My cat goes through spells where she throws up her food. It's at least once a month. She'll throw up her food once a day for a couple of days, and it usually ends with her throwing up a bullet-sized amount of fur (big hairball). She's apparently trying to get that fur out of her tummy. I've given her cat lax, hairball formula food, tried all different kinds of food (I try to avoid food with by-products or hard to digest ingreds. but it doesn't seem to matter). She still has the vomiting. It's getting to be really annoying and frustrating. She's been doing it for a few years now (I think I may've even posted about it here, I can't remember), but the vet doesn't have a solution, other than she can get an x-ray of the stomach done. I should do that, but she'll go through months at a time and not have a problem. For the past 2 mons. or so, it's like every 2 weeks. She eats twice a day, and most days of the vomiting spells, she will keep down one meal. So she doesn't have a blockage or something. I don't have a lot of money to spend or time to devote to this problem. It's just frustrating.
Should I try another vet? Any tips for bad hairballs? I've even gotten her shaven before, but I didn't keep up with it since it got into wintertime. She threw up once within a month from shaving, but I think she could've had fur stored in her belly. That's the only thing I can figure because my vet seems sure that it's hairballs and that this is a normal occurence. If it is normal, I never want a cat again!!!
Maisey seems totally normal and healthy other than this. So I haven't been concerned, but it's getting to be every 2 weeks now (I'm even tracking it on my calendar.). I do have a couple hundred in savings I could spend on x-rays, but do they have to be done during the days when the cat is having the barfing episodes?
Should I try another vet? Any tips for bad hairballs? I've even gotten her shaven before, but I didn't keep up with it since it got into wintertime. She threw up once within a month from shaving, but I think she could've had fur stored in her belly. That's the only thing I can figure because my vet seems sure that it's hairballs and that this is a normal occurence. If it is normal, I never want a cat again!!!