Cat Health

AvoDerm Natural Chicken, Lamb & Herring Meal Formula Hairball Kitten & Adult Cat Food is one of the best ways you can make sure you’re giving your beloved cat(s) all the safe nutrients they need. 

Product Description:

AvoDerm Natural is pressure cooked to ensure your cat receives optimum nutrition from the highest quality ingredients. AvoDerm Natural is naturally formulated to be complete and balanced with added vitamins and minerals, and other essential ingredients for your cat.

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Chicken Meal, Ground Whole Corn, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbic Acid), Tomato Pomace, Oatmeal, Herring Meal, Oat Bran, Natural Flavor, Pea Fiber, Dried Brewers Yeast, Dried Chicken Liver, Dried Chicory Root, Avocado Oil, Avocado Meal, Taurine Supplement, Lecithin, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Dried Yucca Schidigera, DL-Methionine, Dried Kelp, Parsley Flakes, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Source of Vitamin B2), Niacin, Choline Chloride, Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Source of Vitamin B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (Source of Vitamin B1), Biotin, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Zinc Polysaccharide Complex, Manganese Polysaccharide Complex, Iron Polysaccharide Complex, Copper Polysaccharide Complex, Cobalt Polysaccharide Complex, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite.

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Never fear! The FURminator is here!The FURminator De-Shedding Cat Tool Purple is one thing a house with long-haired cats shouldn’t be without. Not only for the sake of carpets, clothes, and furniture - but also for people with allergies. The FURminator could make life a whole lot sweeter.According to my two female cats (both of whom have gloriously long hair), the best thing about the FURminator De-Shedding Cat Tool, however, is the reduction of hairballs. According to them, hairballs are never pleasant. So hard to look elegant and mysterious when your eyes are bulging, your tongue’s hanging out and you sound like your lungs are coming out of your mouth. I’m just saying…

From the web site:

FURminator De-Shedding Tool for Cats reduces shedding up to 90 percent and also helps to eliminate hairballs in cats. Reduces the amount of airborne elements that cause allergic reactions in many people. Works great on long or short-hair cats!

I learned something new today - which is always a cool prospect. Did you know that it’s not at all uncommon for white cats to be deaf? My mom had a large (very, very) sweetheart of a cat, Chin Chin, who happened to be deaf.I read recently that very many white cats are. Especially those who also have blue eyes. Chin Chin’s were green, however.There is an established link between the white coat color, blue eyes and deafness. Congenial deafness is extremely rare in non-white cats.

A few statistics:

5 percent of the general cat population is white. 15-40 percent of these pure white cats have one or two blue-eyes.

Of those white cats with one or two blue eyes, 60-80 percent are deaf; 20-40 percent have normal hearing; 30-40 percent had one blue eye and were deaf while 60-70 percent had one blue eye and normal hearing.

We had a gorgeous white cat named Whiskers who had perfect hearing. In fact, she was the best hunter I’ve ever witnessed - including myself at a mall sale. She had three kittens who looked a lot like her (Krystal, General, Snoopy, and Scoobie. General was hit by a car when he was fairly young - and had never been particularly sociable. He always seemed pretty scared…and a little ticked off. Looking back, I think he was probably deaf. At the time, we lived in the country with over 12 cats outside - so it’s possible that it would have gone unnoticed at the time.

Sadly, it makes sense now why he got hit on a road that saw very little traffic - and extremely slow, farmers-headed-into-town traffic, at that. I always wondered how the little guy managed to get hit when none of the others did.

I’m pretty sure I know now.

If I had been older and more “in the know”, I’d have checked him out and, then if he were in fact deaf - moved him inside…attitude and all! I can remember so many times trying so hard to baby talk him and win him over - every other cat in three counties would jump in my lap but General! (He must have thought I was a complete fool.)