Vomiting cat.

I'm no expert, but I think it's natural to be hungry after vomiting. I also don't think withholding the food (or changing it) for a day is too cruel, it doesn't seem to be helping her any right now anyway.

I agree with Robert. Just make sure she has water and wait a day - then offer the food again and see how she does.

Thank you!

I have removed the food.

She is such a thin little thing, and was recently so terribly sick (nearly died) that I worry about removing her food...especially when it's in MY interests to do so.

She just went out there for more!

I am going to get The Look when she comes back here.

Nobody gives The Look like Miranda.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

did the vet check down her throat?


she's eating grass - I wonder if she has some grass stuck - you know like a grass cut at the back of her throat which is making her gag. (like having a fishbone caught at the back of your throat). Maybe she is eating because her throat is scratchy and she's trying to dislodge something.


hoping PDawg will come along and shed some light.

me.... I would hold off on food for a little bit but plenty of water available.

hope she gets better VERY soon - can you keep her in one room so she doesn't keep upchucking everywhere?

could be something stuck down there or could be serious. I heard you say shes skinny. Did she have any kidney problems or infections.
Usually a catll chuck up the grass or regurg an object, if shes actually Vomiting (like internal stomach fluids) she may have something serious. Whats her temp compared to normal? Is her skin real flaccid when you pinch a little and leave go? How bout her gums, what color are they?
Answere these and call cowdoc or pati dog.

There was no need to check down her throat...she wasn't vomiting.

Nah..she doesn't have grass stuck.

I know why she's vomiting...it'll stop.

It's just a managing it thing.

have you considered trying a different vet?

have you considered trying a different cat?

As my lulu aged, the flora in her stomach started to grow, keeping her food from going from the stomach into the intestines.

Vet put her on a low dose of prednisone and that did the trick.

Went on a maintenance dose, she lived another 3 or 4 years.

how about managing things by limiting the areas she has access to?

don't know what to say, but feel sorry for miranda

and you too ms. rabbit

Cats are smart animals, the cat might be eating for other reasons besides hunger. I don't agree with taking the food away, if the cat feels like it should eat there must be a reason why. Whether or not it seems like a hassle cleaning up the vomit, that is the choice you made by taking on the responsibility of getting an animal. If this was a child would you remove it's food until it was done vomiting? I am sure some sort of nutrients are still being passed through the food to the car whether or not it's throwing up the actual food. By taking away the food you might be making the cats immune system weaker. The cat is probably sick of throwing up to, but it needs to eat. I don't know, just my opinion.

I'm for taking the food away.
We aren't talking days here. Just feed her once a day or maybe twice. Whatever she normally gets.
If she pukes it up, don't give her more til the next meal.
She isn't going to starve.

My Ex used to get the stomach flu worse than anyone I had ever seen. Both ends. We worried about him getting dehydrated, but after seeing that even sips of water would send him puking again, we went with nothing for like a half a day. It gave his system a chance to chill out. He'd stop puking, thus stop dehydrating. Things would chill. And then we'd slowly go back to normal.

I'd probably take the same approuch with the cat.

in most cases, yes. Or at least drastically drastically limit what the options were.

Nah....she's a honey.

She's not much of a vomiter generally.

Yes...she did a lot of it before I got home yesterday...and I thought she had stopped until, obviously, she stuffed her little tummy full of goodies this morning!

At present she is resting peacefully, and I think the vomathon is over for now.

I'll let her have a little nibble in the evening and see how she goes.

From memory, this doesn't last long after the injection...and, in fact, she

She DOES have kidney problems...which I didn't know about (except theoretically, as at least the beginnings of such can be pretty much assumed in a 14 year old cat) until she became very sick with a chest infection recently and nearly died.

She is currently being managed for this problem, (with second generation ace inhibitors, thank you very much), to conserve her remaining healthy tissue, and special food.

I monitor her hydration very carefully, and other than eating like a little pig, then vomiting, she looks good.

She's actually been doing brilliantly and looking like a kitten again.

This unwellness has occurred a couple of days after each of the injections she has (I think to manage her lungs...I would have known at one point, but in the maelstrom of when she was so ill, I have forgotten exactly) from time to time.

She's vomiting her special food...which she has come to love, after a period of looking at me as though I am trying to kill her. It is a very unbecoming shade of yellow when regurgitated.

She has a very stylish Siamese figure......solid muscle...but with no real excess fat. So...she's healthily skinny....but, since she DOESN'T have much excess, I was a bit worried about not letting her eat today. Looking at it rationally, though, normally we DON'T eat when we feel nauseous...so I don't think 12 hours without food is going to kill her.

If she is still sick tomorrow, she'll go back to the vet.

Stinky only eats grass when he is trying to upchuck. (he is the hairball king)

we think your latest plan is a good'n...

yikes....worrit, worrit!