[3jaysmom]

I have a 10 year old tabby cat- that has been an indoor cat all of her life. She can't keep her food down, no matter what. Nothing else seems to be wrong with her. I took her to the vet about 7 months ago and they just said to switch her to wet food. She throws everything up.

I try to feed her, literally, about 6-8 little tiny pieces of food every 15 minutes, but sometimes she can't even keep that down.

She doesn't seem to have lost any weight and still lurks around like she always has.

Any suggestions?

[morgaine300]

Strange. The first thing that occurred to me was eating too fast, but if you're feeding tiny amounts separated like that, that doesn't appear to be it. I have one cat that I have to give a little spoonful to, then wait 15-20 minutes and give another spoonful. Otherwise she scarfs it so fast that she'll puke it right back up. (Maybe she does this on purpose so that she gets to eat more.)

One question is if she's always been this way, or has this started more recently? If it's started more recently I'd be inclined to think something might actually be wrong with her. Did that vet do any blood testing or anything? At age 10, she ought to have a complete blood workup done at least once a year now anyway.

I see the point of the suggestion to go to canned food, but it might go further than that. She could have some sensitivity to something in the food. In which case, I would try to find something as closely related to what a cat should eat as possible. That means most dry foods would be the last thing you'd want to be giving. I mean something that has muscle meat as a first ingredients, avoid grains, maybe avoid beef and seafood and try for just poultry or something, perhaps even avoid fruits & veggies. You might have to try a little harder and eliminate to as many non-supplement ingredients as you can, and experiment and find out what's bothering her. It might not necessarily be what are the common allergens, but just simply something that her stomach is sensitive to, which might be anything.

You might even try one of the 100% meat foods (like B.G.) and give a little of that to her and she what she does. If she keeps that down, you know it isn't the meat itself. (Just don't make a diet of that stuff cause it's not supplemented and is only meant to be some additional high-quality protein added to their diet, not a diet in and of itself.)