Embo
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Hi all, just after some advice before we pack her off to the vets! Sorry, this might be long so I can get all info down.
We have 2 cats, rescued them just over 2 years ago. Brother and sister, they are now 4 years old. They were given to us as indoor only as had never been outside in their lives.
Male cat, (short hair) 4kg, no problems with him whatsoever.
Female cat (long hair) about 2.5kg (she is tiny) is sometimes sick after her meals. Has the odd hairball.
When we got them, they were on wet food, so we kept this up. Eventually moved them onto raw. All going very well. After a succession of holidays and family looking after them and complaining about raw diet (it's gross, apparently), we switched them back onto wet food for when we went away. We didn't get round to changing their diet back until recently.
Male cat will eat anything we put down. Female is a bit picky and won't eat certain flavours, but then would start to be sick after eating certain brands. It got to the point where we had tried all different brands, but she can only eat 2 or 3 types/flavours without being ill. So our girl has either developed allergies or has a sensitive stomach (or both).
We decided to switch back to raw as was the only time she was never ill. We did it SLOWLY over the course of a few weeks and now are on 100% raw again. Started off very well, apparently she very much missed having meaty bones. No sickness at all for several weeks.
The other evening (Thursday 19), OH & I were out so we asked MIL to come and feed the cats. Meal was prepared, already in bowls, in fridge. All she had to do was put it down.
We came home later to 2 piles of sick. It was the fish we had prepared, mixed with biscuits (we still have remnants of a box I've been meaning to throw away). We knew it was female as she had developed an intolerance to these biscuits! 3 in the morning, male cat wakes us up being sick. Part-digested fish.
OH phones his mum the next day to find out she had microwaved the fish (!?) to warm it and given them some biscuits she found in the cupboard as they still looked hungry (why people can't follow instructions and think they know better is beyond me!).
Next morning was fish again (their favourite meal by far, so we thought we'd give it again to make up for the night before). Boy cat ate every morsel and perfectly fine. Girl cat scoffed it (was likely starving) and sick again (regurgitated, as it wasn't long after and looked pretty much as it was in the bowl).
So evening comes and it's lamb heart for tea. To stop her bolting her food, I gave them very tiny portions over the space of an hour. This worked perfectly, both cats fine. Phew.
No sickness until the weekend, she regurgitated a few chunks of heart, but went back and ate the rest with no problems. Otherwise fine until this morning when fish was on the menu!
She was sick twice - once was regurgitated shortly after they ate. The next time was part digested about 30 mins after.
I plan on giving her some bland food tonight (some boiled chicken, probably) and tomorrow, try to ease her back into it slowly.
She is otherwise fine in herself. Using the toilet normally, no abnormal stools. Drinking water, running around and playful as always. Most of her sick has only ever been regurgitated, at most part-digested, even with the wet food.
I'm at a loss as to what to do. We will take her to the vet if bland food for a few days doesn't help.
Any ideas? Besides not giving fish again? We thought we'd got over this as genuinely thought it was the canned food
We have 2 cats, rescued them just over 2 years ago. Brother and sister, they are now 4 years old. They were given to us as indoor only as had never been outside in their lives.
Male cat, (short hair) 4kg, no problems with him whatsoever.
Female cat (long hair) about 2.5kg (she is tiny) is sometimes sick after her meals. Has the odd hairball.
When we got them, they were on wet food, so we kept this up. Eventually moved them onto raw. All going very well. After a succession of holidays and family looking after them and complaining about raw diet (it's gross, apparently), we switched them back onto wet food for when we went away. We didn't get round to changing their diet back until recently.
Male cat will eat anything we put down. Female is a bit picky and won't eat certain flavours, but then would start to be sick after eating certain brands. It got to the point where we had tried all different brands, but she can only eat 2 or 3 types/flavours without being ill. So our girl has either developed allergies or has a sensitive stomach (or both).
We decided to switch back to raw as was the only time she was never ill. We did it SLOWLY over the course of a few weeks and now are on 100% raw again. Started off very well, apparently she very much missed having meaty bones. No sickness at all for several weeks.
The other evening (Thursday 19), OH & I were out so we asked MIL to come and feed the cats. Meal was prepared, already in bowls, in fridge. All she had to do was put it down.
We came home later to 2 piles of sick. It was the fish we had prepared, mixed with biscuits (we still have remnants of a box I've been meaning to throw away). We knew it was female as she had developed an intolerance to these biscuits! 3 in the morning, male cat wakes us up being sick. Part-digested fish.
OH phones his mum the next day to find out she had microwaved the fish (!?) to warm it and given them some biscuits she found in the cupboard as they still looked hungry (why people can't follow instructions and think they know better is beyond me!).
Next morning was fish again (their favourite meal by far, so we thought we'd give it again to make up for the night before). Boy cat ate every morsel and perfectly fine. Girl cat scoffed it (was likely starving) and sick again (regurgitated, as it wasn't long after and looked pretty much as it was in the bowl).
So evening comes and it's lamb heart for tea. To stop her bolting her food, I gave them very tiny portions over the space of an hour. This worked perfectly, both cats fine. Phew.
No sickness until the weekend, she regurgitated a few chunks of heart, but went back and ate the rest with no problems. Otherwise fine until this morning when fish was on the menu!
She was sick twice - once was regurgitated shortly after they ate. The next time was part digested about 30 mins after.
I plan on giving her some bland food tonight (some boiled chicken, probably) and tomorrow, try to ease her back into it slowly.
She is otherwise fine in herself. Using the toilet normally, no abnormal stools. Drinking water, running around and playful as always. Most of her sick has only ever been regurgitated, at most part-digested, even with the wet food.
I'm at a loss as to what to do. We will take her to the vet if bland food for a few days doesn't help.
Any ideas? Besides not giving fish again? We thought we'd got over this as genuinely thought it was the canned food
