A couple of weeks ago, Otto threw up his food a few times and I knew he was
working on a hairball.  Last week, when I stumbled into the kitchen one
morning I stepped in a fresh pile of hairball on the mat in front of the
sink.  Later, I noticed another one in the cat carrier that's by the fridge.
Great, I figured the pukey food wouldn't be a problem for awhile now that
Otto had coughed up the hair.  Then a couple days later I found one on my
desk chair.  Fortunately, it was all hair, no food.  Then, there was one on
the couch.  Another on the floor under the living room window.  Then another
one on the mat in the kitchen, and yet one more in the cat carrier.  All of
them were hair only, no food.  I have never seen so many hairballs in such a
short period of time, just over a week.  I'm sure that it wasn't just Otto;
Tiger had to be contributing (I suspect the cat carrier and couch were
hers).  Is this really unusual?  Besides the hairballs (which were all puked
up when I was either asleep or at work), they've been eating well, using the
litterboxes normally, are active and happy as always.

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Liz