16 yr. old female cat vomits at least 3 times a day after eating or drinking water.

by Adriana C. Wilson
(Las Vegas, NV. )

i love my cat, dollie dearly, but for sometime now she will eat and/or drink and sometimes neither and she will vomit 3 to 4 times a day, especially, AFTER eating dry food. i have bought expensive to the cheapest of dry foods. she does on occasion keep wet food down,although, when she does vomit the dry food it will come up whole and it will be anywhere from 5 minutes to half an hour after she has eaten but the food still comes up unchewed or digested. she has lost weight but still is active but her stool comes out soft, runny and has a fowl smell. she will not cover her stool when using clean litter box, cleaned ones or somewhat used ones and at times she will do it right outside the litter box even when it has fresh litter n no odors, or anything in it. my financial situations are not able to take her to any vet, i have called around n told them my situation, but they all say the same thing that i need to take her for tests, blood work, etc. also, there are times where she will vomit hairballs and foamy liquid. she is not dehydrated or in pain, yet she seeems to gain weight and still looks too skinny although, she has always been a lean, slender cat, it saddens me to see her not being able to keep her food down. i hope you are able to help me with a few suggestions that may be helpful. she still has alot of spunk in her and doesnt show ANY signs of having to be put down or giving up on life. she is spoiled n set in her ways, but she is family and we adore her, she is QUEEN OF THE HOUSEHOLD when it comes to the other cats and two dogs we have, and she lets them know this, 100%, lol!!! My thanks and graditude to you for providing this site, for pet owners looking for answers to questions without the financial burden.


Answer from Kate
well of course your cat should see vet as you know so all i can do is make a suggestion to try but at the end of the day if there is a medical condition affecting her then no matter what you do will not help her.

She may be a the sort of cat who does not chew her food properly and this causes her to vomit. I used to have a cat who did the same. In the end we solved the problem by giving her much smaller meals but more regularly. This prevented her from eating to much without chewing and so causing sickness and also she became used to getting food regularly and so this also helped to calm her down and eat and chew her food.

the other option is that she may be suffering from hairballs which can cause this frequent vomiting too. please see my page here about hairballs for more on this

http://www.our-happy-cat.com/hairballs.html

I hope you can find a solution for her.

best wishes Kate