Puking kitten. Help needed!

So my 14 week old kitten keeps throwing up :-( I'm relatively confident it's nothing serious and due to overeating. He's been chucking up partially digested food not more than once a day for about the past week. I have noticed that he's recently developed a habit of really gobbling his food up and then moving on to his sister's food. I can also say that he will literally eat ANYTHING. The other night his sister caught a big moth. She had the sense to turn her nose up at it but he ran straight up and gobbled the lot before I had chance to stop him... Ewwww! He is otherwise very very well and full of it but I will, of course, get him checked by a vet if he doesn't improve. In the meantime I just wondered if anyone has any tips for getting him to eat slower. I'm considering buying slow feed bowls. Has anyone tried them? Thanks x

How much and how often are you feeding them? I am wondering if he is getting too hungry?

talkingpeanut said:

How much and how often are you feeding them? I am wondering if he is getting too hungry?

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We were feeding 1 pouch 3 times a day which is what the packaging recommends. Because of this issue we've been feeding half meals twice as often as best we can (although this is tricky as we both work) however he is still getting the recommended amount per day plus dry food any time he wants although he doesn't really touch these

If hunger is making him goble so fast could you try adding some dry kitten kibble into his wet it will slow him down ( even just a teaspoon or ten bits to start will slow him down) and may get him over the reluctance to eat it . This worked for one of our 4 kittens at about 10 weeks . He was always starving at meals done first and wouldn't touch the dry. BUT not throwing up[emoji]128580[/emoji] If It does not help try a differant dry food maybe he is picky about flavors. We have one that still is not so fond of dry and one that will only eat wet when it is ocean fish &tuna friskys and eats lots of dry. Also put them in spart spaces to eat for a bit bathroom or mud room ect. for piggy and kit for sis[emoji]129303[/emoji]

howmany said:

If hunger is making him goble so fast could you try adding some dry kitten kibble into his wet it will slow him down ( even just a teaspoon or ten bits to start will slow him down) and may get him over the reluctance to eat it . This worked for one of our 4 kittens at about 10 weeks . He was always starving at meals done first and wouldn't touch the dry. BUT not throwing up[emoji]128580[/emoji] If It does not help try a differant dry food maybe he is picky about flavors. We have one that still is not so fond of dry and one that will only eat wet when it is ocean fish &tuna friskys and eats lots of dry. Also put them in spart spaces to eat for a bit bathroom or mud room ect. for piggy and kit for sis[emoji]129303[/emoji]

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Thanks. I'll try mixing the dry. We've used whiskers, Asda's own and Felix (uk brands sorry) which are all much of a much but there isn't much alternative unless I look at more specialist places. They all have more or less the same effect although they seem to prefer the own brand. We will feed them separately if we have to although the female (Misty) tends to graze and take a while over it which makes this a bit difficult as they get upset when they can't get to each other. We've started to hang around them when they're eating though as much as possible and stop him eating her food. Interestingly Squirt (the barfy one) is a good 500g smaller than her and has always been much smaller, hence his name [emoji]128514[/emoji]

Kittens eat almost double what a grown cat would. He really may just be hungry! Try feeding smaller and more frequent wet meals for now, and leave dry food down all the time.

Also, have they been wormed?

Yeh he's been wormed although due again soon. I do wonder if he's basically going through 'kittie puberty' and his body is just really telling him to grow because until recently he's always been tiny and always turned his nose up a bit at food so maybe this is his way of catching up. At the moment we are just giving lots of regular small meals and I'm giving them quite a bit more than what the packages recommend daily in total as he's obviously hungry

Wurp (and he's 12) does the scarf-n-barf.  He will do it every time, no matter how often or how much I feed him.  I bought him one of those small-dog slow feed dishes, that has the humps/bumps inside it so they have to slow down.  It helped tremendously with the wet food.  Not sure how it will do with dry, if you feed dry.