National Hairball Awareness Week GIVEAWAY!

No one needs to tell us that hairballs are a common problem for many cats. To help educate families on the causes and treatments of hairballs, Hill’s Pet Nutrition launched Hairball Battle, a fun new Facebook game, on April 29th, National Hairball Awareness Day. This fun game allows users to cough up hairballs on their friends! How awesome is that!? Dogs can play too... I know you guys are jealous of us and our hairball weapons.  ; )

Even better - they've also donated 15 bags of Hairball Control formula cat food to for me to give away to my readers!

I've made the giveaway easier (so I don't have to give all 15 bags to Bad Andy!!) The first 15 readers to mention the giveaway on Twitter or Facebook gets a bag o' food. Example: "@cokiethecat's giving away 15 free 7-lb bags of Science Diet Hair Ball Control Cat Food at www.cokiethecat.com! Pls RT!"


Leave a comment below where you mentioned the giveaway, and if I don't know you, include a twitter ID or email address so I can contact you! :o)

Science Diet's® special hairball formulas use natural vegetable fibers to help move hair safely and naturally through a cat's digestive system. They nourish our skin and coat with essential nutrients, reducing unnecessary shedding, without drugs or lubricants that may disturb normal digestion and absorption of nutrients. 

The Hairball Control cat food comes in Adult, Adult Light and Mature Adult formulas. It's also available in two canned varieties, and in the Science Diet® Indoor Cat products.

For more information on Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc., and their evidence-based clinical nutrition, visit HillsPet.com.

National Hairball Awareness Day & Anipal Photo Hunt!

Welcome to my blog, if you're coming here from People Pets! If it's your first time here, please sign my TV Guest Book below, opposite the Cokie Fur Pet pic.

Yes, it's that time of the year again, National Hairball Awareness Day! And I'm not talking about the way my Mom's hair looks right now. (She could really use a little FURminating, herself. I'm just sayin'.)

This year, People Pets is even featuring a gallery of fur creature photos - created from pets' FURminated hair - and one of my fur Cokie pics made the cut! Check it out, and see all 23 fur creatures here, including some submitted by my friends Romeo the Cat, The Island Cats, Jan's Funny Farm, Boris Kitty, Sea Bass Cat (Sebastian), Sparkle Cat, Your Daily Cute, Nikita Cat, Embrace Pet Insurance, and BZTAT.

I thought it would be fun to make this the Anipal Photo Hunt theme for this week, as well! So feel free to join in with your own Hairball Awareness post, and link up at the bottom of this post so we can hop over to your blog! (Click here for instructions, if you haven't joined the Anipal Photo Hunt Blog Hop before.)

Romeo the Cat's mom invited us to join in the fun, and Mom and Dad were happy to oblige. (Surprise.) They used my awesome FURminator shedding tool on me (which I love - and I even got a new one free just for participating) and in a minute combed off a good bunch o' fur to work with.

Dad started molding, pinching and pulling at it until he came into the bedroom where Mom was, holding his fur pet like an offering to the Gods, and Mom about died laughing. It looked just like me! Right  down to my Ragdoll cream flame point coloring. LOL!

Cokie Fur Pet

Then they had to photograph my fur doppleganger. They set up some pillows and took various angles and poses, but couldn't move him too much or he'd fall apart into the pile of whispy fur he was. It was like posing a dandelion.  ; )

Cokie Fur Pet with ball
My FURminator in the background

Drumroll  :::::::  People Pets!!

The little guy really bears a pretty good resemblance, don't you think?? 

The Real Cokie

We all know hairballs are serious business, though. If we're not careful, we ingest shedding fur when we groom ourselves. It gets all bound up inside and we either have to cough it up on your bed (not pleasant for us or for you), or it can get stuck and cause constipation, which can be very uncomfortable and even dangerous to our health.

My FURminator removes tremendous amounts of loose fur every time Mom and Dad comb me with it, and I LOVE it (unlike getting my toe nails cut), and it's cut back significantly on the amount of creamy white fur on the sofa.



This YouTube video demonstrates how the FURminator works- and how much cats hate it. NOT. ; ) 

Thank you, Romeo and Caroline, for including us. We're still laughing at some of the other fur pet pics!

Disclaimer: As much as I know this all sounds like an advertisement for FURminators, it's all 100% true. I LOVE mine, and my mom's given several to family members as gifts, and they all love them, too!

So happy Hairball Awareness Day! If this post prevents just one unnecessary hairball, I'll be able to nap easier.

Zzzzzzz...

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