Helping your cat with their autumn shedding

A new season is arriving: you put your fresh, light clothes back in the wardrobe and make room for the winter and warmer ones.
Just as humans, when autumn is coming, cats start making their “season change” too: in fact, they begin to change their fresh, soft, summer coat with the winter one, which is softer and warmer.
It’s time for autumn shedding: a very important, delicate step that may be annoying and uncomfortable for your cat.
Below are 3 simple tips to help your cat with their autumn shedding.
 

1. Brush them often

Brush is one of the main objects to help your cat with their autumn shedding. Some regular brushing, in fact, may be useful to eliminate dead coat and prevent the formation of tangles, which are harder to unravel.
How often should you brush your feline friend’s coat? It depends on coat type.
Long or semi-long-haired cats should be brushed daily during their autumn shedding, while, for the rest of the year, you only have to do it every two or three days.
Short-haired cats instead should be brushed three or four times per week during shedding, depending on how much hair the cat loses.

2. Some help from nature

Although cats’ rough tongue is ideal for their cleaning, it doesn’t help them to spit their hair out.
So, their hair is swallowed and then expelled in faeces or with vomit. These situations occur quite often during cats’ autumun shedding.
Then, if your cat usually stays outdoors, they won’t hesitate to eat grass. In this way, they can expel extra hair ingested during their daily toileting and free their stomach.
Is your cat used to staying at home? We recommend you always make sure to leave them some catnip available: offer it to your cat whenever they need some help during digestion.
 

3. Be careful to hairballs formation

Throughout cats’ shedding, hairballs formation inside their stomach may cause some problems to their digestive system.
Besides brushing your cat’s hairto prevent them from eating it, you should also correctly feed them to contrast hairballs formation.
Foods rich in fibre, for example, may help ingested hair to easily pass through your cat’s oesophagus and prevent it from getting stuck in their stomach, where it ends up and form hairballs. Specific ingredients like malt extract and vegetable fibres, contained in Oasy Hairball Chicken, are the best ones to support your cat’s digestion and help them eliminate hairballs. With more than 70% animal ingredients, Oasy Hairball Chicken is a nutritious, tasty meal not only during shedding time, but for your cat’s daily diet.
Throughout the year, in fact, the daily diet plays an essential role in the maintaining general health of skin and coat: food with a lot of quality, highly digestible animal proteins, helps cats have a healthier coat. Moreover, Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids are essential to support the growth of a strong coat. All Oasy Dry Cat foods have at least 70% of animal ingredients, a very high percentage, of which 40% is always fresh meat, rich in vitamins and nutrients. The balanced intake of Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids promotes a healthy skin and a thick, bright coat.