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Please provide any thoughts or info you may have to share, I am at a loss!
Poos is an apx 9 yr old male, neutered cat. I adopted him 7 years ago. He has been fed a generic, store brand dry cat food for all 7 years. At times he would regurgitate (he would eat too fast) and like other cats, there have been occasions of vomiting - nothing to worry about. Anytime I would take him to the vet, I would ask about this but the vet never seemed worried. Here comes the issue:
Approximately 3 weeks ago I switched Poos from Purina Indoor formula ((still feel guilty for feeding him this for so long )) to Natural Balance LID Salmon and Peas. I made a gradual intro after a day of fasting (mixing the old and new didnt seem appropriate in this case) which went over fine. However about a week and a half in to the new food, he started vomiting. At first I chalked it up to the grass he had clearly consumed and deemed that he would no longer be allowed outside without direct supervision. Three days later I began to worry it wasn't just the grass. Poos proceeded to vomit about 30 minutes after eating... every time. I fasted him for a day, fed baby food for two days, and then fed him wet cat food for a day. Yesterday I mixed wet food / dry food (Canidae GF Pure Chicken) at about a 50/50 ratio. Everything went fine. This morning I fed him dry only and sure enough, 30 minutes later he threw up!
I was convinced the Natural Balance was too rich for him... that was a pretty drastic change... but now that the Canidae is having the same effect... I am not sure what it could be. Everything wet stays down just fine. Anything dry, comes up a period of time after it has been partially digested (puke always contains food that has clearly begun breaking down).
PLEASE any thoughts? - I am not opposed to an all wet diet and have now realized this is even better than a GF dry food. I want to switch him to all wet because I do not think he is getting enough water (he is INCREDIBLY picky - he will drink out of the toilet but not a brand new, clean glass cup that is full of bottled water) but I now have two bags of (what I think is) decent cat food. I'll throw away $35 if that is what this means but wanted to reach out to my fellow kitty parents before I do!
BTW - At 15 lbs, the vet said Poos should not gain any more weight but was ok (he is a bigger sized cat). I have estimated that he has lost 4lbs over the last two months (partially due to this situation partially due to the smaller amount of Purina that I was feeding him right before this). He still looks very healthy and by no means is underweight but I really don't want him to get there. Also, his fur keeps improving. He has always been a handsome fella but he is SO shiny and soft now, and he sheds much much less.
Please let me know any thoughts or ideas or if I can fill you in on anything I missed.
Thank you so much!!!
Poos is an apx 9 yr old male, neutered cat. I adopted him 7 years ago. He has been fed a generic, store brand dry cat food for all 7 years. At times he would regurgitate (he would eat too fast) and like other cats, there have been occasions of vomiting - nothing to worry about. Anytime I would take him to the vet, I would ask about this but the vet never seemed worried. Here comes the issue:
Approximately 3 weeks ago I switched Poos from Purina Indoor formula ((still feel guilty for feeding him this for so long )) to Natural Balance LID Salmon and Peas. I made a gradual intro after a day of fasting (mixing the old and new didnt seem appropriate in this case) which went over fine. However about a week and a half in to the new food, he started vomiting. At first I chalked it up to the grass he had clearly consumed and deemed that he would no longer be allowed outside without direct supervision. Three days later I began to worry it wasn't just the grass. Poos proceeded to vomit about 30 minutes after eating... every time. I fasted him for a day, fed baby food for two days, and then fed him wet cat food for a day. Yesterday I mixed wet food / dry food (Canidae GF Pure Chicken) at about a 50/50 ratio. Everything went fine. This morning I fed him dry only and sure enough, 30 minutes later he threw up!
I was convinced the Natural Balance was too rich for him... that was a pretty drastic change... but now that the Canidae is having the same effect... I am not sure what it could be. Everything wet stays down just fine. Anything dry, comes up a period of time after it has been partially digested (puke always contains food that has clearly begun breaking down).
PLEASE any thoughts? - I am not opposed to an all wet diet and have now realized this is even better than a GF dry food. I want to switch him to all wet because I do not think he is getting enough water (he is INCREDIBLY picky - he will drink out of the toilet but not a brand new, clean glass cup that is full of bottled water) but I now have two bags of (what I think is) decent cat food. I'll throw away $35 if that is what this means but wanted to reach out to my fellow kitty parents before I do!
BTW - At 15 lbs, the vet said Poos should not gain any more weight but was ok (he is a bigger sized cat). I have estimated that he has lost 4lbs over the last two months (partially due to this situation partially due to the smaller amount of Purina that I was feeding him right before this). He still looks very healthy and by no means is underweight but I really don't want him to get there. Also, his fur keeps improving. He has always been a handsome fella but he is SO shiny and soft now, and he sheds much much less.
Please let me know any thoughts or ideas or if I can fill you in on anything I missed.
Thank you so much!!!