Thread: Hairballs

Sidney came back from the cattery at the start of August in the middle of a massive moult - up till then the house had been hair-free for a year. He took against being groomed early on and seemed to keep himself in good condition so we let him deal with it.

However, he is now like a car driving through the desert - everywhere he goes he is followed by a plume of fluff that drifts off him with every step. He is now getting scruffed and brushed, I have tried a slicker brush and the damp tissue paper but two weeks later it is still coming out in handfulls and he is hairballing everywhere. He even managed to clog up the Dyson with white fluff!

I found what I thought was a rather large dead mouse on the hall carpet last week. We have MC-proofed the back garden so I assumed Sidney had finally managed to catch something other than a butterfly! When I picked it up I realised it was a hairball. At least 3 inches long and about an inch wide. Grim.

So, I think bald is probably better right now and I am going to try a furminator. I just got out of the shower, he brushed up against my damp shin and now I look like a werewolf. Enough. Worst case scenario: he can wear the woolly jumper that I knitted him for winter walkies.