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Yesterday Merrily, one of my (many) cats, was slow to eat breakfast. We added a “topper” of crumbled dried turkey livers, and she ate with gusto. Then she vomited it all back up. A few hours later she was vomiting again. Then she vomited or dry heaved again in the afternoon. I withheld supper and gave her a dose of Ipecac 30c, but she still vomited again three times before midnight. At 1:45 she got up and took a long drink. No vomiting since, but she refused breakfast — even plain chicken broth. It’s now noon. Merrily is usually frisky first thing in the morning, but this morning she did not do her usual scamper about the bedroom. However, I did make her move rooms at 4 am since I had a work appointment. Since then she is just lying around, but that’s what she usually does at this time of day.
Another kitty, Delilah, was also slow to eat breakfast and vomited it up a couple of hours after she ate. That was the end of the vomiting for her, but since Merrily was vomiting so much, I still decided to rest her tummy, i.e., no supper. She ate a light pre-breakfast meal at 4 am and a small breakfast at 8. She is doing fine. No change in activity level.
Note that the two of them do not eat the same food. So, I don’t think the cause is bad food. So far, no one else has shown unusual vomiting (Lucky vomited some fluid with a pine needle. The others don’t bother the garland.)
My hunch is to just to leave Merrily for now to see whether this passes on its own since she is not a “fragile” cat and doesn’t show any discomfort. Does that seem appropriate, and if so, should I reconsider if she refuses supper and breakfast again — as long as she continues to show no discomfort?
Another kitty, Delilah, was also slow to eat breakfast and vomited it up a couple of hours after she ate. That was the end of the vomiting for her, but since Merrily was vomiting so much, I still decided to rest her tummy, i.e., no supper. She ate a light pre-breakfast meal at 4 am and a small breakfast at 8. She is doing fine. No change in activity level.
Note that the two of them do not eat the same food. So, I don’t think the cause is bad food. So far, no one else has shown unusual vomiting (Lucky vomited some fluid with a pine needle. The others don’t bother the garland.)
My hunch is to just to leave Merrily for now to see whether this passes on its own since she is not a “fragile” cat and doesn’t show any discomfort. Does that seem appropriate, and if so, should I reconsider if she refuses supper and breakfast again — as long as she continues to show no discomfort?