My sweetest cat, Emma, that I've had the longest - 16 years - has gastritis as diagnosed by my vet. It seems to come and go but mostly doesn't go away. Several days will go by with no throwing up and all seems fine. Then several days with more throwing up. The last couple of days has been lots of throwing up - mostly white liquid but not only that today.
Emma has seemingly always thrown up or at least in the last 6 years or so. But it's gotten worse in the last 2-3 years. I've had Emma since she was born (in my house) but I didn't know nearly enough about cats and she wasn't socialized enough. To this day she will hardly let me pick her up and giving her medication or taking her to the vet is difficult and almost always impossible. I look her to the vet twice last year. As my vet says, it makes Emma stressed and really angry. I can't give her medication at home.
Presently she eats only wild caught tuna (people food), a little bit of Iams dry food and a few Temptations treats. Generally she avoids new food like it's poison. As a result of all of this she continues to get thinner. She drinks lots of water due to dehydration from throwing up and then pees all the time and sometimes not in the right places. I love her dearly and she is super sweet but this is worrisome and about to make me crazy.
All of that to say, does anyone here have more ideas? Has anyone fed the Rawz Aujou food in pouches? I'm thinking it might be similar enough to tuna that she might eat it and it would be more nutritionally complete. Any advice or suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.
Emma has seemingly always thrown up or at least in the last 6 years or so. But it's gotten worse in the last 2-3 years. I've had Emma since she was born (in my house) but I didn't know nearly enough about cats and she wasn't socialized enough. To this day she will hardly let me pick her up and giving her medication or taking her to the vet is difficult and almost always impossible. I look her to the vet twice last year. As my vet says, it makes Emma stressed and really angry. I can't give her medication at home.
Presently she eats only wild caught tuna (people food), a little bit of Iams dry food and a few Temptations treats. Generally she avoids new food like it's poison. As a result of all of this she continues to get thinner. She drinks lots of water due to dehydration from throwing up and then pees all the time and sometimes not in the right places. I love her dearly and she is super sweet but this is worrisome and about to make me crazy.
All of that to say, does anyone here have more ideas? Has anyone fed the Rawz Aujou food in pouches? I'm thinking it might be similar enough to tuna that she might eat it and it would be more nutritionally complete. Any advice or suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.