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Cat keeps being sick!

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  • Glad to hear she's OK - my wee girl does this now & then, usually when she's eaten too quickly or it's often followed a couple of days later by a hairball (YUK)!
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    Glad puss is ok. Mine seems to up-chuck her biscuits at times when she's wolfed them too quickly. She sometimes does the same with her wet food (when she's been out for a while and comes in hungry) and incidentally it is always whiskas she throws up on (she has whiskas and felix depending on what's on offer). Years ago my aunt had a cat and was told not to feed him whiskas as some cats found it too rich - they've prob changed the recipie now though.

    Hope her tummy settles with the Senior food - I guess it's like people getting older and not being able to eat as much/the same as they could when they were younger x
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  • morg_monster
    morg_monster Posts: 2,392 Forumite
    Just wanted to add, our cat vomited occasionally - maybe on average once a week - not "proper" sick, more of a clear liquid, occasionally with whole biscuits in. When we did see her puke, it wasn't the usual OTT retching, bellows action that cats usually do, but almost a huge dribble!

    As it wasn't that often, and she was fine in herself, we didn't worry about it, but after a few months of it did go to the vets. He got it right first time - she had a chronic sore throat and the biscuits she had for breakfast (applaws) were irritating her throat and esophagus, stopping the throat healing and making her gag and then puke - it wasn't related to her stomach at all, which is why it wasn't the usual looking half-digested food puke. He gave her antibiotics and antiinflammatories and we put the cats on a wet food only diet for a month, no more puke/dribble. We did reintroduce biscuits but after a month she very occasionally pukes again in the same way. So we are back on 100% wet again.

    Just something to bear in mind and possibly try out if she will eat wet food??
  • Flower08
    Flower08 Posts: 4,771 Forumite
    Just wanted to add, our cat vomited occasionally - maybe on average once a week - not "proper" sick, more of a clear liquid, occasionally with whole biscuits in. When we did see her puke, it wasn't the usual OTT retching, bellows action that cats usually do, but almost a huge dribble!

    As it wasn't that often, and she was fine in herself, we didn't worry about it, but after a few months of it did go to the vets. He got it right first time - she had a chronic sore throat and the biscuits she had for breakfast (applaws) were irritating her throat and esophagus, stopping the throat healing and making her gag and then puke - it wasn't related to her stomach at all, which is why it wasn't the usual looking half-digested food puke. He gave her antibiotics and antiinflammatories and we put the cats on a wet food only diet for a month, no more puke/dribble. We did reintroduce biscuits but after a month she very occasionally pukes again in the same way. So we are back on 100% wet again.

    Just something to bear in mind and possibly try out if she will eat wet food??

    Thanks for that, something to bear in mind. She would definitely eat just wet food!! I am sure she could quite happily go without eating any biscuits at all. It does only seem to be when she eats the biscuits though, so perhaps trying her for a while on just wet food would be a good idea.
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  • suziecute
    suziecute Posts: 15 Forumite
    Glad i've seen this, this has been happening to mine recently, so i'm not to worried now.

    Thanks everyone.

    P.S. Glad she's ok
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