How to Use Hairball Ointment on a Cat

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Dr. Adrienne Mulligan and I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com and I am here to talk about cat grooming. After you have brushed a cat or washed a cat or groomed a cat, it is going to create a lot of loose hair and besides that they are going to want to groom more because you have been messing with their hair. So it is probably a good time to pick to give them a little dose of hair ball ointment which is Laxatone and Laxatone is a petroleum based gel that will go all the way through and help the hair move through instead of something like olive oil that will get digested up higher. So this is something that will move on through the kitty and not get digested so it will go all the way through and do its job. So basically some cats love this stuff and you can actually feed it to them. This cat is not one of them. So you start doing it to him and he starts going I don't want to do that. So what I do is I usually sort of smear it around their face and after this he won't be very pretty for the camera but basically I usually put it on their face and sometimes they get use to it and they start licking it like that. Other people find that if they put it on their legs the cats will groom it off. Most of the cats I've seen clean it off and so I tend to just put it around their face and let them get a little nasty and all you have to get is about a teaspoon and give to them. This is a good time to do it after they have been groomed and bathed. "