# April 29th - National Hairball Awareness Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 29, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430 "2016-04-29T15:32:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430/1 "2016-04-29T15:32:54Z")

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Today is National Hairball Awareness Day.

Bill the Cat does it proud today:

> **[Log into Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1192239164140168/?type=3&theater)**
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> Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know.

> **[National Hairball Awareness Day](https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/hairball-awareness-day/)**
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> Cats get hairballs…right? Yes, and no. For many cats, the occasional hairball is normal and healthy, but be aware of signs that these hairballs might be harming them.

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**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430/2 "2016-04-29T15:36:18Z")

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Wonderful. Give my cat _more_ excuses to yack up a hairball at 3 am…

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430/3 "2016-04-29T15:47:12Z")

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> [@Azeotrope](#):
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> Wonderful. Give my cat _more_ excuses to yack up a hairball at 3 am…

Since when does a cat need an excuse? 😃

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430/4 "2016-04-29T16:04:13Z")

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That’s why you all should have rabbits for pets–buns groom like cats but can’t pass hairballs, so you have to give them pineapple which has an enzyme that dissolves the hair in their guts or else you have to give them an intestinal lubricant which is just too horrible to contemplate…(can’t breath)…

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**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-29th-national-hairball-awareness-day/753430/5 "2016-04-29T21:07:50Z")

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I have birds, fish, and dogs. No hairballs here. However, in honor of the holiday, I will pretend the dustbunnies under the bed are hairballs and will continue to ignore them.