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Hi my cats have been on dry food their whole lives and the past few years they have been throwing up more and more. Ive had them on every dry food brand out there, im on my last brand, which is Natural balance (van patten) pea and duck no grain formula and now after a month of doing fine they are throwing up again.
Its funny because brands that didn't make them throw up gave them diarhea instead, but at least that's in the box, vomit they do anywhere, on the rug, sofa, my sons teddy bear even. They are indoor cats only, four of them are pedigree persians and one is an obese DSH that i believe has IBS, she usually has diarhea/soft stools with a trace of blood at the end.
The vet said they just have sensative stomaches, but all five of them? The sensitive stomache foods stopped the vomiting but gave them the runs instead (never went away even after 6 weeks of use)
So now im at my last straw, canned food, its the only thing left that i didn't try. Do you think adding canned to their diet will help?
The reason ive been avoiding canned is because feeding canned foods only to five cats is expensive, so i can only get cheaper brands. How many cans do i need to put out daily for five cats? The brand i was looking at was either friskies or 9 lives because they are the most affordable.
Dry food cost me around 30 dollars every three to four weeks, id like to stick within that price range for wet foods.
All their lives they have been free feeding dry food, its always out 24/7, could that be the problem? are they just over eating?
Sometimes its hair balls which is fine they are nice and dry and normal, but most of the time its wet vomit with some bits of food and sometimes either all yellow or all white foam.
The have been tested for various cat diseases all neg, they did go through giardia when they were kittens that was pretty hard to get rid of but they are neg now. Cats ages are 3, 5, 5, 8, 11. The three year old never had giaria, we got him way after the other cats were cured. He is a persian.
Brands of dry they have been on are...
science diet sensative, caused diarhea
authority sensative, terrible diarhea but stopped the vomiting
iams (origional and hairball) did good for a year, then diarhea and vomiting
blue buffalo wilderness, they did great on this for 6 months then they started vomiting like all the rest of the foods
van patten natural balance, vomiting
solid gold, they just got really skinny on this one and looked sickly so i took them off of it
ive even tried a few store bought cheapy brands that gave them either diarhea of vomiting or both.
nutro max, green bag with stripes, they were fine on for a year then they started vomiting bad from it, i think they changed the formula, because it was off the shelves for awhile then came back and made them sick.
the only dry i didnt try is royal canin
and whats worse is that what works for one cats messes up another..i cant reach a balance
Its funny because brands that didn't make them throw up gave them diarhea instead, but at least that's in the box, vomit they do anywhere, on the rug, sofa, my sons teddy bear even. They are indoor cats only, four of them are pedigree persians and one is an obese DSH that i believe has IBS, she usually has diarhea/soft stools with a trace of blood at the end.
The vet said they just have sensative stomaches, but all five of them? The sensitive stomache foods stopped the vomiting but gave them the runs instead (never went away even after 6 weeks of use)
So now im at my last straw, canned food, its the only thing left that i didn't try. Do you think adding canned to their diet will help?
The reason ive been avoiding canned is because feeding canned foods only to five cats is expensive, so i can only get cheaper brands. How many cans do i need to put out daily for five cats? The brand i was looking at was either friskies or 9 lives because they are the most affordable.
Dry food cost me around 30 dollars every three to four weeks, id like to stick within that price range for wet foods.
All their lives they have been free feeding dry food, its always out 24/7, could that be the problem? are they just over eating?
Sometimes its hair balls which is fine they are nice and dry and normal, but most of the time its wet vomit with some bits of food and sometimes either all yellow or all white foam.
The have been tested for various cat diseases all neg, they did go through giardia when they were kittens that was pretty hard to get rid of but they are neg now. Cats ages are 3, 5, 5, 8, 11. The three year old never had giaria, we got him way after the other cats were cured. He is a persian.
Brands of dry they have been on are...
science diet sensative, caused diarhea
authority sensative, terrible diarhea but stopped the vomiting
iams (origional and hairball) did good for a year, then diarhea and vomiting
blue buffalo wilderness, they did great on this for 6 months then they started vomiting like all the rest of the foods
van patten natural balance, vomiting
solid gold, they just got really skinny on this one and looked sickly so i took them off of it
ive even tried a few store bought cheapy brands that gave them either diarhea of vomiting or both.
nutro max, green bag with stripes, they were fine on for a year then they started vomiting bad from it, i think they changed the formula, because it was off the shelves for awhile then came back and made them sick.
the only dry i didnt try is royal canin
and whats worse is that what works for one cats messes up another..i cant reach a balance