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My cat is vomiting. Are these signs of hairballs? What should I do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 4 lbs

What are signs of hair balls

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Answered By Oneal Bogan, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on January 15th, 2018

Hi there, Hair balls typically cause vomiting or unproductive retching in cats. Sometimes they will vomit something up and other times they appear to be trying to vomit something up but nothing comes. I hope that helps and thanks for using Pet Coach!

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