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Cat Vomiting - please help
I have a 13 1/2 year old male tabby. About four months ago he started
to vomit usually, but not always shortly after eating. Since I only feed him once a day that meant he threw up all his food for the day. Right after that he'd be begging for food. I took him to the vet who examined him and said he appeared to be just fine. He suggested it was probably a hair ball and told me to give him hair ball remedy twice a day for a couple of weeks. I did but that didn't help too much. I tried feeding him very small portions many times daily. I even tried tossing the food on the rug to force him to eat slowly. Nothing really helped. Eventually the vomiting stopped on it's own in a few weeks. After having no problems for about two months he's started again. He threw up his dinner yesterday morning and this morning. I feed him at 8 pm at night but when he threw up it was clearly his entire meal. Since he sleeps right after eating for the rest of the night I'm not sure if having the whole meal still in his stomach is unusual or not. This morning he not only threw up the meal but continued throwing up for about 15 minutes. He threw up 18 times in all. He has NEVER done that before. About 15 minutes later he was begging for food. Here's my problem: my husband just had heart bypass surgery. I am barely able to cope with what I need to do for him. I cannot take the cat to the vet and start with tests, special treatments,etc. In fact I can't take him at all. If he doesn't improve I may have to have him put down since I cannot allow the cat to interfere with what I need to do for my husband. There is nobody else that can help me with the cat or my husband. I love my cat and don't want to lose him. I was wondering if I should change his food? I give him Science Diet Feline Light Maintenance (1/2 cup daily). This has been his diet for the past 12 years and he has thrived until now. Is canned food easier to digest? I just don't know what to do. Don't know if this is related but a few days before this all started four months ago he ate a mouse. He caught it in the kitchen, ate it and threw it up, along with his food all over the house. It looked like a mini autopsy on my living room floor. The vet didn't think it was related. He is an indoor cat and has no contact whatsoever with other animals. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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Is it possible that he is swallowing the dry food without chewing it -
maybe a tooth problem? Why not try a good quality canned food (not supermarket types) and see if that helps. ---MIKE--- |
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"Carol" wrote in message om... I have a 13 1/2 year old male tabby. About four months ago he started to vomit usually, but not always shortly after eating. Since I only feed him once a day that meant he threw up all his food for the day. Why do you only feed him once a day? By the time he eats he's probably starving. Right after that he'd be begging for food. I took him to the vet who examined him and said he appeared to be just fine. He suggested it was probably a hair ball and told me to give him hair ball remedy twice a day for a couple of weeks. I did but that didn't help too much. I tried feeding him very small portions many times daily. I even tried tossing the food on the rug to force him to eat slowly. Nothing really helped. Eventually the vomiting stopped on it's own in a few weeks. So you're also feeding him dry food. This stuff expands in the stomach, particularly when a cat has not eaten in 24 hours, I bet. No wonder he vomits. You know he needs to see the vet again. He also needs to be put on good canned food and fed twice a day, about 12 hours apart. Good luck. |
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"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... Is it possible that he is swallowing the dry food without chewing it - They don't chew dry food. maybe a tooth problem? Why not try a good quality canned food (not supermarket types) and see if that helps. ---MIKE--- |
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So you're also feeding him dry food. This stuff expands in the stomach,
particularly when a cat has not eaten in 24 hours, I bet. No wonder he vomits. If anybody doubts this, just try wetting a few kibbles of dry food and watch them puff up twice their original volume, but maintain their shape. It's creepy. |
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"Sherry " wrote in message ... So you're also feeding him dry food. This stuff expands in the stomach, particularly when a cat has not eaten in 24 hours, I bet. No wonder he vomits. If anybody doubts this, just try wetting a few kibbles of dry food and watch them puff up twice their original volume, but maintain their shape. It's creepy. I know it from scraping it up off the floor ten minutes after Cheeks eats it. The pieces are noticably bigger than when they went in. She LOVES Purina One Tuna and Salmon, (my cats are junk food junkies, sigh) and she is so skinny I can't say no so she gets it. |
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Yes, switch to high quality canned food and feed him small amounts as
frequently as possible. Gail "Mary" wrote in message ... "Carol" wrote in message om... I have a 13 1/2 year old male tabby. About four months ago he started to vomit usually, but not always shortly after eating. Since I only feed him once a day that meant he threw up all his food for the day. Why do you only feed him once a day? By the time he eats he's probably starving. Right after that he'd be begging for food. I took him to the vet who examined him and said he appeared to be just fine. He suggested it was probably a hair ball and told me to give him hair ball remedy twice a day for a couple of weeks. I did but that didn't help too much. I tried feeding him very small portions many times daily. I even tried tossing the food on the rug to force him to eat slowly. Nothing really helped. Eventually the vomiting stopped on it's own in a few weeks. So you're also feeding him dry food. This stuff expands in the stomach, particularly when a cat has not eaten in 24 hours, I bet. No wonder he vomits. You know he needs to see the vet again. He also needs to be put on good canned food and fed twice a day, about 12 hours apart. Good luck. |
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I know it from scraping it up off the floor ten minutes after
Cheeks eats it. The pieces are noticably bigger than when they went in. She LOVES Purina One Tuna and Salmon, (my cats are junk food junkies, sigh) and she is so skinny I can't say no so she gets it. That's the *only* food Bootsie will eat with any regularity. She won't even eat Fancy Feast. The only canned food she will touch is Nutro "Hunter's Stew". Sigh. I open cans and she sniffs and *runs*. Then Biskit comes along and finishes it up. So Bootsie is still tiny and Biskit is getting fat. Sherry |
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Mary, they may not "chew" dry food but they sure do break it up. I can
hear Amber doing this. ---MIKE--- |
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"Sherry " wrote in message ... I know it from scraping it up off the floor ten minutes after Cheeks eats it. The pieces are noticably bigger than when they went in. She LOVES Purina One Tuna and Salmon, (my cats are junk food junkies, sigh) and she is so skinny I can't say no so she gets it. That's the *only* food Bootsie will eat with any regularity. She won't even eat Fancy Feast. The only canned food she will touch is Nutro "Hunter's Stew". Sigh. I open cans and she sniffs and *runs*. Then Biskit comes along and finishes it up. So Bootsie is still tiny and Biskit is getting fat. Hmm, seems there may be the secret "Kitty Crack" ingredient in this Purina food, just as there is in FF Chopped Grill. Your Biskit is like my Buddha. She wolfs all of her canned food then sneaks upstairs (low to the ground and furtive, like very fat tuxedo land sub) to find Cheeky's if I don't pick it right up. Sherry, Boo is HUGE since the hypothryoid correction. I play with her as much as I can, but nothing seems to help. BTW, I tried Nutro's Hunter's Stew on my cats, and they liked it better than the other Nutro brands but I had to mash up the chunks with a fork. *rolling eyes* |
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