Ashton: Did you know that today is Hairball Awareness Day? With it being springtime and cats shedding their winter coats, some of your humans may have become aware of hairballs by stepping on them recently.
So today I wanted to show you how I keep from leaving hairballs around for my humans to step on. I get groomed! It’s not that I don’t do a good job grooming myself. But this time of year, it’s easy to swallow a lot of hair while you’re going about your daily beauty routines, and that can lead to an upset stomach or even require a trip to the vet if you can’t bring the hairball back up.
The main thing about being groomed is to find a brush or other grooming tool that works for you. I like being groomed with the Furminator. It feels good, and it helps to pull out a lot of my undercoat. You can see some of the hair it has pulled out collecting next to me in this photo.
The same kind of grooming tools don’t work for every cat. Pierre has a thinner coat, and the Furminator irritates his sensitive skin. He does better with a brush that has little plastic balls at the end of each tine to protect his skin. The important thing is that your humans find a brush that works for you, and that they use it to get the extra hair off of you so you don’t have to do it yourself.
It’s also important to inspect your human’s work, because you never know whether it will be good enough or not. Good help is so hard to find.
So check it out, this is the hair that came off of me during today’s grooming session.
Do you think I can make it into a cat shape and scare Pierre and Newton with it?
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