Shedding

I've tried feeding my cats only wet food to help shedding, but because my schedule is so uneven I feel I'm doing more harm than good, since I have to actually be home to open wet food. So they're back to Nutro Complete Kitten food for now. But Alcott has started shedding SO much (How is it possible I can brush off more hair than I actually thought was ON the cat?) I've been mixing in Olive Oil since its supposed to help with shedding, but it doesn't seem to be. Is there any sort of supplement I can give that will help?

Shedding, does it mean hairing?

I know in Poland they have pasta especially for the hairing cats - so the bowels work better with the hairs so they dont need to vomit out hairballs. Besides, the pasta is tasty for most cats. Probably this pasta is also in US.

In Sweden we do have cat malt pasta (katzen malz) - same funktion - the bowels work better with hairs, so they newer be to hairballs. This cat malt pasta is surely also in USA, I would be MUCH surprised if it werent.

Extra vitamines B are also always good for the hairs. Feks in the yeast-cat-sweeties.

Hope you understand my half-bad english.

you may want to try fish oil with the olive... what wet were they eating??

Originally Posted by StefanZ

Shedding, does it mean hairing?

I know in Poland they have pasta especially for the hairing cats - so the bowels work better with the hairs so they dont need to vomit out hairballs. Besides, the pasta is tasty for most cats. Probably this pasta is also in US.

In Sweden we do have cat malt pasta (katzen malz) - same funktion - the bowels work better with hairs, so they newer be to hairballs. This cat malt pasta is surely also in USA, I would be MUCH surprised if it werent.

Extra vitamines B are also always good for the hairs. Feks in the yeast-cat-sweeties.

Hope you understand my half-bad english.

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Stefan I think you are talking about what we call "hair balls". That's not quite the same as shedding. Shedding is when the cat is losing a lot of it's hair (and I'm sure it also ends up with hair balls because of it).

If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, isn't it normal for it to shed heavily this time of year ? And again in Spring ?
My older cat does. Its just switching between winter and summer coat. The winter hair is fluffier and thicker, the summer hair is harder and thinner. Come October and April, we are hoovering every day.....

Originally Posted by madpiano

If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, isn't it normal for it to shed heavily this time of year ? And again in Spring ?
My older cat does. Its just switching between winter and summer coat. The winter hair is fluffier and thicker, the summer hair is harder and thinner. Come October and April, we are hoovering every day.....

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Oh I know...Miss Kitty was shedding so much this spring I just didn't know what to do. She's got very short hair, and there were huge masses of hair in every corner of my house. After two days it looked like I hadn't vaccumed in six months.

Next year I will be more prepared, and start brushing her A LOT as soon as I begin to notice the excess shedding. I would just brush and brush before and it wouldn't stop...like someone said above, I had no idea how so much hair could come from so little, LOL.

Ah, what we put up with for our furbabies...

MKD

Oh my gosh!
We got Tedy this last spring and for a few weeks he shed sooo terrible I did`nt know what to do with him! (He`d been an outdoor cat until we adopted him....so I assumed it was because he`d spent the winter out there and had an extra heavy coat for ptotection.)
I never dreamed I`d have to go through that again with him now being an inside cat!
(He has the kind of "bunny fur" type hair that you can`t just sweep up . A lint brish does nothing but flatten it down. You actually have to bursh it off the furniture with a stiff brush and then vacuum.)
Guess if he starts that again....I`ll have to get out the slip covers again!!!
Linda