Frequent vomiting - food and feeding routine recommendations?

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Cat 2 has been sick most days for two weeks. Mostly hairball heavy, sometimes just sludgy. She's outwardly in rude health, as confirmed by the vet, although vet has done some bloods to be on the safe side and we are awaiting the results.

In the meantime I've been wondering about diet. We did change her food about 8 weeks ago. She was for a few years happy on Sainsbury's grain-free hypoallergenic dry food, with some Whiskas wet as well. The dry food was discontinued with a few other brands last year, due to concerns about toxicity and production never restarted. Since then, we've struggled to find a dry food that they both like. This meant they were eating a bigger proportion of Whiskas, than before, and so we continued to look for a more palatable dry food.

8 weeks ago we started them on James' Wellbeloved, which they really liked, and which led to increased dry food intake and less reliance on whiskas wet. All good. Until the puking for the last two weeks.

I guess given that it was 6 weeks between the new food and the start of the vomiting that the two could be unrelated, but wondered if anyone has any particular recommendations for pukey, fussy cats?

Also does feeding routine make a difference? We offer whiskas AM and PM (not loads - a can lasts the two cats a couple of days at least) but leave the dry food down for grazing? Could she be pigging out a bit too much?

Thanks - that was longer than I first thought it would be?

anyone?

I changed my frequent vomiter onto IAms. And it's really helped. Also having a raised food bowl really helped.

@Toddlerteaplease thank you! I shall pick up some Iams and see how we get on.

We had a similar situation which took a while to solve. I tried lots of different dry and wet foods but found that our cat was unable to digest dry food and it was this that was making her sick. Since changing her to a wet food only diet we have had no problems. Is there a reason why your cat needs only dry food?

she's never been dry food only, but for most of her time with us has eaten a greater ratio of dry:wet. She's always had some Whiskas wet. On purely practical grounds I like them to have access to dry food I can leave down, so they're not clamouring for food. But if we fail to solve this issue I will consider either switching her fully, or at least offering much less dry food.

I cant give my pukey cat too many biscuits. She's tiny and I think they just swell too much in her stomach. I was suprised to see how big they get when wet.

I suspect Cheddar has an intolerance to a cereal of some sort. I think possibly maize. But not sure..

thank you all.
both cats seemed very taken with the new food, and definitely ate more of it than the previous one. I wonder if it's just too delicious and she's eating more than she can tolerate? She is the one who tends towards greediness. I'll go to Pets at Home tonight and try one of the sensitive gut foods. I'll also start offering wet food more often.

Annoying we're away for a couple of nights next week, so we and the neighbour will have to leave plenty of dry out for grazing, but when we're back I will start monitoring how I put out, rather than just topping the bowl up. It's definitely complicated by having two though - very hard to stop them from snarfing each other's meals.

Mine has Royal Canine gastrointestinal wet and dry food. He still pukes occasionally but that's more so if he's being a pig and just snorts it up, or has snuck something off my plate without me realising. The best half of my steak, left me the fatty part

Have you thought of getting microchip feeders? I use them for my two because one is very greedy and will eat absolutely anything. If we're going out for the day, I also use a timed feeder for the greedy cat, otherwise she'll eat all her food for the day in one sitting and then throw it up.