Hairball remedy without fish or sodium benzoate?

I used to use the old gold-colored Nutri-Vet chicken hairball stuff, but you can't find it anymore. Additionally, it seems sodium benzoate is a no-no for cats.

Does anyone know of a hairball remedy/helper that contains no fish(cat and fish don't get along) or benzoate? I am having a hard time finding one that fits that bill, and my little guy has started to make the occasional "gack" noise once in a while.

I would suggest buying sprouted wheat grass for your cat, usually they eat it and after a while vomit it out together with the hairballs.Also wheat grass has other additional positive features healthwise. You can buy the wheatgrass in tray's from juicebars or a nursery/plantshop but if you buy them here ask if they are organic and not sprayed with nasty stuff. If you buy it in a tray i would suggest you part it in batches with a knife and put it with soil in a bowl so actually you plant it, give it a bit of water everyday and it needs sunlight too if you have a garden or balcony it's better to put it outside not if it's winter ofcourse. You can keep it for a few months actually depending on how much your cat eats from it .I always buy it on trays part it in 6 patches and plant them on my balcony it keeps well and regrows for like 5 month's, and my 2 cats just love it.It's inexpensive and vey healthy and it does the job apart from that it's also decorative.Girl go buy and try!!

Egg yolk lecithin or make your own.

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lucia123 said:

 
I would suggest buying sprouted wheat grass for your cat, usually they eat it and after a while vomit it out together with the hairballs.Also wheat grass has other additional positive features healthwise. You can buy the wheatgrass in tray's from juicebars or a nursery/plantshop but if you buy them here ask if they are organic and not sprayed with nasty stuff. If you buy it in a tray i would suggest you part it in batches with a knife and put it with soil in a bowl so actually you plant it, give it a bit of water everyday and it needs sunlight too if you have a garden or balcony it's better to put it outside not if it's winter ofcourse. You can keep it for a few months actually depending on how much your cat eats from it .I always buy it on trays part it in 6 patches and plant them on my balcony it keeps well and regrows for like 5 month's, and my 2 cats just love it.It's inexpensive and vey healthy and it does the job apart from that it's also decorative.Girl go buy and try!!

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Cats don't really benefit from wheat grass. They like it, and it's bit of good fiber for them, but it's not necessarily healthy or nutritious for them. I give it to my crew as a treat, but they don't benefit from it otherwise. It should not make your cats vomit (although sometimes that can happen), and ultimately it doesn't treat hairballs beyond adding a small amount of fiber. 

Let's agree to disagree on that one, i probably have quite a few years of real life experience with cats ahead of you .I always notice if they have trouble vomiting a hairball they start eating plants especially grasslike plants, their digestive system is shorter than ours so they do not profit as much as we do from herbs but that being said it's also not the case that they do not profit from fresh herbs completely. I'll give you a few examples i had a cat who had a bit of a liver problem i wasn't aware of  but he was always nibblling at my roses and i suspect that in that way he kept it under control, till my roses all died because of extreme bad weather, only than he became ill.Another cat of mine was always stealing tabacco from my visitors and than hiding it in his special hiding place and i found out that he was chewing it. I could not fathom that he liked it because it has a very sharp . penetrating taste but then one day, i read that the nicotine in tabacco mind you not the other rubbish they put in it ,actually has medical uses in that it kills off quite some microbes.He might have used it for that reason.It's true that cat's do not always vomit the wheatgrass but that usually depends on the amount they eat .If they eat a little it usually does not happen if they eat some more it works as a pro-vomit substance,Do not underestimate the wisdom of your animals they know exactly what their body needs unlike humans. I have been fortunate and priveleged to have met a few very exceptional cats including one who healed people he was really a remarkable shaman .I used to do handson healing on family and friends cause i was born with it and i soon learned with this cat that he was a very gifted healer.I must say i learned a lot from him.