Dry food puke

Man - thought I had this under control. One of the cats is horking up dry... regularly now for the last 3-4 weeks. They are on Taste of the Wild.

I suspect my usual puker - Tex - though I haven't caught him in the act. Why all of a sudden? Anyone have any ideas?

eating too fast ...

- I was afraid of that. He is a gobbler. I think I am going to replace any and all dry bowls he has access to with stainless steel "speed bump" bowls. Tired of cleaning up the barf.

I have 2 ping pong balls in Genevers dry food bowl, even though I don't think she's really eating too fast. It's just become habit now.. and since I bought a 12 pack from Target, I have a few more balls in her turbo scratcher..

Strange that it's happening all of a sudden though. Hope the speed bumps work!!!

I think it is eating too fast, my Billy does this, he can stop for weeks on end and then all of a sudden he will do it, I think it may be a case of greedyitis x

My Abby does this!

She won't eat anything but dry cat food, not even when it's mixed with wet.

She is 11 years old and when she first started to do this when I got her at 4 months old, I thought something was wrong with her.

As I paid more attention, I started to realize that it was her way of hacking up hair balls!

Most of the time when she eats, it stays down.

However, on occasion, she will go and literally gobble up the entire bowl of food, no matter how full the bowl is, and then a few minutes later go and start throwing up.

First comes the undigested whole food, and then a minute or so later, on another part of the floor or rug, comes the hair ball!

She's a fastidious groomer, so she tends to do this a few times per week.

As I said, she's been doing this all of her life, so I'm not worried.

Two of my cats weren't tolerating TOTW when we tried it. The barf factor was pretty bad on it. It started up not long after starting it, just about daily if not every other day. It's gone way down on what we're feeding now (California Natural Chicken & Rice). Now it's more of an occasional thing, usually hairball related.

My fast eater is slowed down by elevated bowls. He likes to eat off of the floor and flicks each kibble out of the bowl before eating it.

One thing that I always recommend that seems to work well is putting the food on a flatter surface. Use a plate instead of bowl. Also feed less at a time. This will make your guy eat slower because it is harder to pick up the kibble. In a bowl they get a mouthful and crunch it once or twice then swallow it whole. I am not sure on the kibble size of Taste of the Wild but larger kibble size can help too.

Good Luck!

Originally Posted by littleraven7726

Two of my cats weren't tolerating TOTW when we tried it. The barf factor was pretty bad on it. It started up not long after starting it, just about daily if not every other day. It's gone way down on what we're feeding now (California Natural Chicken & Rice). Now it's more of an occasional thing, usually hairball related.

My fast eater is slowed down by elevated bowls. He likes to eat off of the floor and flicks each kibble out of the bowl before eating it.

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They have been on Taste since late December and Tex's barfing situation improved considerably with it... it's just in the last 3-4 weeks. (He was more of a wet food barfer when he came in. And these days he is keeping that down pretty well.) Maybe hairball. I think I will start mixing Laxatone into his wet. I have to chase him around and pin him to get ANYTHING other than food into his mouth.

I have a dry food gobbler who eats, barfs, and will go back to eat more. Like a lot of people here my Vet recommended spreading the food out an a plate so she can't eat so fast. That stopped it.

I find an elevated bowl (as well as speedbumps in it) helps a lot so their necks as not as bent over when eating

Thanks everyone. all the dry bowls that Tex eats out of are now elevated. Here's hoping that helps!!! I may still invest in stainless steel speed bump bowls for dry.

And if I am vigilant about wet food, he keeps that down. If I don't pick up and cover the other cats' unfinished food, well my lil black and white Hoover takes care of it!

I elevated ALL of the dry food bowls - they are semi free fed small amounts of dry. And the vomiting has stopped. Whew.

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

I find an elevated bowl (as well as speedbumps in it) helps a lot so their necks as not as bent over when eating

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I agree with this.

You also might want to check the expiration date on the bag, or suspect that you have a bad bag of food. That happened to me one time - no changes in food and all of a sudden a couple of cats started to throw up out of the blue. It happened right after I opened up a new bag of food. I bought a new bag of food and it stopped. I took the old bag back and got a refund on it.

Both my cats were puking dry food some time ago and I also thought it was because they were eating to fast. That used to be back when I used to feed them Friskies dry (and wet) but now for the past year, I have been feeding them Wellness (wet and dry) and the puking has STOPPED! Wellness is pricey but I feel good knowing they are getting food that is good for them and won't make them potentially sick.