Not baby related. Cat advice needed!!

Ok, a totally un baby related post but as most of you give excellent advice and a lot of you have cats I thought "who better to ask"

I have a very fussy eater of a cat. He is on lots of meds for his heart and we hide it in his food so it is important that he eats his food.

Eating food is not so much of an issue as keeping it down! Little bugger will not eat dry food at all (we have tried many over the years and he has finally given it up. even the Hills sensitive stomach). He gobbles down fresh meat and no sooner has he finished it but he throws the whole lot back up!!! I have tried special hypoallergenic wet food from the vet and the little monkey vomits that too.

Apart from spending an hour slowly giving him mouthful after mouthful (and he still will occassionally vomit) I cant think of any other ways to do it.

With a new baby on the way (yep, baby fits into post somehow) I dont have time to spend an hour feeding my "big boy". and whilst we draw out his food he would have you believe we were torturing him!

ANY SUGGESTIONS?????

Thanks

What sort of wet food are you giving him nzpiper? If it's something like whiskas or iams or some other singles/little tins - try mixing the meat up with water Say if the meat fills 1/2 his bowl, fill it to 3/4 with water and mix it up well so it's almost like a gravy - he water should slow him down plus it'll help his digestion (my neighbour was having spewy-cat issues, and the vet suggested this and it works well)

Amber, that is such a cool idea! Expensive, but hey, it could be worth it?

Have you ever tried soaking dry food? It's hard to know if it would work because if he doesn't eat dry food (and I would say it may be too dry for him if he's throwing up meat), but throws up wet food, it's a bit of a pickle, isn't it?

I'm assuming you've probably taken him to a vet. I knew someone who's cat had liquid meals cos it couldn't eat.

OK, I've just realised I'm probably no help at all, but just want to say good on you for taking the time to do that! We do anything for our furbabies I guess - mine just brought in an eel!

Hi Nzpiper, I think you and I shared posts a while ago about our sick fur-boys. Our boy was one 7-8 tablets a day, and we struggled to get them into him too. He was far too clever and would eat the meat and then spit out the pill!! Smarty pants! Eventually we started buying those roast chickens from the supermarket and hid his pills in pieces of that. He seemed to love it - so might be worth a try.

Our little girl is the spewer (3 times this week she has spewed on the bed, and its soaked through to the duvet....as you can imagine I am SOOOOO impressed!!) Drycleaners love us!! We have tried all sorts with her - and the key seems to be variety...and plain old jellymeat seems to be good as well. The other thing that she seems to like and manages to keep in down - human tuna (just get the one in springwater).

Worth a try. Good Luck - we know exactly what you are going through. Hang in there!

pepsi wrote: My cat has some tablets that I crush into and powder and mix with some ice cream or yoghurt....works for us and saves me having to try and ram them down her throat....of course if you have tons of tablets to crush it could be labour intensive, but if you have to do it, crushing between 2 metal spoons works fastest.. meow.

oooo I like that one. I might try that. Then I wont feel SO bad when he throws up his dinner. Tonight I gave him an "entree" and that was cool. Then DF gave him a big "main"...he threw up...but I note the little bugger had spat out his pill anyway!

No BS, he has always had this tendancy. I really believe he just gutses himself and then it hits his tummy and comes straight back up.....it is never even chewed!!! And he wants more food straight away!

I wonder if he is like a reflux baby????

I think the little and often trick is the way to go....bloody pure breds!! Love him to pieces though...he is my best mate

ooh gawd he isnt a persian is he...we had three of those....found anti fur ball formula stuff worked the best on them....

hava friend who breeds burmese if he is one of those - she knows all the tricks

Bombshell wrote: ooh gawd he isnt a persian is he...we had three of those....found anti fur ball formula stuff worked the best on them.... hava friend who breeds burmese if he is one of those - she knows all the tricks

He's a Birman.





This is the wee culprit!!

As for the dairy question. Apart from when he steals the milk outa my porridge (he loves it) we only give him the Whiskas milk...he adores it!!!! And that doesnt bother him.

yeah, he gets checked every 3 months at the vets and is always in great health apart from his heart. I think he is lazy and finds wet food like "junk food" and dry food is "healthy". Just like kids. The problem is compunded by his little brother who will happily eat anything. Thankfully the little one doesnt steal from the older one.

I think we will just try little and often. I have emailed his vet so hopefully will get more ideas there too.