my cat has been vomiting for about 3 weeks. he's not sick.

[catmother]

he runs around and plays and wants to eat but he keeps vomiting. i tried hairball medicine, 2 homeopathic remedies, natural food. right now i have him on a fast. i read that sometimes the digestive system needs a rest and after the fast to feed him a combination of rice and chicken which i'm not sure he'll eat.

anyone have this problem? any suggestions?

[henslee]

1. Vomiting for three weeks sounds like your cat is sick. See a vet.

Get a blod test. Dont mess around.

[Orsino]

2. See a vet.

Doesn't sound related to hairballs at all. He may need real medicine.

[catmother]

7. the problem is he's very skiddish. i adopted him when he was

4. he was brought to the humane society with an upper respiratory infection. had to be in foster care until he got well. so from the cage at the foster home he went into a cage at Petsmart. by the time i adopted him his spirit was broken. he was in a cage for months. he still runs under the bed if someone strange comes into the house. when we moved he layed his head down on my lap in the car. i thought he had died. fortunately he had not. taking him to the vet might cause a heart attack. he's 11 now. i'm trying to get hold of a mobile vet.

[Kathleen04]

3. My cat went through a pukey stage

she got over it..I can't think of anything we changed except we switched from dry food to wet. That said, I would take your cat in to the vet just in case, you wouldn't want to risk anything.

[Richard Steele]

4. 3 weeks? That's really not OK.

I suggest you get to a Vet, pronto!

[khashka]

5. henslee is right - see a vet

However? Indoor/Outdoor? Do have houseplants he might be chewing on? They do eat plants and often puke afterwards. No biggie, just a mess to clean up.

Still.... it doesn't sound like what you are saying. If that were the case you would have noticed a long time ago.

See a vet.


Khash.

[OhioBlue]

6. I would get your cat checked out by a Vet

other suggestions - I think changing a pet's food a lot can cause digestive problems.
Make sure you don't have anything that the cat is eating/drinking in the house that you don't know about. My cat drank dishwater and threw up from it.
My cat also threw up a lot after she had kittens and was "cleaning up" after them.

Hope Kitty gets better!!

[catmother]

8. thanks. he's an indoor cat and i don't have plants around. i'm

very careful about that. i only tried changing the food once. actually when it first started. i got him a food that's all natural $1.25 can, but he threw that up too. his nose is wet and his eyes are clear and he's purring. right now he wants to eat but i'm trying this fast thing.

[OhioBlue]

11. I'm not sure but I think even if you change it to

something like all natural that is good for them, they may still need to adjust to it.

Also - try to think about anything else you might have changed in the last couple of weeks that could be contributing - "Powder Fresh" on the carpet, or something like that.

[AirmensMom]

9. Take him to a vet for a blood test.

If you're feeding dry, throw it out and start on canned food. Rice isn't good for cats, so ditch that idea. Yeah, I know they put it in cat food, but that's so they can sell you the rice and charge meat prices. He could be allergic to some of the ingredients in commercial cat food.

Don't let him fast for more than 2 days or you risk getting him seriously ill.

Good luck.:hug:

[catmother]

10. i'm only fasting him for 6-12 hours. he doesn't really eat dry

food. i leave it out for them just in case i'm not home and it's good dry. it's Iams, but like i said he's not really a dry food eater.

[AirmensMom]

12. There ain't no such thing as a "good dry."

Read www.catinfo.org to find out why. He may be eating the dry when you're not looking.

At any rate, we have had a lot of trouble with our Abys, and it was all diet related. They couldn't tolerate the grains and veggies in any of the cat foods. The vet put them on a prescription diet and all four cats, even the not-Abys, started to vomit. We feed raw now (and have a new vet) and have no health problems, but that's a step most people aren't willing to take.

[catmother]

18. i have an aby too. i had this problem with him when he was

about 8 months old. i called the breeder and she gave me a homeopathic remedy. it did the trick. when jesse (the cat i'm talking about) starting vomiting i e-mailed her and told her his weight and she gave me the formula. however it did not work with him.

what are you feeding them raw? i'm up for all suggestions and money is no problem.

[AirmensMom]

23. Our kitten had problems from the time he was 3 months old.

His mother had trouble later on.

We get raw ground whole rabbit (with bones and organs, minus the fur and intestines) from www.hare-today.com. Then we add taurine, B complex, and water in the same proportions given on http://www.catinfo.org/makingcatfood.htm. We add half the vitamin E and Wild Salmon Oil. Other people buy a good grinder and grind organic game hens or chickens. We used to grind our own rabbit, but that's pretty expensive to buy from a grocery store.

www.hare-today.com is in PA, so the shipping would be expensive. There's a place in WA, www.wholefoods4pets.com. You could check both and see which one works better for you, as far as the total price goes.

Which homeopathic remedy did you use? Our current vet uses homeopathic remedies. He gave us a single remedy once last year when one of our kitties was vomiting at 4:00 AM. Apparently, the time of day meant something. We gave him a tiny white ball, dissolved in liquid, and that was the end of the 4:00 AM vomiting. It was pretty cool!

Good luck with Jesse. Feel free to PM me. :hug:

[Beaverhausen]

13. Take him to the vet. You can also try baby food

the jarred baby foods- chicken and turkey - see if he keeps that down.

But really, take him to the vet.

[ZombieNixon]

14. My cat's been vomiting for 5 years. He's not sick, either.

He just likes to eat things he shouldn't. A good puke half an hour later and it's like it never happened.

[Skittles]

26. 8 years here......my Clancy is a gobbler

he gobbles his food and inevitably sometimes he ralphs

[ZombieNixon]

27. Ours probably had many long years of vomiting before he found us...

we don't know how old he is, only that he showed up on our doorstep the say Idiot McCokespoon got coronated the first time. My dad wanted to name him George. My mom wanted to hit my dad. We named him Yoda. :shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Check this out...

Maybe your kitty needs a raw diet...
http://www.catnutrition.org/foodmaking.html

[AirmensMom]

24. Wow, Goddess!

That's the same site referred to in www.catinfo.org that I've been posting in just about every pet post I write. The authors of the two sites are friends and very knowledgeable about cat nutrition. Their information saved my kitty's life last year. We're having great results with raw food.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I think I must have read one of your posts

I didn't remember the site; but I remembered a discussion about raw diet for kitties here on DU; so this was the site that came up first on my google search.

My babies are getting up there...14 years old in June. One of them seems to have a lot of digestive trouble, so I've been thinking about changing their diet.

Thanks for your info! :yourock:

[AirmensMom]

29. Good for you!

I feel like a walking commercial. But my precious Satchmo was close to death this time last year and he's the picture of health now. His mom, Sabrina, had been overweight. So we weren't as worried when she lost weight. But then they both got dangerously thin.

I've posted the info on the Pets group a few times, but it's mostly ignored. There's a vet over there who advocates dry food. :scared:

[Extend a Hand]

16. I changed my cat's food

and it improved...she puked every day when I gave her the purina 'coated with the taste of milk' stuff

[SaveElmer]

17. Could be a food allergy...

Our dog went through a period of that...he is on a prescription dog food now and has had no further problems!! See your vet, if they find nothing physically wrong, they will try this next!

[flvegan]

19. "Keeps vomiting" is vague.

How often? When? What is being vomited up? What kind of kitty?

A trip to the vet might well be a good idea just to get some bloodwork done and see what's up. If it's a once a day upchuck, it might just be overgrooming and the resultant hairball. Or, it could be a food allergy, stomach disorder, etc, etc.

[Madrone]

20. It may not be as simple as you think -

I have 2 cats that really started amping up their puke production. #1 cat ended up being diagnosed w/ kidney failure and #2 cat w/ diabetes some months after that. It can definitely be a sign something is really wrong.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

21. Our Simba is a chronic barfer.

The vet in Pittsburgh (our prior home) did x-rays and said he has thickened intestinal loops, which could mean lymphoma or could mean inflammatory bowel disease. Without a biopsy, she couldn't say for certain. Here in Texas the new vet has seen Simba once and said the same thing. He goes through spells where he does act sick, but then comes out of it.

If you've changed your cat's food, you should mix the old food with the new so as not to upset his stomach with a drastic change.

I would take your kitty to the vet and see if abdominal x-rays are in order, as well as blood work to rule out thyroid disease, diabetes, cancer and kidney disease.

Good luck, and keep us posted!

[Catfight]

22. My cat did this and had a serious problem called fatty liver disease.

He couldn't keep food down, then he didn't want to eat, then he didn't drink water...I waited three days because I know he has a avaricious appetite, so I KNEW something wasn't right. Turns out, it's also a way a cat tells you it's depressed and you're not spending enough time with it. Read about feline fatty liver disease. The only cure is to FORCE feed your cat until they keep the food down. DO NOT fast!!! Try wet foods, anything, but get the cat to eat.

[Minnesota Libra]

28. BEST ADVICE - - - - get kitty to a VET quckly nt

[MidwestMomma]

30. I would definitely see a vet

It could be hyperthyroid disease. My 12 year old cat was diagnosed with that last year. She threw up alot but I contributed it to hairballs. The reason for the throwing up wasn't the thyroid disease but how it affected her liver. Cat's liver's are very sensitive from what I've learned. The vet will probably want to do a liver function test.

I have a skittish kitty too. It takes the vet and an assistant and me just to draw blood. Best wishes. Let us know what you find out

[davidinalameda]

31. locking

please contact a professional for advice with any medical issue