tried copius amounts of pumpkin etc.. no luck!!

For the first this Ritz had a hairball problem.  On the advice of members, I tried egg yolk lechitin and it helped.  I sprinkled it on Ritz (raw) food and she licked it right up.  Here is a thread discussing EYL.  (Computer problems, can't link)

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/250653/egg-lecithin-for-hairballs

It comes in a capsule and you can sprinkle it in wet food, tastes pretty good (well to a cat).

You could also try giving your cat a raw egg and see if that helps.

My long hair cat gets hairballs no matter how many times I brush her. She's been to the vet and is perfectly healthy. I give her EYL every other night mixed in her wet food and she hasn't had a hairball since (I started the EYL about a month ago).

You can either feed egg yolks themselves 2 or 3 times a week, or use the egg yolk lecithin capsules. For REALLY bad hairballs, you might want to consider one egg yolk weekly AND the egg yolk lecithin. That's what I do. My worst hairball offenders need a full capsule of EYL twice a day, actually.