Reducing the amount of cat sick a cat sicks up
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Our cat regularly eats too much in one go and then pukes up most of it a few minutes later. Today she did it twice, and over the course of her tenancy has trashed carpets, rugs and a fabric sofa that we bought before cats were even on our mind (let alone children).
Apart from drowning the little f
ker in the canal, is there anything we can do to try to reduce this? She's only a wee cat, 3.8kg I think, so two sachets a day supplemented with dried food (the scarf & barf can happen with either of them), and the vet reckoned her small stomach was creating the situation because she only knows she's eaten too much once she's finished eating. On days when she's not sick she'll just be grazing on food and sometimes there's still bits of morning food left in the evening.
She mainly eats some brand of Purina for wet food, is it worth trying something else? Tried to stay away from the Felix and Whiskas stuff because they tend not to be as healthy (and make their sts absolutely stink) and we've tried a lot of other food she won't really touch, but willing to try anything now.
Apart from drowning the little f
ker in the canal, is there anything we can do to try to reduce this? She's only a wee cat, 3.8kg I think, so two sachets a day supplemented with dried food (the scarf & barf can happen with either of them), and the vet reckoned her small stomach was creating the situation because she only knows she's eaten too much once she's finished eating. On days when she's not sick she'll just be grazing on food and sometimes there's still bits of morning food left in the evening.She mainly eats some brand of Purina for wet food, is it worth trying something else? Tried to stay away from the Felix and Whiskas stuff because they tend not to be as healthy (and make their s
ts absolutely stink) and we've tried a lot of other food she won't really touch, but willing to try anything now.
Sounds like you're overfeeding if you give her two full sachets per day. Our two share half a sachet per meal with 4-5 biscuits of dry food. Big cat is 6kg and little one (older) is only 2.5kg. The little one has a very small stomach and does have bouts of puking so very small meals are required. We've switched them to cheap Lidl food and she's been much better. That said one big contributor is her drinking rain/standing water outside. When its dry she's rarely sick now, when we've had rainfall she starts again. Does yours go out ?
We always had guidance for three sachets for a 4 kg cat with no dry food, but maybe that’s too much. I’ll try half a sachet morning and a half evening with some dry and see how she goes. Still doesn’t stop her choking up on grass though, and still puked up half a sachet this morning . :-/
Edited by ScotHill on Thursday 12th October 19:11
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