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Okay so I've had Flakes for 7 years now (he was my mom's cat before I adopted him, her house was way too stressful for him) and he's always been a cat that throws up a lot. It used to just be that he'd find bits of plastic on the floor, chew and eat them, and then throw up. Over the years it has turned into him eating whatever looks good to him - dried bits of food, plastic, paper, and the newest - carpet fibers. We feed him plenty - 1.5 cans of canned food daily and he weighs a healthy 11.5 pounds. His blood work was last taken in November and the doctor said the numbers were phenomenal for his age. We also did a fecal test and that was clean as well. Well, as clean as poop can be, that is.
Sometimes it seems like he gets nauseous and he purposefully looks for things to chew on to make him puke. The only way to get him to stop is to put him in his cage for half an hour or so until his stomach settles and he doesn't obsess over throwing up. We're going through this at the moment. We came home from shopping (were gone ~3 hours) and he ate lunch, puked twice, and we caught him chewing on a carpet fiber/string again trying to throw up so we put him in his cage. Does anyone know why he would eat stuff like this and then throw it up? There doesn't seem to be a physical/health reason for this issue but it's quite frustrating. I just want my cat to feel better and stop this behavior.
Sometimes it seems like he gets nauseous and he purposefully looks for things to chew on to make him puke. The only way to get him to stop is to put him in his cage for half an hour or so until his stomach settles and he doesn't obsess over throwing up. We're going through this at the moment. We came home from shopping (were gone ~3 hours) and he ate lunch, puked twice, and we caught him chewing on a carpet fiber/string again trying to throw up so we put him in his cage. Does anyone know why he would eat stuff like this and then throw it up? There doesn't seem to be a physical/health reason for this issue but it's quite frustrating. I just want my cat to feel better and stop this behavior.
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