I have a long haired Ragdoll cat and he yacks up a hairball or some form of vomit just about every three days or so. Id like to brush him, but he's one of these funny animals that runs at the sight of anything out of the norm. So he sees the brush and he dashes under the bed like greased lightning. Ive tried being slow and patient with him but he just won't have anything to do with the brush. Ive even tried different brushes, thinking maybe it was the shape or color that he didn't like.
I do feed him Iams' "mature cat with hairball formula" food, but since he yacks this often I don't imagine that it's doing any good.
I've read on a few places that I can use petroleum jelly to help the junk pass through his system and get digested, rather than coming out the front end, but again ... Houston, we have a problem. He's a MEGA picky eater. Won't eat a lot of the stuff that most cats love, like tuna and such, so the likelihood of him lapping up some medicated jelly stuff is pretty nill. I can totally see him sniffing it and then turning his nose up at it. He likes chicken and liver flavored stuff and that's about it. And those flavors sometimes won't even do, depending on the brand. Very, very picky.
I'm at a loss here. I'm getting tired of cleaning up his up-chuck on such a regular basis and I feel bad for him because it has to suck for him to go through that so often.
If anyone has some useful suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
- Dustin
I do feed him Iams' "mature cat with hairball formula" food, but since he yacks this often I don't imagine that it's doing any good.
I've read on a few places that I can use petroleum jelly to help the junk pass through his system and get digested, rather than coming out the front end, but again ... Houston, we have a problem. He's a MEGA picky eater. Won't eat a lot of the stuff that most cats love, like tuna and such, so the likelihood of him lapping up some medicated jelly stuff is pretty nill. I can totally see him sniffing it and then turning his nose up at it. He likes chicken and liver flavored stuff and that's about it. And those flavors sometimes won't even do, depending on the brand. Very, very picky.
I'm at a loss here. I'm getting tired of cleaning up his up-chuck on such a regular basis and I feel bad for him because it has to suck for him to go through that so often.
If anyone has some useful suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
- Dustin