National Hairball Awareness Day!

                                         

No, it's not quite here yet, but circle your calendars for Friday April 27, when all heck will break loose, as we join with lots of our friends to call attention to this special day. We've all heard about cats retching up hairballs, but we'll learn how to prevent those nasty packages from even forming, and the day will be packed with hairball-related festivities-so please stay tuned!

In the meantime, we thought we'd show you the gallery of "hairball creatures" that some of us created from  fur that we groomed from our cats - using our FURminator grooming tools. Needless to say, our friends at FURminator are sponsoring this special day (regularly grooming your feline with one of their outstanding tools should help prevent the formation of hairballs), and we were honored to be asked to take part. This year, our task was to use the fur from our groomed kitties to create a "celebrity". Now, don't tell Parental Unit that I'm saying this, but she's the least artistic or "crafty" person around, and she was none too pleased with how her "Fur-Lebrity" turned out...so please try not to make fun of her's! Instead, visit the gallery of the top five Fur-Lebrity creatures and vote for your favorite-the winner will receive a donation to their favorite animal charity, courtesy of FURminator.

Just click on the button below to visit all of the blogs that participated. Have fun!
   

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It's National Hairball Awareness Day!

  

What an exciting day for us here at Bocci's Beefs! We're thrilled to be one of many cat lovers to participate in National Hairball Awareness Day, along with  its sponsors, FURminator, and Caroline Golon, one of the founders of BlogPaws and author of that fabulous blog, Romeo the Cat.




Why do we need a special day to raise awareness of hairballs you ask? Well, here at Bocci's Beefs, we're all about providing information to our readers about important issues involving your pets, and we know that "awareness" of an issue or potential problem is always the first step to solving that problem. It turns out that when cats self-groom, they often swallow most of that excess hair, which can compact in  kitty's stomach, forming a hairball and causing your beloved feline to regurgitate as a means to force out that hairy mass. Even more problematic is that the hairball can potentially block the passage of food in the stomach or become impacted, requiring surgical removal-yuk!

So how do we cat owners prevent this nastiness? We give our cats a little help with their grooming by frequent brushing and what we call "FURminating"-using one of FURminator's many grooming tools to remove copious amounts of kitty's excess hair. You might recall that we did a review of the FURminator for dogs, which we loved! Refresh your memory here if you so desire: boccibeefs.blogspot.com/2010/06/its-furminator-review-and-give-way.html.  


It just so happens that FURminator has recently introduced a line of its grooming products specifically for cats, and as part of our participation in this special day, we received one of these new tools as a gift. Our FURminator Deshedding Tool is a size small, with a blade designed specifically for short-haired cats like our kitty, Bella. And get this: we were also asked to make a "creature" of the excess hair we removed from our cat for inclusion on FURminator's Facebook page and... on People Magazine's pet page! Just click on these links to view all of the fantastic hairball creatures! And read People Magazine
story about this special day right here: www.peoplepets.com/news/cats/happy-national-hairball-awareness-day/1.

Here's the hairball creature we created, "Sal the Squirrel". Can you tell that Parental Unit IS NOT "crafty"?

Although we won't do a full review of this new FURminator cat deshedding tool today, suffice it to say that we think it works miracles, just like FURminator's other deshedding products.

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