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Hairball Awareness Day 2014

This Friday, April 25, 2014 is Hairball Awareness Day. Most of us think of hairballs left for us by our pet cats as an annoyance, found typically between the bedroom and the bathroom. Their peak occurrence is somewhere around 3am and appear only when you have bare feet. As annoying as hairballs are to us,

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Hairballs Can be Dangerous!

An x-ray of a hairball

Friday, April 29th is National Hairball Awareness Day and I have the poster patient for this disorder. Sunshine looks just like her name, a sunburst of calico color on one very charming cat. So how did she get to be the poster patient for National Hairball Awareness Day? A hairball nearly killed her. Sunshine has

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