I doubt I’ve posted anything here about hairballs in cats before, despite having cats that sometimes leave them around the house, as it’s not really an infectious disease issue. However, Dr. Samantha Taylor, a feline and internal medicine specialist who’s been at the forefront of navigating the new realities of antiviral use for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in cats, is coordinating a short survey looking at grooming and hairball behaviour in cats, to help answer understudied questions about how common hairballs are and factors that might be associated with them. So I figured we could help by sharing the survey link with our many cat-owning readers.

I’m not involved in this survey, but I completed it as a cat owner myself. Fellow cat owners can access the survey as well through the link below:

The Fur Report 2026: Survey on grooming behaviour and hairballs in pet cats

No hairballs yet from Franklin, my daughter’s new cat (pictured above)… but he looks like he’s planning something.