Belle
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Post by Belle on Aug 29, 2017 16:51:45 GMT
My cat is an 8 year old short hair cat and does not go outside. She is extremely "aggressive" when taken to the vet so bringing her in for a quick check up isn't an option. If she goes to the vet, she has to be heavily sedated so I have spoken with our vet but have not brought her in for a check up yet. She has been throwing up off and on for the past year or so with the throwing up happening more and more. It used to be a few times a month and now it is a few times a week. She hasn't lost much weight so I assume that is good. In July, I took her off of dry food and transitioned to 100% wet food. It seemed to help a little bit but hasn't stopped the throwing up. For the past week or two, she has thrown up a couple of times. I have also tried different dry foods to see if that would make a difference but it really hasn't. Yesterday, I picked up specialty food from our vet but she has thrown it up 4 times this morning. Could be because of transitioning to a new food or  Anyone have an suggestions on what I can do to help my cat? Really hoping to solve this before taking her to the vet. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 29, 2017 16:52:50 GMT
does she have hairballs, or is she just throwing up her food?
does she eat really fast? is the throwing up right after she eats? one of our cats sometimes throws up when she eats too quickly.
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Post by librarylady on Aug 29, 2017 16:55:06 GMT
Probably related to hair balls.
Get her to eat some Vaseline....or you can purchase a tube of a product made for this. It is flavored Vaseline, IMO.
One cat we had would lick it out of the tube, loved it.
Other cat didn't like it.
Wipe some of the Vaseline on her paws and when she licks it off it will help her eliminate the hair.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 29, 2017 16:59:26 GMT
I have the malt-flavored stuff for hairballs. Even though my previous cats LOVED the stuff and would lick it right off my finger, I have to *force* it for our current cats- I try to get a dab of it into their mouth (which usually means it will end up smeared on their nose / whiskers, lol) and they lick it off when they wash their faces. Hairballs usually get worse for our cats when they're shedding their coat during the change of seasons.
our cat will dry hack, then puke a few times and it's just water, food, etc. before she's actually successful at throwing up the hairball.
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Belle
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Post by Belle on Aug 29, 2017 17:00:18 GMT
She is a fast eater and we have a cat food "thingy" that slows her down. Maybe I need to just give her less food more frequently throughout the day?
I haven't tried anything for hairballs, I will look into that today! Thank you!
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Post by Belle on Aug 29, 2017 17:04:03 GMT
I have the malt-flavored stuff for hairballs. Even though my previous cats LOVED the stuff and would lick it right off my finger, I have to *force* it for our current cats- I try to get a dab of it into their mouth (which usually means it will end up smeared on their nose / whiskers, lol) and they lick it off when they wash their faces. Hairballs usually get worse for our cats when they're shedding their coat during the change of seasons. our cat will dry hack, then puke a few times and it's just water, food, etc. before she's actually successful at throwing up the hairball. When I was growing up I had a Persian, long haired cat so we always gave her Petromalt (I think that is what it was called) We put a bit of it on the top of her paw, she couldn't lick it away fast enough. Maybe you can trick your cat into giving her self a bath and she won't notice the flavor? I haven't noticed any hairballs when cleaning up after my cat but I am going to try the hairball stuff. Can't hurt at this point! |
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Post by styxgirl on Aug 29, 2017 17:22:26 GMT
I would try the hairball stuff too. I had a kitty that barfed alot (no hairballs) once we started using the malt hairball stuff, they came out one way or another and the barfing stopped!
We would have to put it on her paw and she would clean it off.
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Post by pridemom on Aug 29, 2017 17:48:31 GMT
She is a fast eater and we have a cat food "thingy" that slows her down. Maybe I need to just give her less food more frequently throughout the day? I haven't tried anything for hairballs, I will look into that today! Thank you! This is a good try. How about one of the balls that holds food and they have to roll it around for food to fall out. It only falls out a little at a time, so they eat very slowly. One of my cats eats really fast and then yaks it all up. I bought feeders that have spikey bumps to make him eat around that slows him down. |
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Post by kellapea on Aug 29, 2017 17:53:21 GMT
My cat had a vomiting problem. I did a lot of research on it and spent tons of money on xrays, tests, prescription medicine and special foods. She was eventually diagnosed with ibd. In cats ibd often means they become extremely allergic to an ingredient in their food- usually the protein or the grain-especially if they've eaten the same food over a very long time period. I tried a lot of grain-free/limited ingredient foods but my cat wouldn't eat them. She became so weak she almost died. The food she finally ate that "cured" her, which was new at the time, is Blue Buffalo Basics: bluebuffalo.com/product-finder/cat/?facets=Cat_Basics,Cat_Adult. I hope this is not what's wrong with your cat and don't mean to scare you. But here are some links where you can learn more about feline vomiting and ibd: Vomiting in Cats: www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+2122&aid=3576Yahoo Feline IBD group: groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/felineibd1/infoYou Tube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-9JxN-gZ4 |
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Post by danalz on Aug 29, 2017 17:59:03 GMT
I noticed that our cat puked more after he had a beef flavored wet food. We now only give him seafood flavors and it helped. He's always been a puker since he was a kitten. The change in food just reduced it to one or two times a month.
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Post by PrettyInPeank on Aug 29, 2017 19:36:05 GMT
I've heard if animals becoming intolerant to chicken. It's the awful diet of the chicken and antibiotics or something.
Maybe try salmon only?
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Post by scrapaddie on Aug 29, 2017 22:13:44 GMT
It could be nynumber of things from too fast eating to hair balls to something serious (?for my cat, it was pancreatitis). But if your cat seems otherwise helthy, I would try some of th suggestions above.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 30, 2017 7:55:43 GMT
One of my four cats is on a different diet that the others because she will vomit if she eats anything other that the dehydrated food that I soak in warm water for her. It isn't fur balls, it is her actual meal that comes back out. Now that I feed her this very high quality, grain free dehydrated food, she hasn't vomited once. I also have to watch the other cat's wet food like a hawk because she will try to get in there and eat whatever is left after the other cats walk away. I need to either pick it up immediately or put the cat with the tender tummy into a different room so she cannot get to the other cat's wet food. She hates being separated out and will meow and scratch at the door until I let her back out, but if she eats any of their canned food, she will vomit that plus her expensive dehydrated food. Between her reconstituted dehydrated food and the occasional bit of cooked chicken, that is all she has been able to keep down for the last few years. I can't even change flavors of the dehydrated food or she will throw that up too. It's strange. The dehydrated doesn't smell awful like normal wet food. She also has smaller poops that don't stink like the other cats do, which is why I would love to get them all to eat it, even though it is expensive. The vet was really pleased with her coat growth and all of her tests the last time I took her in for a checkup. He also said feeding them a high quality wet food like that will keep her out of his office and may even eliminate the end of life kidney disease that most cats end up getting. Someone once told me that all cats will get kidney disease if they live long enough. I don't know if that's true or not, but I've had a cat with it before and the constant need to give them fluids through the back of their necks was so upsetting for both the cat and me. I ended up unable to do it to her and had to drive her to the vet 3 times a week to have the vet techs do it for me. I hope that maybe trying out different foods or this fur ball treatment mentioned above will be the answer for your kitty. This is what I give her now. Primal Nuggets, Turkey flavored |
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