Hi guys. I'm hoping one of you kitty experts here might have some guidance for me. Hopefully this is in the right forum, I wasn't sure whether to post here or in raw food.
Goblin is six years old and is (probably) a herpes kitty. He has never had bloodwork done, but my last vet told me it's likely that he has herpes because he gets a URI that manifests as an eye infection about once a year (treated with topical antibiotic in the eye as well as oral L-lysine.)
He has pretty much always vomited a couple times a week. At first I assumed it was because he was eating too fast, as it almost always happened right after he was finished eating and he always threw up whole chunks of food. A while back, he began digging at his ears, and the vet said he had an ear infection that was likely caused by a food allergy, which was probably also the cause of the vomiting.
At that point, I switched him from Friskies canned to Weruva and saw a decrease in vomiting, to about once a week. I'm now currently in the process of switching him to Primal freeze dried raw and he's vomited twice in the last couple of days, but now he's vomiting less food and mostly fur, and only after eating the canned food, never after a raw meal. He has short fur and gets brushed regularly.
I've conversed with a few different vets about this, but what I get told is either that I need to buy him a prescription hairball control diet (which he wouldn't eat even if it did work, he won't eat pate), or that it's just "normal" for cats to vomit. I don't believe that's true. He has yearly wellness exams and has always been deemed healthy aside from the occasional herpes or allergy flare ups.
There are no symptoms other than the vomiting. He's not scratching, is grooming regularly, cat box is normal, and although he's never been super active, he's definitely not lethargic.
I would like to switch him fully to the FD raw but I was trying to make a slower transition because he has had some constipation issues in the past (twice, cleared up by IV fluid and laxative) and I've heard the bone content in raw food can sometimes cause issues of that sort, though he seems fine on that front thus far.
Suggestions? Should I keep going with the FD, or go back to the Weruva or a different canned? I unfortunately don't have the money to go vet-hopping until I get lucky with one that doesn't tell me a vomiting cat is normal. :/
Goblin is six years old and is (probably) a herpes kitty. He has never had bloodwork done, but my last vet told me it's likely that he has herpes because he gets a URI that manifests as an eye infection about once a year (treated with topical antibiotic in the eye as well as oral L-lysine.)
He has pretty much always vomited a couple times a week. At first I assumed it was because he was eating too fast, as it almost always happened right after he was finished eating and he always threw up whole chunks of food. A while back, he began digging at his ears, and the vet said he had an ear infection that was likely caused by a food allergy, which was probably also the cause of the vomiting.
At that point, I switched him from Friskies canned to Weruva and saw a decrease in vomiting, to about once a week. I'm now currently in the process of switching him to Primal freeze dried raw and he's vomited twice in the last couple of days, but now he's vomiting less food and mostly fur, and only after eating the canned food, never after a raw meal. He has short fur and gets brushed regularly.
I've conversed with a few different vets about this, but what I get told is either that I need to buy him a prescription hairball control diet (which he wouldn't eat even if it did work, he won't eat pate), or that it's just "normal" for cats to vomit. I don't believe that's true. He has yearly wellness exams and has always been deemed healthy aside from the occasional herpes or allergy flare ups.
There are no symptoms other than the vomiting. He's not scratching, is grooming regularly, cat box is normal, and although he's never been super active, he's definitely not lethargic.
I would like to switch him fully to the FD raw but I was trying to make a slower transition because he has had some constipation issues in the past (twice, cleared up by IV fluid and laxative) and I've heard the bone content in raw food can sometimes cause issues of that sort, though he seems fine on that front thus far.
Suggestions? Should I keep going with the FD, or go back to the Weruva or a different canned? I unfortunately don't have the money to go vet-hopping until I get lucky with one that doesn't tell me a vomiting cat is normal. :/
