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I have a cat Pepsi. He turned 9 now in March. He is peeing, he is pooping solids, he has good appetite, he loves to play, he loves cuddles (when he wants them), and also love belly rubs.
So from all that everything is fine, he is fine.
But then also, I questione everything. I do have some trauma, I lost a cat (my soulcat Max) some years back, and I feel I missed signs that might have made me take him to the vet sooner, and I would still have him with me. So I have trauma, where I am now super watchfull, maybe a bit too much. Which is why I feel I might just be feeling anxious and overthinking.
Pepsi has always had a problem with hairballs, ever since he was a kitten. He does not seem bothered by them. Might show some small signs of discomfort a bit before he throws up, but then immidiatly after he is fine.
Last summer is really when this all started; he has TR, not sure if its called that in english; Tooth reabsorption, tooth disease. And june 2023 he needed to have 1 tooth pulled. After surgary we had a 1 week checkup, and he has ripped his stitches even with him only getting wet food, and this put us on a pure wet food diet for 2-3 months. He is not too fond of eating wet food, loves the sauce, but for actually eating he prefers his dry kibble. So it was a rough few months, he lost a fair bit of weight, but also I did notice no hairballs like he would usually have.
Before they pulled his tooth, they took some blood samples, and his kidney values have gone up. They are still within the normal range, but they have gone up, so the vet wanted me to move him over onto «Early Renal» food. We started with some wet food of this (and he was fine eating that this time), but when we went back to dry food once his gum was healed we first went back to Satiety that he was on as to not throw away food, and then moved him over to Early Renal dry kibble. When we made the change to Dry Early Renal, he suddenly started having way more hair balls than he has ever had before. This was late autumn/early winter. And then on this side of the year he started having some … breathing problems. Knowing he struggles with hairballs, it could also just be irritation, and after two such attacks a hairball did come up. It could remind of what I have seen cats having a asthma attack, or just wheezing trying to get an hair ball up.
Anyways, when a hairball did come up I figured that was it. And then he had a third attack. This is when I contacted the vet. I took him in, the vet was able to provoke such an attack, by lightly squeezing his throath. Given how he was otherwise very fine, eating, drinking, using the litterbox and all they thought it too drastic to put him out to go down with a camera. I did mentione his problems with a whole lot more hairballs than usual, and the vet concluded with possible just sore throath.
I was sent home with some painkillers/anti inflammatory meds to give for a week with food. Metacam if that is a name used in other countries. He was also placed back on a wet food only diet, Early Renal.
I might have changed it over too drastic, or … after some days he ended up with diarreah. But even with taking steps with probiotics, he kept having diarreah. It did seem like it was getting better then it didn’t. So I contacted the vet again, asked of its possible his whole system is angry right now, and if we could try and have him on some Gastrointestinal food, to calm everything down.
We did do that. He was on that for 2 weeks, no more problems with breathing, no diarreah, he seemed super fine. And this is where things went bad again. The plan was to get him over onto Early Renal again. Given his hair ball problems with Royal Canin, we tried Purina this time. So I started to add a little. Mixing up gastro and early renal dry kibble. In a small dosage, for about 1 week. And he starts to throw up. Also worth mentioning, he turned 9 and got a birthday present on the 12th, some new snacks that I also started giving in this same week.
I stopped the early renal on last friday, but he still threw up on saturday and monday. I did remember that he had gotten these new treats as I was talking with the vet on tuesday, whicj I had given him as well these days.
That was tuesday this week that I walked to the vet. I was told again; its very drastic to put a 9 year old cat out for camera down to his stomach, x-ray and all the stuff, when he is fine. He is eating, he is drinking. Pooping about once a day, sometimes twice like normal, he pees normally. He plays and has a good appetite. And I very much agree that it is too much to put him through such a procedure just because I feel anxious.
We both did say it is very possible he is reacting to the early renal food, and also possibly having some kind of food intolerance given the new treats.
There has been 1 throw up since tuesday, but that was a hairball, so my gut don’t feel that is the same «kind» of throw up as the others he had last week. I don’t know.
What I am also reacting to is that he has found a new favourite place to sleep. Not unusual for that to happen, but the olace he has choosen is triggering me. He is sleeping/relaxing, and not crouhing together and hiding. And that is under the sofa. Reason this upsets me is that the cat I lost, Max, was hiding under the sofa right before, so its triggering to see him under there when there has been all this stuff happening.
I am trying to remain calm, since he is very much fine. But its very hard when I just feel anxious. My other cat Max, he was also fine I thought, and then he wasn’t.
Besides lying under the sofa, I am also overthinking him licking his mouth. I know this is a sign of nausea. But I also know from having seen him do it before throwing up that its not just 1 time, its many rapid lickings. So I am trying to tell myself to remain calm when I see him getting up from sleeping, jumping down from the cat tree where is was lying, and then doing a lick. My brain is working overdrive, analysing his every behaviour, and its not good.
So I have trauma clouding my vision, and I just wanted to hear from people who might have some experience with food intolerance in cats.
Pepsi is a very picky eater, he is not very fond of the Gastriintestinal dry kibble he is getting right now. I have continued on giving some wet food, and he does not seem to react badly to it. Its with fish, and I read often its beef that is a problem with food intolerance.
My vet carries Royal Canin and Purina. And those two brands are the ones I have tried. The vet did mentione that there are other brands to try. I said I was worried about him needing to be on early renal, but him seemingly having bad reactions to both those brands.
Anyways, long post from a anixous cat mum. Pepsi is currenly lying, sleeping, inbetween my feet in the sofa, trying to tell me that he really is fine, and that I need to calm down.
So from all that everything is fine, he is fine.
But then also, I questione everything. I do have some trauma, I lost a cat (my soulcat Max) some years back, and I feel I missed signs that might have made me take him to the vet sooner, and I would still have him with me. So I have trauma, where I am now super watchfull, maybe a bit too much. Which is why I feel I might just be feeling anxious and overthinking.
Pepsi has always had a problem with hairballs, ever since he was a kitten. He does not seem bothered by them. Might show some small signs of discomfort a bit before he throws up, but then immidiatly after he is fine.
Last summer is really when this all started; he has TR, not sure if its called that in english; Tooth reabsorption, tooth disease. And june 2023 he needed to have 1 tooth pulled. After surgary we had a 1 week checkup, and he has ripped his stitches even with him only getting wet food, and this put us on a pure wet food diet for 2-3 months. He is not too fond of eating wet food, loves the sauce, but for actually eating he prefers his dry kibble. So it was a rough few months, he lost a fair bit of weight, but also I did notice no hairballs like he would usually have.
Before they pulled his tooth, they took some blood samples, and his kidney values have gone up. They are still within the normal range, but they have gone up, so the vet wanted me to move him over onto «Early Renal» food. We started with some wet food of this (and he was fine eating that this time), but when we went back to dry food once his gum was healed we first went back to Satiety that he was on as to not throw away food, and then moved him over to Early Renal dry kibble. When we made the change to Dry Early Renal, he suddenly started having way more hair balls than he has ever had before. This was late autumn/early winter. And then on this side of the year he started having some … breathing problems. Knowing he struggles with hairballs, it could also just be irritation, and after two such attacks a hairball did come up. It could remind of what I have seen cats having a asthma attack, or just wheezing trying to get an hair ball up.
Anyways, when a hairball did come up I figured that was it. And then he had a third attack. This is when I contacted the vet. I took him in, the vet was able to provoke such an attack, by lightly squeezing his throath. Given how he was otherwise very fine, eating, drinking, using the litterbox and all they thought it too drastic to put him out to go down with a camera. I did mentione his problems with a whole lot more hairballs than usual, and the vet concluded with possible just sore throath.
I was sent home with some painkillers/anti inflammatory meds to give for a week with food. Metacam if that is a name used in other countries. He was also placed back on a wet food only diet, Early Renal.
I might have changed it over too drastic, or … after some days he ended up with diarreah. But even with taking steps with probiotics, he kept having diarreah. It did seem like it was getting better then it didn’t. So I contacted the vet again, asked of its possible his whole system is angry right now, and if we could try and have him on some Gastrointestinal food, to calm everything down.
We did do that. He was on that for 2 weeks, no more problems with breathing, no diarreah, he seemed super fine. And this is where things went bad again. The plan was to get him over onto Early Renal again. Given his hair ball problems with Royal Canin, we tried Purina this time. So I started to add a little. Mixing up gastro and early renal dry kibble. In a small dosage, for about 1 week. And he starts to throw up. Also worth mentioning, he turned 9 and got a birthday present on the 12th, some new snacks that I also started giving in this same week.
I stopped the early renal on last friday, but he still threw up on saturday and monday. I did remember that he had gotten these new treats as I was talking with the vet on tuesday, whicj I had given him as well these days.
That was tuesday this week that I walked to the vet. I was told again; its very drastic to put a 9 year old cat out for camera down to his stomach, x-ray and all the stuff, when he is fine. He is eating, he is drinking. Pooping about once a day, sometimes twice like normal, he pees normally. He plays and has a good appetite. And I very much agree that it is too much to put him through such a procedure just because I feel anxious.
We both did say it is very possible he is reacting to the early renal food, and also possibly having some kind of food intolerance given the new treats.
There has been 1 throw up since tuesday, but that was a hairball, so my gut don’t feel that is the same «kind» of throw up as the others he had last week. I don’t know.
What I am also reacting to is that he has found a new favourite place to sleep. Not unusual for that to happen, but the olace he has choosen is triggering me. He is sleeping/relaxing, and not crouhing together and hiding. And that is under the sofa. Reason this upsets me is that the cat I lost, Max, was hiding under the sofa right before, so its triggering to see him under there when there has been all this stuff happening.
I am trying to remain calm, since he is very much fine. But its very hard when I just feel anxious. My other cat Max, he was also fine I thought, and then he wasn’t.
Besides lying under the sofa, I am also overthinking him licking his mouth. I know this is a sign of nausea. But I also know from having seen him do it before throwing up that its not just 1 time, its many rapid lickings. So I am trying to tell myself to remain calm when I see him getting up from sleeping, jumping down from the cat tree where is was lying, and then doing a lick. My brain is working overdrive, analysing his every behaviour, and its not good.
So I have trauma clouding my vision, and I just wanted to hear from people who might have some experience with food intolerance in cats.
Pepsi is a very picky eater, he is not very fond of the Gastriintestinal dry kibble he is getting right now. I have continued on giving some wet food, and he does not seem to react badly to it. Its with fish, and I read often its beef that is a problem with food intolerance.
My vet carries Royal Canin and Purina. And those two brands are the ones I have tried. The vet did mentione that there are other brands to try. I said I was worried about him needing to be on early renal, but him seemingly having bad reactions to both those brands.
Anyways, long post from a anixous cat mum. Pepsi is currenly lying, sleeping, inbetween my feet in the sofa, trying to tell me that he really is fine, and that I need to calm down.