Cat being sick

myteeduck

Hi all

I have a cat. She will be 12 this year and I got her when she was 9 almost 10. Since I got her, she throws up almost weekly. It went on for about a year, nearly always on a Sunday. Then we had a bit of time when there was barely anything - she was eating a cat food which she seemed to like and we cut her portions down. She is a small cat and barely has any teeth (apparently her previous owner didn't keep up with her dental hygiene so when they took her for re homing, she ended up loosing most of her teeth).

She also had a flea allergy for the time that she wasn't being sick which took almost 12 months to sort. There was a few months later and then the sickness started again. Because the sickness was more frequent and coincided with her feeding, so we thought the food was too rich for her and changed it.

She is still being sick, but its not as frequent, but she keeps eating grass in order to be sick. She still only ever throws up on a Sunday.

I'm reluctant to take her to the vets as she is fine in every other sense, weight is fine, she is wormed and fleaded, and her toilet habits haven't changed. She is not insured and when she had her flea allergy, they couldn't help and i ended up sorting this myself with tea tree spray.

Has anyone ever come across anything similar, if so what did you do?

pinkteapot

I'm intrigued by the regularity of it being on a Sunday. Is anything about her routine different on a Saturday/Sunday before the throwing up. Could a neighbour who is home at a weekend be giving her something to eat that disagrees with her? As an experiment, could you keep her in for a week (including a weekend) to see if it stops it (if she'll tolerate staying in).

myteeduck

Hi Pinkteapot,

She doesn't go out much, she likes the freedom of being able to sit on the window ledge and look out, and she rarely ventures further. Going to eat the grass is about as far as she will go.

I work Monday to Friday all day and she is used to being home alone at that time. Saturdays, I go out around 1pm and the majority of the time, i'm home around tea time. Sundays are regular, I am home all morning until around 3pm, but she throws up usually around lunchtime. Usually around when I open the window for her to eat the grass. Last Sunday, I saw her eating the grass, and watched her, but she never threw up....

I'd keep her in, but she meows like crazy and I open the window for her to sit there, but by doing that, I cant stop her going for a 5 minute wander, unless I watch her and see where she goes.

rita-rabbit

regular vomiting with the cat should be examined by vet.

tea tree oil for fleas? Allergic reaction can be treated with Pirotin.

Haffiana

Yes, I would be wary of any essential oil with a cat. Tea tree can cause really comprehensive (I mean wide-group) allergies in humans, and cats are far more sensitive.

Arthog

When my cat is sick, it seems to be mostly fur, so I wonder if that is how they rid themselves of it - fur ball. I brush her almost daily and use a Furminator comb and that definitely helps. She is half Persian so quite long fur, and she is 18.
She is indoors most of the time now so I'm not sure if this way of getting rid of fur has always happened when needed, outdoors.

calicocat

My cat does this quite regularly. She is an indoor cat when i'm not in, and to be fair doesn't have much interest in going out much. I think this means they do end up with more fur balls.

Mine goes out regularly to chew on grass to help with this.

Is the cat actually being sick, or throwing up fur/bile/ food thrown down too quick..?


I've always found cats to be chucking up something or other every now and again....seems to be what cats do and i've had them since I was 5.

My current one is old now, but had clean bill of health from the vets recently. Always best to get them checked out.

Person_one

Why are you reluctant to go the vet? Am I missing something?

HappyMJ

Person_one wrote: »

Why are you reluctant to go the vet? Am I missing something?

All I'm thinking is that vet's cost money.

What does a consultation cost? £30.... You would pay that whether or not you had insurance. It's usually less than the excess.

There is no need to actually take any of the medications the vet offers. You can just go there for a chat, check temperature, listen to heart, ears clean, eyes look good, coat in good condition, weight is good etc... Some owners will miss the gradual decline in the condition of a cat but the vet will notice a difference compared to other perfectly healthy cats and offer advice.

If the vet offers further tests they can be declined. You could just take on board the advice the vet makes and then think about it.

myteeduck

Hi all,

The tea tree for the flea allergy was a special spray, designed for dogs and cats, I didn't use neat tea tree oil.

I used this:


I am reluctant to go to the vet as there is no pattern, it happens every now and then. She dint throw up on Sunday as per her usual day, but she was retching this morning. She has not been out for the last few days, but I wouldn't be surprised if I go home to a vomit pile.

The vet will charge me £40+ for the consultation, and then want to do all sorts of tests, costing more money.

When she had the flea allergy, they wanted to perform surgery to remove a scab!! I was gobsmacked when it fell off a week after cancelling the operation.

The spray helped and as you can see it cost me less than £5 and was amazing. The vets wanted to do all sorts of skin scrapes etc, so in effect unless I know the cause and I cant treat it myself, I don't want to subject her to the vet.

x

myteeduck

if you right click over the broken picture, it will take you to an image of the spray.