jca@drutx.UUCP (ArnsonJC) (03/10/86)
Instead of buying all those expensive, oil based, comcoctions for the cats, to prevent hairballs, a very inexpensive substitute can probably be found in your bathroom medicine cabinet. It's plain 'ole Vaseline. I've been using it for years and my cats know the sound of the metal lid coming off the jar and come running. The crazy cats even sit outside the bathroom door when I am taking a shower in order to get 'dibs' on some when I get out. Haven't had a problem with hairballs in years!!! Just in case your cats don't particullary like the taste, you can put a glop of some on their paw and they will lick it off to clean themselves. jill c. arnson ihnp4!drutx!jca AT&T ISL, Denver -- jill c. arnson ihnp4!drutx!jca AT&T IS, Denver (303)538-4800 "Excuse me,... My name's Enid Kapelsen, I'm from Boston. Tell me, do you fly a lot?"
zzz@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Mike Konopik) (03/15/86)
They eat Vaseline for hairballs? Isn't that not supposed to be ingested? We use margerine (butter works, too) and we don't have problems. One loves it and comes over to eat it, and the other gets a gob on the nose that she has to lick off. -- -Mike genrad!mit-eddie!zzz (UUCP) ZZZ%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC (ARPA)
lauran@reed.UUCP (Laura Nepveu) (03/18/86)
>Just in case your cats don't particullary like the taste, >you can put a glop of some on their paw and they >will lick it off to clean themselves. > >jill c. arnson I've tried this trick and had to clean the dried catlax off her paw the next day. She HATES the stuff, but has chronic constipation. I put some on my finger and rub it on the roof of her mouth. She eats it, but glares at me for hours afterward. sigh. Does anyone know of a food or diet additive that would preform the same function as catlax type products? Laura Nepveu