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Pat - 23 Jul 2006 05:46 GMT

I'm learning how to stop his barfing. The key seems to be to give him a bit
less food than he wants. Take it away while he's still very interested in
eating. This involves taking him into the bathroom, shutting out the other
cats, and waiting while he eats, then taking the food away when he starts
slowing down.

In response to this new ritual, he has taken up residence in the bathroom,
on the counter next to the sink, where he gets fed. If I take food in there
for him and he doesn't practically jump into the dish, he doesn't get
anything for another hour or three. But he waits right there for his next
opportunity. And if he gets hungry before I show up with some food, he finds
me and climbs onto my shoulder and headbutts my face until I agree to feed
him.

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Magic Mood Jeep© - 23 Jul 2006 14:10 GMT

> I'm learning how to stop his barfing. The key seems to be to give him
> a bit less food than he wants. Take it away while he's still very
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> show up with some food, he finds me and climbs onto my shoulder and
> headbutts my face until I agree to feed him.

Sounds like he's got Smokey's Disease. she has a tendency to gobble down
her food, and a few minutes later - BARF! There it is! On the carpet!
Yech!

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Enfilade - 23 Jul 2006 14:31 GMT

> Sounds like he's got Smokey's Disease. she has a tendency to gobble down
> her food, and a few minutes later - BARF! There it is! On the carpet!
> Yech!

Indeed. Kumani threw up three times yesterday, after a whole week of
no problems. She was really hungry and fussy in the morning, as bad as
Smokey-poke. SHe wolfed her food, then up it came. Repeat int he
evening. So far, so good today...

--Fil

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Jo Firey - 23 Jul 2006 15:53 GMT

> I'm learning how to stop his barfing. The key seems to be to give him a
> bit less food than he wants. Take it away while he's still very interested
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> he finds me and climbs onto my shoulder and headbutts my face until I
> agree to feed him.

I sure hope this works. Sounds familiar too. I'm trying to remember but
one of my cats would eat more than he could handle at one sitting. I'm
thinking it was Henry. He was my more delicate Meezer. We lost him too
young back when we first discovered FLV. Strange thing was the feral we
took in that infected him lived another four years.

We've pretty much always fed kibble on demand. But in his case we had to
put kibble out in small "doses"

I don't remember him always being that way. More that he caught some sort
of bug that upset his stomach and it was always kind of delicate after that.

Jo

Jo

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