Vomiting cat, getting desperate!!

[gerbilfur]

Dcat is 6, female, black and white moggy.

She vomits all. The. Time. It's literally every 2-3 days. We've tried everything . Different foods. Food targeted at sensitive stomachs. Plain chicken. Plain fish. Nothing works!!! I am getting desperate. We have a Feliway, makes no difference. Been to vets multiple times, had expensive blood tests and scans and they can find nothing wrong with her. We have 3 dc, 3 boys but as they are not shared dc there is plenty of times they are at their respective dad/mums and the house is quiet, the cat still vomits. The vet also prescribed antacids, they didn't help. I am literally at my wits end. The house is a rental and let's say I've given up on getting the deposit back as she's damaged the carpet. She sometimes even vomits whilst eating?!

Any tips at all would be amazing we seriously don't know what else we can do

Does she eat too fast maybe?

www.iams.com/pet-health/cat-special-concerns/does-your-cat-have-tummy-troubles

Have you tried elevated cat bowls?

Is she otherwise ok?

Is she guzzling her food?

We had a cat that did this. She eat her breakfast/dinner then literally throw it back up the second she had finished.

We also tried all sorts.

The thing that worked in the end was to spread her food out across a fairly large plate. It forced her to slow down as she couldn't just gulp it down in one go, she had to literally pick her way across the plate! It worked though. Maybe try it and see?

Google regurgitation in cats- it had more info and ideas.

Have tried elevated cat bowls but not a bigger plate so will try that!

Could it be a form of BVS like dogs have?
My 8 yr old dog started doing this out of nowhere and after reading up on it and altering his food pattern it appears to have stopped.
He now gets fed first thing in the morning, mid afternoon and directly before bedtime.
Apologies if you’ve already tried this though. There’s nothing worse than a poorly pet.

Will look up BVS, thanks.

She is otherwise healthy, glossy coat and sleeps well

Following as my cat is the same.

We’ve tried most things at this stage. My cat was orphaned as a kitten and bottle fed, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

My cat used to vomit chronically and was diagnosed with IBD some years ago (and, later, Lymphoma). The last three years she has been on a mixture of steroids and a drug called Cerenia which is an anti-sickness. It's quite expensive but she now rarely vomits. I also had to try her on lots of different foods and diets to find one that suited her.

How often are you feeding? Is there any kind of pattern to the vomiting? Does she go outside?

One of ours vomits regularly but we've massively cut down the frequency with a couple of changes.

I know you've tried different diets, but we finally stumbled on Hill's Prescription Diet Gastric Biome which has been phenomenal for him. I'm in the US so not sure if it's in the UK, but it's definitely a newer release here.

We kept a diary of incidents and found he would often vomit at the same times- 4/5am and 4/5pm. He was fed at 6am and 6pm, so we realized that it was when his stomach was empty. We bought automatic feeders and he gets 4 small meals a day.

He also has asthma, so we changed pretty much all of our cleaning products to natural/unscented options including things like laundry detergent. This surprised us by cutting down gastric symptoms too. Interestingly, he'd vomit more at weekends, which was when we cleaned so I guess they were linked.

If you haven't already, another thing to try is keeping her inside for a few weeks. She may be prone to eating plants she shouldn't or something like that.

Is she on dry food?

Our cat can be a bit delicate like this. We found that splitting her meals helped - she gets in in four lots.

Definitely more at risk of puking if she hasn’t been fed straight away in the morning so I’d try little and often.

She has food as and when she asks for it, perhaps I should regulate her feeds more? It does seem to be regurgitation more than vomiting as she seems to do it very soon after feeding. She only eats dry food as with wet, although she loves it she will literally throw it up whilst eating it!

Mine was similar. The vet suggested putting him on a protein that his body didn't already 'know'. He now eats food based on either venison, rabbit or (I think) tuna. It did work.

Vet also said he might need a course of steroids to help his gut calm down but the change in diet has been enough. He has IBD apparently.

We also have the option of hydrolyzed proteins but not got to that stage yet.

I'm guessing she is an only cat?
The late Miss Tribulation used to bolt her food to stop Fat Boi stealing it.

One of ours vomits straight after eating if he's particularly hungry and eats too quickly. We have dry food available all the time so he can eat little and often and he hasn't had an episode in a couple of months because he never gets overly hungry any more.

If she is guzzling have you tried a slow feeder?

Something like this?

www.bitiba.co.uk/shop/cats_accessories/cat_bowls_feeders/feeders/other_products/1005471?variantid=1005471.0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxvi18enn7gIVwZ7tCh1djwqIEAQYBCABEgI3Y_D_BwE

We have a puker, he's had multiple tests, we've had omeprazole, tried plain fish etc none of it worked. He is on thyroid meds and we do wonder about a link to those given the timing of his episodes. At its worst he was being sick 2 or 3 times a day. He already had multiple small meals and we've continued with that, but he is now on a specialist food (biscuits) in which the protein is different or processed differently or some such. Anyway, it seems to be working well. We went several days without any vomiting although he was sick today but that was immediately post eating so regurgitation rather than vomiting I think.

Definitely try playing around with her meals a bit. Small and regular may help. If it's hard to do it with work hours you could do dry food in a robotic feeder during work, then wet food when you're home. Make sure you're calculating her calorie allowance too.

Our boy cat did this. He would guzzle his food and then throw up. The vet said plain chicken and rice for 3 days and we found Royal Canin sensitive biscuits. He was like a new cat! The shape of them slows down the guzzling. He still throws up occasionally.

He has wet and dry food and sometimes throws up the wet. But dry food can lead to kidney issues so I keep him on both.

We have the same issue.

Things which have helped. A slow feeder bowl.

Expensive dry royal canin hypoallergenic cat food. Sensitive cat food isn’t enough, needs to be hypoallergenic. We’ve now moved to Arden grange hypoallergenic which is a bit cheaper and seems to work still.

Apparently some cats are allergic to chicken and fish. Turkey is lower allergy. Our next thing to try if the hypoallergenic stuff hadnt worked was cat food made from crushed insects. Seriously

I've got two cats (brother & sister)
The male can be left with a bowl of food all day and he'll just eat as and when he needs
The female eats everything in her bowl every time and it got to the point where she was throwing up at least twice a week...
So they now have microchip controlled feeding bowls so she can't eat his food.
He still gets to graze when he feels like it and she gets several much smaller meals spaced out through the day. It seems to help.
Mind you, she also hasn't been going out as much as it's been so cold for the last few weeks so it could also be that someone else is feeding her something that she can't tolerate (I've got a nosy neighbour who I suspect has been leaving cheap cat food out and both of mine need to be on special food for various reasons)