cat eating too fast then being sick

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My cat has done this a few times and i was just wanting to know if there is anything i can do to stop him?
He isnt a greedy cat, we give him 2-3 pouches a day and his bowl always has biscuits in. he only does this with the pouches not with biscuits. he is sick within a few minutes of finishing eating.

maybe pouches are too rich for him?

just give dry food - less of a smell

Does he suffer from hairballs? Sometimes these can block the passage of the food so it has nowhere to go. But ruling that out (and rich food, illness etc), vomiting cats are quite common - I remember a thread on here a few months ago where we all compared stories of our bulimic moggies! One of mine stuffs herself silly and then throws up right next to the food bowl so she can go straight back and eat more. Or she'll jump down and upchuck on the floor in front of the dog, who promptly eats it There's no reason for it, and she acts like it's a perfectly normal thing to do!

Three pouches plus dry food seems like a lot for one cat to eat - what size is he? My two 5.5kg cats get 100g of dry food between them (measured out each morning, left out all day), and they share an 80g pouch of wet food at night. First thing I would do is cut him down a bit, and then to stop him wolfing it down I would only give him a little bit of his pouch at a time - wait for him to finish it and then give a bit more, so he can't inhale it. The other thing you can do is change his bowl for a dinner plate, so it spreads around when he's eating it and is harder to pick up.

3 pouches a day sounds like a huge amount?

he usually only gets a third pouch when hes brought the last pouch up on my carpet He doesnt really eat many biscuits (think hes too lazy to crunch)

Thanks for your help, hes on dry food only for the next few days

why dont you give him his dinner in several small portions. this way he cant eat too fast.
i had a friend who put hot water on th dogs buscuits so it was too hot to scoff straight down. you could heat the cats food, so he can only eat it as it cools down. you dont want it to be so hot it burns, but unpleasantly hot