"Ma, I have a very uncomfortable stomach these days, am I sick"
"Don't make a fuss, as far as your physique is concerned, like a calf, what kind of illness can you get?"
"Ma, don't you love me anymore, I said you don't care about me when you're sick"
"Ah, love you, of course love you, you all say what symptoms you have, do you want to see a doctor for an injection or something"
"Oh, the injection is counted, I am always vomiting recently, eat it and spit it out, numb, I should not be pregnant."
"What's pregnant, you're a male cat!"
"Actually, I suspect I have hairballs~"
1. What is hairballism?
Cats are very clean-loving creatures, and they spend part of their time combing their hair with their tongues to clean themselves up. Cats have many barbs on their tongues, and in the process of licking themselves, they will swallow the cleaned hairs and dirty things into their stomachs. However, cats do not have the ability to digest these hairs, and in the long run, they will block the stomach and intestines, causing hairball disease.
Second, what kind of performance does a cat with hairball disease have?
Poor spirits, lifeless, no appetite, rough hair and no luster; in severe cases, the hairball will block the gastrointestinal tract and cause obstruction, and soon there will be dehydration, and the symptoms of kidney failure in the internal organs will occur, and surgery will be done to remove the hairball. Otherwise, the small life will be gone.
Secondly, the parents of shorthair cats should not think that hairball disease has nothing to do with their own home, shorthair cats will not have this problem, as long as they love to be clean and like to lick their own cats, more or less will be plagued by hairball disease. It's just that short-haired cats have a much lower chance of developing hairballs compared to long-haired cats.
3. How to protect your cat from hairballism?
Some people will choose cat grass, wheat seedlings, barley seedlings, oat seedlings, dog tail grass or just ordinary grass on the outside lawn, as long as the cat likes, it is called cat grass. There are so many kinds of cat grass, try one by one, you can find a cat owner like and suitable, too time-consuming.
In addition, some shovelers choose to be hair cream, in the final analysis is the fecal decomposition agent, through the oil lubrication of the blocked hair balls follow the stool discharge, the correct is that the hair cream should be called intestinal lubricant, the market hair cream is as low as ten or twenty yuan to a hundred yuan, the choice also needs to pay more attention.
Another group of parents are feeding cat grass flakes, the principle of cat grass flakes is to use plant fibers to promote intestinal peristalsis, and recently my cat was eating Baika's cat grass flakes. Because it is the entrance of the thing, it is quite carefully studied.
The main ingredients in his family are (1) psyllium shell, which is a fiber-rich plant that can be partially decomposed in the colon and beneficial to probiotics in the intestine; it can swell after encountering water, so it can increase satiety. In addition, the psyllium shell has the function of properly softening the feces, which allows the cats to smoothly discharge the hairballs. It can be said that the psyllium shell is a healthy, green and environmentally friendly plant! (2) Red elm bark extract: has the effect of stomach digestion, diuresis and swelling, and relieves gastrointestinal discomfort. The remaining ingredients chicory root powder and barley seedling powder are also some of the ingredients that regulate the intestines.
In this season of moulting, quickly prepare a bottle, carefully care for the cat's stomach, so that the cute kitten will not feel uncomfortable in the season of spitting balls.