Again with my little knowledge with cats I don't know what classifies a lot..hum she pees say 4 times a day
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Again with my little knowledge with cats I don't know what classifies a lot..hum she pees say 4 times a day
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Try putting a small ball in the food bowl so that the cat has to slow down to eat because he/she will have to move it around.
Doesn't matter if you brush or not, they will still get hairballs. Some food brands (e.g., Iams) have hairball formulas.
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This doesn't eliminate the chance of hairballs though. One of our cats was just a meticulous cleaner. No matter how often we brushed him, he would still spend most of his awake time cleaning. He was a domestic shorthair as well, who got brushed regularly, but had hairball problems. Our vet suggested a little dollup of butter on the side of his food dish every once in a while. It did help with the hairballs.
Cats also instinctively throw up. If they catch and eat critters, there is bone material that doesn't get digested and can't pass through, so the digestive system wraps this stuff up into a tight bundle and the cat regurgitates it. One theory as to why cats eat grass and plants is because it triggers this "clean out" mechanism.
One of our cats gulps down her food, and then throws it up. The previous owner says she was raised with dogs, so she was "competing". Our other cat got a bladder stone, so we had to switch food. For whatever reason, with the new food, the first cat seems to have slowed down her eating, and doesn't throw up nearly as much as she used to. Also, we switched from hard food to a mixture of soft food/hard food (they eat some of each), and that may have had something to do with it.
One of our cats gulps down her food, and then throws it up. The previous owner says she was raised with dogs, so she was "competing". Our other cat got a bladder stone, so we had to switch food. For whatever reason, with the new food, the first cat seems to have slowed down her eating, and doesn't throw up nearly as much as she used to. Also, we switched from hard food to a mixture of soft food/hard food (they eat some of each), and that may have had something to do with it.
My cat does this too. She eats fast and swallows it without chewing. She'll gorge herself if I don't limit her food. I think when I give her smaller amounts it helps out.
One possibility that hasn't been mentioned yet would be an issue with something that the cat has sporadic contact with. For example, many cats are lactose intolerant. If ours manages to lick up even a very tiny amount of milk or cheese then it throws up.
4 times is a fair amount. Is the vomit always food or is it a yellowish liquid?
Like someone else said it could be a sign of kidney problems. I had to put one of my cats to sleep on the 22nd because his kidneys failing. He was only 11.
We have a cat (Sammy - dsh) about 9 years old and he was doing the same thing. He finally just quit eating so we hospitalized him and ran all the tests. We thought hairball as he seemed to have this pattern of having puke attacks for days then all of a sudden we find the gift. Everything came back normal so we did an ultrasound again thinking we'd see some sort of hairball blockage. Again no, but DID see a mass-like object around the spleen. I immediately jump to cancer, but the biopsy was spleen hyperplasia and the cat just started eating again out of the blue.
Cat diagnostics and hospitalization are pricey - we're into Sammy around $1,500 - but thats who we are...
Best of luck - not much fun with sick pets.