Why do cats spit out hairballs?
Call the nearest zoo and ask a feline keeper if the lions, tigers, leopards they have there cough up hairballs. Can you guess what the answer will be????? Cats naturally have a raw meat diet (zoo cats do). When you feed your cat food that is 2/3 corn the digestive juices in its stomach has to dissolve the hair ingested and the inappropriate grain that is the major component of its diet. It can’t handle it. All felines of whatever species are very compulsive groomers. On a “natural” diet of meat the stomach acids take care of the hair the cat ingests from grooming and there are no “hairballs”. My cats all eat a diet of almost 100% meat. None of them ever throws up a hairball.
