Thanks everyone you have been so helpful .

That's a really good tip about looking for one on ebay, I will definatly do that. Though I am going to have a look at what one looks like in a pet shop or something first, just so I know. I will have a look at the stickys too, and I am going to check the ingredients of the cat food we have in currently as well.

He's not a show cat Aurelia but I wouldn't want to brush him too much anyway, he really dislikes being brushed!

Alison the vet did say last time (when he had all the tests and it turned out to be a hairball) to put fully on wet food and then re-introduce the dry, which we did. But I'll look at just wet again, might be best for him.

Thanks again and I will keep you updated on his progress, I wonder though why the other cats aren't the same.

Are the tinned wet foods with jelly, because he doesn't like jelly foods. He'll eat a little of them, but if the chunk of meat has jelly round it and he can feel it he spits it out and then scrapes over it (you know, like they do when they have, erm, been to the toilet). He has some funny habits does Oscar, that's why we mix food, he will eat more of the wet when there's dry in it. I'm not sure where we stand on the gravy ones, he will sometimes eat them, but he's highly suspicious.

He also eats cucumber, tomatoes and melon...though not if I know about it.

Most of the high quality wet food are pate form rather than chunks in jelly. The bozita tetra packs are chunks in jelly but the tins are not. Smilla, Animoda carny, Grau...they are all pate.

Thank you

You can also buy dry food that helps with hairballs...lots of brands do a hairball version (sometimes they call it an indoor version)...but I am no expert eg no idea if wet can also have this or if it is as healthy

You can also buy grooming gloves that some cats prefer to brushes. I also have discovered stroking and running my fingers through their fur with kitchen rubber gloves takes off buckets of hair and my cat that hates brushes doesn't mind it at all

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