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Hello! It's our first cat, and we're running into some concerns.
He's a neutered 5 year old male, was found as a stray kitten, though looks to be primarily Russian Blue [slightly different face shape, and has a couple white patches]; we adopted him when his old owner had to move and couldn't keep her 2 cats. We've had him since this past May. She told us he had once had a urinary tract infection, and she fed him only an affordable Purina Urinary Tract health dry food. So we got it for him, and soon thereafter he began vomiting every day. Eventually [after several other things were tried], we switched to Taste of the Wild dry food [supplemented most days with 1/8 of a can of affordable wet food to try to get him more water, though he does drink his water bowl fairly well], and he stopped vomiting. Every now and again he would vomit with a hair ball [we try to brush him, but sometimes we get busy and only pet him with our hands].
Today however he has vomited literally 6 separate times. The first time, there was a lot of undigested Taste of the Wild food in it, as well as a hair ball. But since then there has been no obvious hair balls, and the food got smaller amounts, until its been just clear frothy [I presume] bile. He's been very quiet otherwise [usually he talks a lot], just curled up somewhere on his couch or next to my partner Mark. He would seem stressed right after his vomits, but that is normal for him. Then he seems fine, if quiet.
There's been nothing different, that I can recall. He is not allowed into room that have plants, as we were told he would eat them. He has caught 2 mice this week [first time since he arrived], but he has not eaten either one, just left them for us to clean up [which we happily did]. After they were found he was given a lot of praise, his 1/8 of a can of wet food, and a small all meat kitty treat. These are all at least occasionally normal things for him to eat. He's not been given catnip.
I am about to leave for 2 and change weeks to spend holidays with various relatives, and have been stressed about it, and perhaps he can tell and is reacting in a stressed way to a upcoming change, but our neighbor will come every day to feed and cuddle him the last week and change we are both gone [and the first week my partner Mark will still be here with him], and he is used to that and loves our neighbor. But I do not know how he really could tell a 'about to be leaving' stress from my normal stress.
I do not have the money to take him to a vet. We already put corks in his food to keep him from eating so quickly [he does not eat, lick, or chew on the corks, and just views them as an annoyance he must push out of the way to get to his food], but i dont know what else can be done to help him not vomit.
Was just reading about giving cats supplementary digestive enzymes. Any experiences on here with that? But I'd think that would be for more regular vomiting over a long period of time, not just this intense vomiting one day...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
He's a neutered 5 year old male, was found as a stray kitten, though looks to be primarily Russian Blue [slightly different face shape, and has a couple white patches]; we adopted him when his old owner had to move and couldn't keep her 2 cats. We've had him since this past May. She told us he had once had a urinary tract infection, and she fed him only an affordable Purina Urinary Tract health dry food. So we got it for him, and soon thereafter he began vomiting every day. Eventually [after several other things were tried], we switched to Taste of the Wild dry food [supplemented most days with 1/8 of a can of affordable wet food to try to get him more water, though he does drink his water bowl fairly well], and he stopped vomiting. Every now and again he would vomit with a hair ball [we try to brush him, but sometimes we get busy and only pet him with our hands].
Today however he has vomited literally 6 separate times. The first time, there was a lot of undigested Taste of the Wild food in it, as well as a hair ball. But since then there has been no obvious hair balls, and the food got smaller amounts, until its been just clear frothy [I presume] bile. He's been very quiet otherwise [usually he talks a lot], just curled up somewhere on his couch or next to my partner Mark. He would seem stressed right after his vomits, but that is normal for him. Then he seems fine, if quiet.
There's been nothing different, that I can recall. He is not allowed into room that have plants, as we were told he would eat them. He has caught 2 mice this week [first time since he arrived], but he has not eaten either one, just left them for us to clean up [which we happily did]. After they were found he was given a lot of praise, his 1/8 of a can of wet food, and a small all meat kitty treat. These are all at least occasionally normal things for him to eat. He's not been given catnip.
I am about to leave for 2 and change weeks to spend holidays with various relatives, and have been stressed about it, and perhaps he can tell and is reacting in a stressed way to a upcoming change, but our neighbor will come every day to feed and cuddle him the last week and change we are both gone [and the first week my partner Mark will still be here with him], and he is used to that and loves our neighbor. But I do not know how he really could tell a 'about to be leaving' stress from my normal stress.
I do not have the money to take him to a vet. We already put corks in his food to keep him from eating so quickly [he does not eat, lick, or chew on the corks, and just views them as an annoyance he must push out of the way to get to his food], but i dont know what else can be done to help him not vomit.
Was just reading about giving cats supplementary digestive enzymes. Any experiences on here with that? But I'd think that would be for more regular vomiting over a long period of time, not just this intense vomiting one day...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
