Does anyone else have very sicky cats?

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My two long haired seven year old girls (indoors) seem to be unusually sicky (I.e. not just hairballs, actual sick). We get between 2 and 4 throw ups a month. They've always been like this - nothing wrong with them (we've checked) & happens irrespective of what food they're on. Anyone else?!

Yeah we have a puker. At least once a week. Sensitive stomach food helps. A bit….the other one has never puked.

I wouldn't mind except they seem to have an aversion to doing it on any of the hardwood floors! < not envy.

My cats both used to be sick a lot. They're on sensitive stomach food now and rarely vom.

Can't do sensitive tummy food sadly as one (funnily enough the slightly less vomity one) has issues with struvite stones and needs to be on a special diet (totally impossible to feed both a separate diet!).

Yes they always walk across the hardwood to get to a rug to vom on

Yes!!! What is that about!! The entire downstairs is hard flooring and yet she chooses to vomit on the tiny rug!!!

Not here but a previous cat had this problem and went on dry food only which helped. It was the Hills science plan stuff.

Is it regurgitated biscuits or the digested sick?

This is so true.....

Our boy gobbled his food which made him chuck up. An angled high bowl solved that.

Girl suffers with fur balls even on fur ball food and extra paste 🙄 when one is particularly stuck we get a few days of liquid vomit before the fur ball appears.

My girl is a puker. I've found if her wet food isn't mushed up then it comes right back up. She has no issues with biscuits so I make sure i squash her food down with the back of a fork so it's got no lumps and that seems to help.

Yes. Cheddar is. When I first got her she was sick huge amounts multiple times a day. Since swapping her to Iams vitality. It's hugely reduced. She now has 24 hours where she vomits about 3 times, every six weeks or so. I can always tell when it's brewing as she gets brown stains round her eyes. I suspect she'd intolerant to some sort of grain.

Cheddar for some reason never touches my fluffy rug, even to walk on. So fortunately it usually goes on the hard floor!

I've got raised bowls and it's also helped a lot.

2 pukers here.

I think they like carpet because they can dig their claws in and get a good retch. Also, doesn’t splash as much.

Mine definitely seek out the very small carpeted area as opposed to the swathes of crappy laminate.

Yep!
I've got a long haired cat and she's like this. It's fur mixed with sick/food most of the time but sometimes just sick. She's fine too and has always been like this.

I do try to groom her to reduce the fur she ingests but she's not keen.

She eats iams dry food too.

@WFHWF

We had this with our long-haired boy. He was vomiting every day sometimes and lost quite a lot of weight over a few months. Blood tests came back with no obvious issue. We switched him to hypoallergenic food (essentially soy protein) about two months ago as recommended by our vet and the vomiting has stopped completely. Thankfully he’s also put back on the weight he lost. We suspect this issue is a poultry intolerance.

Erk, I am currently dealing with this including weight loss with my fluffy one - but the royal canin hypoallergenic food that we hope is helping her (and has definitely made her poo better), has given her sister chronic diarrhoea so switching her back as soon the microchip feeders arrive so I can keep them both separate.

They both throw up at least once or twice a month but in last couple of months it's been once or twice a week each and it's exhausting me :(

Have you tried a slow feeding bowl?

One of my cats would vomit any time I gave her raw chicken livers ( she'd sometimes wolf them down which probably was part of the issue,).
I started to add some enzymes (pet enzymes by Dr Mercola) and a sprinkle of Fortiflora to hide the taste and smell of the enzymes and it worked a treat.
She could have her liver and keep it down ( mercifully for both of us).

Another thing solved easily was eliminating grain. Although fed good quality food ( Royal Canin) one of my (biscuit-mad) tomcats produced bloody stools...he was clearly uncomfortable but the vet didn't seem overly concerned nor had any helpful advice. Once I switched to a truly grain free biscuit (Royal Canin contained corn) he was fine in a matter of weeks.

2 vomiters here. I can always tell who the culprit is because Girlcat throws up digested food, whereas Boycat's upchuck looks like biscuits and ready to eat (which Girlcat sometimes does yuk).

My previous cats were Olympic-level hurlers....until the vet advised me to put them on the cheapest food i could find as it had fewer additives.

They were switched to Tescos Ultra Value Factory Floor Sweepings and lo! The vomiting ceased.

@Allergictoironing that was my pair!

Your boy needs to slow down or try the tilted raises bowls, something to do with how much air they swallow whist inhaling eating their food.

Girls tend to eat it as mummy instinct to prevent their kittens being found.

Even worse when we got our dog, she is an early alert system that a chuck up is imminent as she rushes out to find said cat to try and eat the vomit before it hits the carpet floor 🤮

Are any one else's complete drama queens when actually puking. Cheddar is soooo dramatic!