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As some of you know, I have posted here several times as Rocky is a work in progress. Over the past 4 months we have tried limited diets, novel diets, and he's now back to Hills I/D.. He has had chronic gas within minutes after eating. I move his plate around so he doesn't gobble it down fast. He gets 1/4 of a cup of wet food every four hours, no dry at all anymore.
Nothing is working..... He has had these issues since he was a kitten and been back and forth to the vets with this and the vet cannot find anything obviously wrong.
My next suspicion is hairballs, so have been reading all over your sight on hairballs.
I am now growing grass, gave him pepcid tonight (1/4 of Pepcid AC - for the gas once a day - 30 minutes before a meal), put vaseline on his paw tonight (all 4 hours after his last meal for hairball treatment) I am now adding Pumpkin and a smidge of Miralax into his food. As well 1/4 of an egg yoke every day. Fortunately he's not a picky eater. I also read that by feeding him every 4 hours encourages his gastric system to experience feelings of hunger which causes activity in his gastric area to push out the hairballs thru gastric emptying.
I ordered Egg Yolk Lechiticin by Swanson and Slippery Elm Bark and those will arrive in a few days.
His bowel movements are now twice a day and very productive, just not seeing alot of hair in it.
He licks his lips alot and yawns constantly too which concerns me but his appetite is good. He had had dry hacking coughing several times this week.
He has a high activity level and I encourage hard play with him.
He drinks alot of water (has two water bowls - one a water fountain) and he uses the litter box quite frequently. Since I am home all day long, I make sure
I keep his litterbox ultra clean.
I just hate to see the rolling gas moving his tummy after he eats, but eventually it stops. He does seem to have some reflux too. Will try the home remedies first and then take him to the vets. Trying to go holistic before introducing harsh medicine.
Thanks for reading
Debbie
Nothing is working..... He has had these issues since he was a kitten and been back and forth to the vets with this and the vet cannot find anything obviously wrong.
My next suspicion is hairballs, so have been reading all over your sight on hairballs.
I am now growing grass, gave him pepcid tonight (1/4 of Pepcid AC - for the gas once a day - 30 minutes before a meal), put vaseline on his paw tonight (all 4 hours after his last meal for hairball treatment) I am now adding Pumpkin and a smidge of Miralax into his food. As well 1/4 of an egg yoke every day. Fortunately he's not a picky eater. I also read that by feeding him every 4 hours encourages his gastric system to experience feelings of hunger which causes activity in his gastric area to push out the hairballs thru gastric emptying.
I ordered Egg Yolk Lechiticin by Swanson and Slippery Elm Bark and those will arrive in a few days.
His bowel movements are now twice a day and very productive, just not seeing alot of hair in it.
He licks his lips alot and yawns constantly too which concerns me but his appetite is good. He had had dry hacking coughing several times this week.
He has a high activity level and I encourage hard play with him.
He drinks alot of water (has two water bowls - one a water fountain) and he uses the litter box quite frequently. Since I am home all day long, I make sure
I keep his litterbox ultra clean.
I just hate to see the rolling gas moving his tummy after he eats, but eventually it stops. He does seem to have some reflux too. Will try the home remedies first and then take him to the vets. Trying to go holistic before introducing harsh medicine.
Thanks for reading
Debbie