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Hi everyone - you all were so helpful with my Stewie and the ringworm - that I had to post again...this time for Dwight. A little background...dwight is about a year old - he's a long haired cat (haven't had a long haired before). He eats like a maniac!!! When we first got him - he would DEVOUR his food like he hasn't seen food before. He also eats EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. We've learned to wash our plates after dinner! He ate a 1/4 of a hot dog, bun, ketchup and pickles. He's eaten fries, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce, you name it - he's eating it (I think he's a dog trapped in a cats body). We feed him the recommended dose of food and he is at a healthy weight (8lbs). When we first got him I thought his behavior meant he was hungry - so I fed him a tiny bit more. But that made him vomit. Apparently he doesn't know when to stop! His vomit would contain whole pieces of food. So we controlled his food and life was good.
Then about 2 weeks ago - he started this vomitting jag again. Huge amounts of vomit every day. It was only one time a day - but it was a lot. He was NOT lethargic in any way and still devoured his food (controlled portions) when fed. But this time the vomit included huge hair balls (not always but about 1/2 the times). I took him to the doc and he did some tests (fecal sample and xray of his stomach to make sure there wasn't anything weird going on). He came back with a clean bill of health! So we are doing the following:
1. Changed his food to Science Diet I.D. (which he and my other cat HATE!)
2. I bought a furminator and am brushing him a lot to help reduce the fur balls
3. Giving him furball carmel stuff to help with the furballs.
In doing all of this - he has stopped barfing. He did a tiny tiny bit last night, but that was the first time in several days.
My hunch tells me the Science diet i.d. food isn't what's stopping him from vomitting. I think it's the fact that he hates it and just eats slower. My other cat is getting really annoyed at the fact that he has to eat this bad food. When he gets mad - he pees! While he's not there yet - I'm trying to prevent that from happening!
Any ideas on how to slow down my cat? I work - so I don't have time to feed him tiny bits all day long!
Then about 2 weeks ago - he started this vomitting jag again. Huge amounts of vomit every day. It was only one time a day - but it was a lot. He was NOT lethargic in any way and still devoured his food (controlled portions) when fed. But this time the vomit included huge hair balls (not always but about 1/2 the times). I took him to the doc and he did some tests (fecal sample and xray of his stomach to make sure there wasn't anything weird going on). He came back with a clean bill of health! So we are doing the following:
1. Changed his food to Science Diet I.D. (which he and my other cat HATE!)
2. I bought a furminator and am brushing him a lot to help reduce the fur balls
3. Giving him furball carmel stuff to help with the furballs.
In doing all of this - he has stopped barfing. He did a tiny tiny bit last night, but that was the first time in several days.
My hunch tells me the Science diet i.d. food isn't what's stopping him from vomitting. I think it's the fact that he hates it and just eats slower. My other cat is getting really annoyed at the fact that he has to eat this bad food. When he gets mad - he pees! While he's not there yet - I'm trying to prevent that from happening!
Any ideas on how to slow down my cat? I work - so I don't have time to feed him tiny bits all day long!