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Cat very hungry but vomiting...causes? TMI sorry

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Flightattendant · 11/12/2009 20:53

I'll be taking her to the vet on Monday anyway (unless it gets dramatically worse of course) but I wondered whether anyone else had had these symptoms in their cat.

She's been very hungry for the past few weeks - I put it down to the weather, she's been like this before - and also have wormed her early this week.

However since about a day before I wormed her she has been being sick. She did it that morning and the next day seemed OK so I gave her the tablet. Yesterday she was sick some more...it was (TMI) just her food with some random gunk, then just clear bubbly stuff/mucus. I stopped her food for most of the day, then she seemed OK so fed her again last night and this morning. She was sick this morning, same again, so I have only given her half her food this afternoon and she has sicked up some clear stuff again - I don't know if she threw up her food as well outside.
She's desperately hungry, and looks very well, not droopy or fretful or making pained noises. I meant to go out and check she's been having poos but forgot this evening - I'll look tomorrow.
She also seems very plump and is not wasting away by any means.

any thoughts? I have a few ideas - worms, maybe, as her pill was a bit late - but would it work now?
Or maybe she ate something stupid in the garden, as she was so desperate - she was going for mad stuff like bread the week before and it's caused a blockage?

Or maybe it's a trapped furball.
I read that gastritis in cats is normally self limiting, if it's a mild infection...anyway, I will obviously take her in next Monday if she's still doing it but in the meantime I'd be glad of suggestions. No more food tonight, just water available...I might give her some plain fish tomorrow.

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Flightattendant · 11/12/2009 20:54

oh and as if that wasn't enough for her, she was having an attack of her usual urine problem on Wednesday as well - in between being sick, she had a day of standing trying to spray/wee and only a drop coming out

That's something she gets about once or twice a year and I gave her metacam, and she seems OK in that respect now at least. Poor old thing.

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FabIsVeryFestive · 11/12/2009 20:55

Aw, poor thing.

Mine is always asking for food when she can't be hungry. Maybe she wants to fatten up for winter.

I hope she is okay, (yours I mean.)

MollieO · 11/12/2009 20:57

Isn't your vet open Saturday mornings? I would be taking her tomorrow if she was mine.

CMOTdibbler · 11/12/2009 20:57

With my cats, whenever it is food, then clear it is always hairballs. My old boy was very prone to them. Lets hope she clears it soon

Flightattendant · 11/12/2009 20:58

thanks Fab, yes I feel the yearly fatten up is complete (me too - seriously!!)

it's the throwing up that's worrying me though.

I do hope she hasn't gone and swallowed a whole mouse or pigeon or something. You might think it by the shape of her.

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Flightattendant · 11/12/2009 21:00

Thanks - Mollie I don't know. CMOT thanks, how long does it usually take them? I do seem to remember she's done this a few times, for a few days, and finally a hairball appears.

I just have horrible thoughts of her having a blockage or something. I had another cat eyars ago who needed surgery to unblock her bowels. She was much older though. And I think they're meant to stop being hungry if it's that. She's definitely hungry.

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CMOTdibbler · 11/12/2009 21:04

Usually it seems to take a max of 5 days - the current cats are always on hairball controll crunchies, so generally aren't so bad, but we did have one recently. That included vomiting a mouse up, which added a whole new ick factor

Flightattendant · 11/12/2009 21:08

Oh Jeesus Sorry you had me spitting out my coffee there!

Thanks - will see how she goes tomorrow and sunday. I'm not panicking as she is evidently not in great distress...only that I'm locking her out of the bedrooms, which is most unfair!!

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