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Cats often have hair balls. When too much hair builds up in their stomachs, they will gag and choke for a while and expel a long roundish ball of hair (it looks sort of like it came out the other end). It is rather disturbing and hair ball medicine can help. It is usually a sort of oily paste that the cats like to eat and an inch or so of the stuff is supposed to keep them from getting hair balls.
My cat threw up because of some plastic string that she ate (dont know where she found it) so if somethings upsetting your cats stomache itll probably want to throw up
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoAnswer:
Cats often will eat grass because of hairballs so it could be this, but with the Menu Foods Company problem I would take your cat into the vets for a good check up and your cat's diet may have to be changed. I am watching my 2 dogs and cat like a hawk on the foods I've bought them and I'm think of making my own foods for them because I don't trust what is coming out on the news regarding what is in pet foods. There are no fast and set rulings on what is in pet foods, so that's a wake-up call for a lot of us.
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Does your cat only vomit up dry food, or other types of food as well? It sounds like your cat is completely rejecting its food because it cannot digest or swallow it, either from eating too quickly or too much at a time, or it could be down to the food itself.
Many brands of food (particularly dry) are packed with corns and grains. This is cheap carbohydrate filler that the food manufacturers use as its a cheaper source of protein than meat is. Cats are strict carnivores, so can only get their nutrients from meat-based protein, not plant-based protein.
Sadly, it is all this carbohydrate filler is probably the reason your cat is vomiting up undigested pieces immediately after eating. Cats cannot digest such a high level carbohydrate at all; the stomach usually ends up working far harder than it should just to try and break the kibble down (a cat's stomach has evolved to break down raw meat quickly - not to store grain). This doesn't help as many cats will just swallow pieces of kibble whole - they will often not crunch the food. The biscuits will often just sit in the stomach for long periods of time and often get converted into fat (this is one of the main causes of obesity) if the cat does manage to digest it. Yes, even vomiting up food the cat has had for years can happen.
It might be advisable to take him to the vets to make sure there is no underlying problem, and to switch him to a grain-free food. There are many wet foods that are high in meat and grain free, but there are also some dry foods out there with no grain such as Orijen. Look at the Ingredients and stay away from labels such as "grain, corn, wheat gluten, grain/corn by product, by product meal" etc.
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∙ 15y agosometimes cats feel like they should clean up after themselves. It just like if you just threw up on your carpet. What would you do? You would clean it up the best of your ability, same goes with cats.
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∙ 16y agoSometimes a cat will vomit if it eats too fast or eats too cold of food.
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∙ 15y agowell when i was at my friends house her cat threw up after eating a month old dead rat.
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-_- yes
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-_- yes
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