CAT GRASS: What You Need to Know 

Grass helps cats expel hairballs, so if your cats are always trying to eat your plants (my cat was doing that as well), it might be because they're trying to get rid of a hairball.

Yay that’s so fun! Enjoy 😊

Nina is straight fire!! And cares about animals and living things 🔥

Good point, it is a very unique texture! I got my wheel from One Fast Cat online 😊

I do with mine because they only eat a few bites at a time. But many cats can’t help themselves and overdo it, then end up puking it up. So I would watch your cats with it the first few times to see their behavior with it.

I allow my cats to have access to the cat grass for a monitored amount of time since excessive consumption could cause vomiting. I just put it on a shelf they can’t get to when I can’t slow them from chowing down. I haven’t had any issues with them puking. As for hair balls, the hairball treats or hair all formulated diet would be best at helping with passing hairballs through digestion vs vomiting them up

If you 'mist' the cat (wheat) grass every few days, it can last about 7-10 days. Usually, our cats have worn it down, by then! Good luck.

Their rootballs are pretty big. Mine came w only peat moss but ideally you'd probably want rich, well draining soil. Plants are either perennial (live for years), annual (one season) or biennial (2-3 seasons) but they self seed so you don't need to worry about them. Good quality seeds should* last at least one season

I recommend making sure your cat doesn’t have access to toxic items. Some will eat toxic plants and more if given the opportunity. There is a whole poison control hotline for a reason. Cats very often make bad choices.

I’m glad it’s worked out for your cat by never getting poisoned. The Karen’s that live in my unit sprayed for bugs in the yard, planted toxic plants and now after eating the tip of a plant my cat has fits/ drools urinates on herself when these episodes occur. Finally stopped after a week and a few weeks later bought her a different brand of pet food that had plant based starch/ inulin and fit started again. Ok for a while and mrs got her catnip plant then she started drooling and had a fit. Cat owners who think drooling is cute or ok are retarted.

I kept it in my kitchen at first, we don’t have much natural light in there, a bathroom could work too. For watering, I would touch the top of the soil and if it felt dry I would water.

Excellent advice! Too many horror stories of cats getting into toxic plants

I have a regular spray bottle that I can mist it with. However, cat grass is more like a sprout than a plant. So it usually only lasts 2 weeks for me before I need to soak another batch of seeds

@@badcatfamily I was curious about this too. I want to invest in getting the soil/seeds myself because it only lasts around a week each time and that's $5 down the drain again and again lol

@@uarebuttwhatami other tips would be to use a bigger planter to give the roots more room and to trim the blades of grass back a bit to keeps the tips from dying and ruining the rest of the blade

@@badcatfamily thank you! that does make sense it tends to get super long which probably causes it to die faster. appreciate the reply

I would suggest either most it daily or add a small amount of water twice a week

My cats are shedding like crazy this time of year too. My favorite is the slicker brush (which may be the one that looks like the torture device as you were describing. Which is hilarious because I think it looks crazy too but my cats love it). But if those don’t work for your cat, I’ve heard good things about the Furminator although I’ve never tried it. Good luck with shedding season! I’ve been busting out the vacuum every other day this month 🤣

@@badcatfamily thank you so much

I have a video on training tips 😊

Yes, excellent suggestion of catnip. Both cat grass and catnip are great cat enrichment with different benefits. I haven’t tried growing my own catnip yet, always have used dried, but that’s an excellent idea for a video. Thank you 😊

My wife and I grow catnip among other herbs and our cats really Love eating those Leafy greens!!😃 It's So Fun to watch them eat it, especially out of your hands!!😊

What do you mean by funny and how much grass did they eat?

Thank you 😊

@@badcatfamily 👍

Yes! Check what the mix of greens are in it to make sure, but many people add it to blended juices.

How do you personally prefer information about cat grass to be communicated? Always looking for ideas to improve my videos.

I am a man and appreciate this video very much!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video!! I am Now going to get very grass now!!😃

I'm a manly man and my attention span is so manly, I can't watch videos for more than twenty seconds because I'm too manly

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