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grrrrrrrrrr! (warning: very high gross factor!)
got home after a loooong day today, and there was a small spot of cat puke on the floor. lovely! so i cleaned it up and looked around...jester always pukes twice...where's the other one?
i didn't find it.
a little while later, i went to sit on my bed. oh, here it is. in the exact middle of the bed. a big hairball with all kinds of other good stuff. it has soaked through the comforter cover, through the down comforter, and out the other side--a spot about 10 inches in diameter. great. i have to wash the comforter cover. fortunately it didn't soak all the way through to the sheets. last time this happened (3 times in a single week, about a year and a half ago), i had the down comforter professionally cleaned. this time i'm washing it in the washer...hopefully it will come out OK. wish me luck. and wish the cat luck if he pulls this again tomorrow!
but what can i do about the hairballs??? i have tried everything. i use a hairball-reducing dry food that came highly recommended by the mud bay granary staff. i give him half a can of wet food per day (also an all natural mud bay recommendation). i have been brushing him 2-4 times per week since mid-august. and still with the hairballs--he pukes a minimum of 3 times per week, and for awhile last summer it was literally every single day.
i didn't find it.
a little while later, i went to sit on my bed. oh, here it is. in the exact middle of the bed. a big hairball with all kinds of other good stuff. it has soaked through the comforter cover, through the down comforter, and out the other side--a spot about 10 inches in diameter. great. i have to wash the comforter cover. fortunately it didn't soak all the way through to the sheets. last time this happened (3 times in a single week, about a year and a half ago), i had the down comforter professionally cleaned. this time i'm washing it in the washer...hopefully it will come out OK. wish me luck. and wish the cat luck if he pulls this again tomorrow!
but what can i do about the hairballs??? i have tried everything. i use a hairball-reducing dry food that came highly recommended by the mud bay granary staff. i give him half a can of wet food per day (also an all natural mud bay recommendation). i have been brushing him 2-4 times per week since mid-august. and still with the hairballs--he pukes a minimum of 3 times per week, and for awhile last summer it was literally every single day.
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he doesn't *seem* to feel crappy. maybe he does, though. cats are cagey that way so it's hard to tell. he sleeps a lot--more than he ever used to. but other than that, the puking, and having trouble jumping up on stuff, he seems like his usual self.
p.s. washing the down comforter in the machine in my building didn't work. after the washer was done, i took the comforter out, and the stains were still there--plus some spots on the comforter were still dry! so...it's off to the landromat with me... fortunately we're having a free laundry special in my building this month, so i'm not out any quarters. not looking forward to trudging 5 blocks with a big wet thing in my arms...