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Cat Forum / General Topics / February 2004Help! cat throws up constantly
Hi, We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he throws up constantly. We are wondering if a change in food would make a difference. We have tried all kinds of food over the past couple of years. Wet, moist, dry, expensive, hairballtreatment, cheap, you name it, he eats, he throws it up! We spent alot of money a year or so ago at the Vets, and they suggested a different food which didn't work. We are living in a new area where Vet service is not cheap, I am unemployed, and we don't have much money. Anyone have any suggestions? Or has anyone delt with this sort of thing before? Help! This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank You Are you saying he cant keep anything down?? When you say he throws up constantly, how often is that? Daily? Many times thru the day? every couple of days? once a week? A cat who is truly throwing up contantly...( every hour or so) probably has swallowed something that needs to be removed If he eats too fast that too can cause him to throw up. What can he keep down??? > Hi, > We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. > Thank You When does he throw up? Is it right after meals? What is he throwing up? Are you sure it's not a hairball? Some cats eat too fast. If that is the case the simpliest thing to do is feed very small amonts every few hours. > Hi, > We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. > Thank You >Hi, >We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. > Thank You Feed him very small meals over an hoour so he takes in a normal meal slowly. He may be bolting his food and that's making him sick  Signature79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot. The other 42% are made up later on. In Warwick - looking at flat fields and that includes the castle. 16 Feb 2004: > Anyone have any suggestions? Or has > anyone delt with this sort of thing before? Help! This is driving me > crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. Few questions: o Does he eat mainly dry, canned, combination of both? o How often have you switched food, and have you done a gradual switch and how long do you feed the new food before deciding it doesn't help? o When he throws up, is it undigested food? Mixed with fur? Fully digested moosh? o Is his weight dropping or staying steady? SignatureCheryl Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet. MIB II Others gave you great suggestions. My previous cat threw up whenever she ate a large meals. So, I switched to free feeding her just dry food, which solved the problem. Ditto about not switching food so quickly - sometimes a changing diet will cause a cat to throw up. Dik >We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he >throws up constantly. We are wondering if a change in food would make a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >anyone delt with this sort of thing before? Help! This is driving me >crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. Could it be quantity? I had a cat who ate too fast, cutting the quantity down to smaller quantities over several sittings fixed the problem. He would throw up when he got more than 3/4 oz. in a sitting. Spitting that serving size between four sittings one hour apart cured the problem. Aparently he just ate too fast. -------------------------------------------- "Finally a member of the Jackson family finds another young boy to victimize." -------------------------Jimmy Fallon on SNL referring to Justin Timberlake To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. This might be a fairly easy cure. The FIRST thing that you need to do, is to remove all grain from his diet. Grain is the number one irritant to cats with sensitive digestive systems. There is a cat food at the supermarket that is totally grainfree. Put him on this food for several days and see if it makes any difference. The name of the canned cat food is Sheba. It is readily available all over the US. Also there is a yahoo chat group specifically for the problem you have describe. It is called Feline IBD. Here is a link to it; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FelineIBD/ They have over 1000 members, and have tons of helpful information over there. Good luck! > Hi, > We have a 6 year old male american Domestic Cat. The problem is he [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > crazy. Any suggestions are appreciated. > Thank You A big Thank You to everybody who responded to my post. All of your suggestions seem very helpful. The cat DOES seem to bolt his food. And I am also going to try the suggestion with the SHEBA cat food Thanks again, for everyone being so helpful and nice! XtraButter Yes, try both of the tips; Try slowing down his eating, and if that doesn't work, then eliminate all grains and use Sheba. Let us know how it goes. Good luck!! > A big Thank You to everybody who responded to my post. > All of your suggestions seem very helpful. The cat DOES seem to bolt his > food. And I am also going to try the suggestion with the SHEBA cat food > Thanks again, for everyone being so helpful and nice! > XtraButter Hi - my add'l two cents. Rexie (18 mo old Siamese) was throwing up every couple of days. The vet asked if he was eating too much/too fast, etc. Said to watch his behavior. What we observed was that we had fallen into Rexie's trap of having us stand and pet him while he ate. It was cute at first, but not having the patience of Job, and having other things to do, we'd stand there for a minuite or two, then leave. Turned out, that's when he'd eat the most, as he didn't like to eat alone. And since he knew we wouldn't stand there long, he was GULPING. Of COURSE he threw up later. So we started making a practive of not going near his dish, and he gradually started eating even when we weren't there. Now, we make it a treat, and once in the morning and before we hit the sack, we sit and pet while he eats. This has seemed to satisfy the "not wanting to be alone" habit, without the need to gulp. Geez, who trains who, huh?? To reply by mail, remove 'nicks'. Shirley B., #6 ASMS Lists Webmaster: http://jumi-shirley-butler.com http://www.geocities.com/mhc_reporter "Making a way out of no way is sometimes the only way" Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole ~Yes, try both of the tips; Try slowing down his eating, and if that doesn't ~work, then eliminate all grains and use Sheba. Let us know how it goes. ~Good luck!! ~"XtraButter" <Tanjes@yahoo.com> wrote in message ~news:MPG.1a9bd758db026319896ac@news.chartermi.net... ~> A big Thank You to everybody who responded to my post. ~> All of your suggestions seem very helpful. The cat DOES seem to bolt his ~> food. And I am also going to try the suggestion with the SHEBA cat food ~> Thanks again, for everyone being so helpful and nice! ~> XtraButter ~ > Hi - my add'l two cents. Rexie (18 mo old Siamese) was throwing up > every couple of days. The vet asked if he was eating too much/too [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Geez, who trains who, huh?? Greetings, I normally lurk, but I had to reply after seeing your account of this unusual behaviour. My cat Mittens does the same thing! We adopted him when he was just six weeks old in 1996. I think we were over-enthusiastic when we were encouraging him to eat. We would pet the little guy and give him lavish praise as he munched away. He also likes us to blow lightly on the fur on his back as he eats. He is a strange one. Actually, when you think about it, we're the strange ones, not the cats. I guess, during that imprinting period, he has come to believe that eating equals good. Fortunately, he doesn't over-eat, but he does wait at his food bowl (always filled with kibble, 24/7) for a passerby to be his spotter. He used to throw up, but doesn't anymore. What I did was encourage him that drinking water is also a praise-worthy action. He even drinks out of my cup of water on my desk! It's really flattering that he aims to be a good boy. |
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