Pounce Hairball Treatment: a Treat-Ment
Written: Jan 25 '02 (Updated Jan 25 '02)
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Pros: it works and the cats like the taste.
Cons: not good for kittens. expensive
The Bottom Line: It works. I don't have struggle to get them to eat it. Good stuff.
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| naphtalia's Full Review: Pounce Hairball Treat Ment |
As any cat owner knows, there is nothing more painful to watch than a cat coughing up a hairball. The cat's back will arch and he will begin to hack and rock back and forth until he gets rid of the hairball. I had a long-haired Calico kittie. She was especially subject to hairballs.
There are things you can do to help. First, keep your hair brushed to get rid of excess hair. I brushed all my kitties every day or two at most. I also used special "mitts" that help remove extra hair. Even when I did all this, however, hairballs sometimes happen. My kitties seemed especially subject to hairballs as spring arrived and they were shedding their winter coats.
Normal hairball treatment is messy. No matter what they tell you, kitties don't necessarily like the flavor of the malt flavored goo. Also, it's messy - perhaps not as messy as a hairball on the carpet, but it's nothing Martha Stewart would want around her house. In any case, while Caruso-girl and Winder would happily eat the usual hairball treatment, Molly who needed it most would balk at the stuff.
Pounce Hairball Treatment comes in two flavors. The original variety is a chicken flavor and is soft in texture. The tuna flavor is soft but with a bit of crunch. Both are relatively soft, though not squishy. Texture seems less important, however, as my kitties would gulp these so fast I'm sure they didn't chew at all. Between the two flavors, all the kitties will eat the treats. Though, they wouldn't be cats if one of them didn't turn up their nose at one flavor and one at another thus requiring a purchase of both flavors. (My kitties are pampered beasts who rule the house with an iron paw. They get what they want.)I tend to keep both on hand and offer a "combo platter" from my hand. The kitties will pick and choose for themselves. The treatments come in either a pouch or a cannister (Between 65-70 pieces in a cannister) Being from a multicat family, I always opted for larger containers of treats such as cannisters.
Now, while these are shaped like treats, they are really medicine. It's important to keep that in mind. To eliminate hairballs in adult cats, the dosage is 3-5 pieces a day until the hairball is eliminated. To prevent hairballs 3-5 pieces once or twice a week. These should be fed all at once between meal times without other foods. These should not be used for kittens under 8 weeks of age. For kittens over 8 weeks, 3-5 pieces once or twice a week. Like all medicines, keep these out of the reach of children and pets.
Unfortunately, these are no help for kitty breath which sometimes gets pretty foul. It doesn't make it much worse. Heinz does make a tartar control treat also which, if it doesn't leave kitties breath minty fresh, at least makes some improvements.
Happily, Pounce put hairball treatment into the center of a cat treat. Well, my fussy puss, Miss Molly, will eat the treats while she balks at the normal medicine. I just feed it to her like other cat treats and the gel in the center does the rest. The medicine in the treats works to grease up kittie's insides and let the hairball pass into the litter box instead of being tossed up on the carpeting.
Of course, I still had to clean the litter box. Now, if only Pounce would come up with a treat to get rid of that chore, too.
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