cat vomits kibble but not wet food

For several years now I've noticed that when I give my cat dry kibble for bedtime snack I find that she's vomited it during the night.  I started to take the kibble and pound it with a hammer to make it crumbly and she was fine with that.  She doesn't vomit her canned food.

I want to give her freeze dried raw but she didn't like it.

I think the vomiting is related to the dry kibble. 

Any suggestions?

Beckie

Stop feeding dry kibble.

My cat eats very quickly, and would also vomit her dry food because she would eat it too quickly. I stopped giving her dry food completely, as she never vomited her wet food either!

I'd suggest to stop feeding the dry, and just stick to wet

Fast eaters don't do well on dry, as they usually throw it up afterwards.

I agree, stop feeding her the dry kibble if i makes her vomit. If you feel she needs something besides wet food, maybe try a few small treats? Single ingredient freeze dried treats might be easier on her stomach.

lindenhall57 said:

 
I want to give her freeze dried raw but she didn't like it.

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Did you hydrate the freezedried raw first?   Try putting some topper on it like bonito flakes or tuna water or fortiflora.  

If she's fine on the wet food, I would just stick with that and not give her any kibble at all. I know it's more convenient to have some kibble on hand for a quick snack though. I try not to give my one cat any kibble, and give him some freeze dried meat (dog & cat treats that are nothing but meat) instead. I cut up the big pieces into smaller treat-size pieces for him, and give him that, usually at night when it's time to go to bed.

Does she not like chewing the food?

If she's vomiting out the dry kibble, definitely consider only giving her the food that she can hold down. It can't be good for a cat to vomit that regularly. If she likes her canned, has no problems with it, and if it fits your budget, you could try giving her an all-wet diet.

What kind of dry food is it? Some kibble is just way big IMO for cats. If you're already feeding a small kibble, then yeah, you probably either should just go with wet, or you can buy a small food processor and just chop up the kibble in it before you give it to her.

I know I'm late to the conversation here but I hope you are still getting notifications from TCS and will see my comment...

I'm having the same issue with my cat Ruby (the orange tabby on the right in the profile photo). She just keeps throwing up for no apparent reason. There is sometimes a small hairball, but most of the time it is just kibble. She doesn't seem to throw up the soft food, but it's hard to tell since I feed my cats both at the same time most of the time. I know other commenters have stated the obvious, just stop feeding the cats the kibble, but it's not that simple. I get up in the middle of the night to feed my cats so I need something easy and quick to feed them or else the extra effort of getting the canned food out of the fridge and warming it in the microwave, then waiting for her to finish it all...I won't be able to fall back to sleep.
I recently switched to a different kibble and things initially improved but she just started throwing up the new kibble now, too.
I did notice, with my previous cat, Emma, she started doing the same thing...kept down soft food but threw up kibble or anything that wasn't the soft food. She ended up with leukemia and severe IBD and I ended up having to make the decision to have her put to sleep because she was suffering so much and losing huge amounts of weight. So, I am thinking, this symptom of throwing up kibble, but not soft food, could indicate a bigger problem. It is not normal to vomit up kibble for no reason. Regardless of how fast or slow the food was eaten, it is not normal or healthy to throw it up.
So, my question is...did your cat eventually become sick with cancer or IBD or anything? Or did you simply stop feeding her kibble and she got better? Did you happen to try soaking the kibble in water so it was soft? (I've tried this and Ruby wouldn't eat it. She also won't eat raw meat, so that is not an option either.)
Oh, and Ruby is not a fast eater at all -- quite the opposite. She's the slowest eater I've ever seen and she eats one piece of kibble at a time and chews each piece, so the vomiting is definitely NOT due to her eating too fast or there being large chunks. My other cat, Hazel (on the left in the profile photo) is eating the same kibble and she practically inhales it. She swallows it whole and doesn't even chew. She doesn't throw it up. So, I don't think this idea about fast eaters throwing up food holds any water. My dog also wolfs down food and does not throw it up. When I eat fast I don't throw up. Wild animals (canines, predators) eat as fast as they can or else the food gets eaten by some other animal, so it's actually pretty normal to eat fast and not throw up, from what I have observed in life. I think this idea that eating fast causes vomiting is a myth that vets have propagated because they basically don't know why certain pets throw up food a lot. The vomiting probably means there is something wrong with the pet (as in a disease process happening or a food allergy or something) and they would rather just tell you something benign instead of doing all kinds of expensive tests only to find out bad news, or find nothing and have to tell you they don't know what is causing the vomiting. That's my theory.
So I was wondering if you could provide an update on how your cat's vomiting issue turned out? I hope you were able to find a solution and things did not get worse...