My cats keeps vomiting at least once a week, need advice.

[Alvito]

It could be the food you are feeding it. My sister and mom both don't feed their cats certain food because it makes them sick sometimes. Changing the food they eat often can do it too. Most house pets aren't conditioned to keep changing food and it can be chaos on their stomachs.

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They'll just run a bunch of useless, expensive tests and find nothing. 99% of vets will jump at the chance to make a lot of money.

You have gone to some pretty shitty vets if you think that is true.

[Puupi]

Most peoples idea of a healthy dog or cat is still too fat. They should have a very defined waist and stomach tuck. Looking from the side they should not be a rectangular shape. Just because they don't have a belly hanging down doesn't mean they're a healthy weight.

They aren't fat.

Free feeding is unhealthy period and science backs it up again and again.

What is this "science"? Free feeding isn't unhealthy - it depends on the food and the cat - but the mere act of free feeding isn't unhealthy. What a load of bollocks.....

If they aren't living 15-20 years then they were not healthy.

Newsflash, they are living 15-20 years, except for those who have died in accidents. The cats we currently have are 11 years old and as healthy as cats can be.

[Danner]

I own two male cats that are brothers, around 5 y/o.

I usually just feed them normal dry food and water, and canned once or twice a week as treat.

My one cat though has recently been vomiting around once a week on average, it's usually just one big clop of digested dry food.

I think this may be attributed to the fact I bought a larger cat bowl within the last year that I fill once a day and basically let them free feed, never knew until now this is a bad idea as they always stayed at normal weight, and my other cat hasn't had any issues at all.

The cat that has been vomiting weekly has also been meowing a lot more then average lately, for now I'm going to stop free feeding him and twice a day instead as I learned this can be very bad

The problem with free feeding, explains Dr. Thomas Morganti, DVM, of the Avon Veterinary Clinic in Connecticut, is that every time your cat goes for that kibble, there’s an insulin spike. The pancreas can’t handle the long-term overload, and eventually you’re looking at a cat with diabetes.

Dr. Debora Lichtenberg, VMD, has explained here at Petful that offering all-day dry food is especially problematic: “Cats conditioned to the never-ending dry buffet are at risk for developing obesity, urinary problems and kidney failure, to name just a few of the top feline health risks of a dry food diet. It would be like a human moving his recliner to a Las Vegas buffet.”

Would appreciate any thoughts on this, and whether a trip to the Vet is necessary at this moment or just stopping the free feeding should fix him up?
Thanks

My mother has/had 3 cats.
Limitless dry food is always available. With fish for dinner. I do not think those cats ever went hungry. A good cat life!

Two of the cats were all normal, but one of the cats got very obese. Eating all the time, vomiting all the time. To my mothers major frustration, and to the ruin of any rugs in the house.
My mother suspected it might be that the fat cat just didn't stomach eating the mice it caught. Because the cat equivalent body weight of a sumo wrestler certainly did not stop it from catching mice! (I joke that it might catch moose too!)

The answer the vet gave was very simple. Diet. Take away the dry food. Control its meals. It'll hate you for a while, but that cat could already scare away bears, so eh. But unfortunately, my mother didn't want to do that. "Too much work", she said. "Think about the other cat that isn't overweight at all!". And "I'm at work for a long time every day, what if they go hungry!?".

And so there was no changes. I secretly believe the cat coerced her.

[Jessicka]

As many others have said, try different food. One of my cats (Salem) has bouts of this - always has for 12 years now - the Purina One or Iams sensitive system stuff is good (there are also all kinds of specialist stuff you can get from a vet, obviously discuss those with them), when it happens I basically switch over to that and it clears up pretty fast. Normally they have the regular version with that and a bowl of water all day, and they have a morning and evening meal of wet food. I'd never just go with one or the other; they need dry for their teeth and wet for the water. I mentioned it to the vet every year and they say there's nothing wrong with him and to stick with doing that.

If they won't drink, then try lactose free milk (special actual cat milks obviously also exist).

Different cats are different, some are awesome at regulating their own food intake, some will just eat and eat because there's food there. I think probably routine is good for them, if it gets late and they haven't eaten they'll gorge themselves and that makes them more prone to just throwing it all back up again. Same with hairballs, that'll also trigger them to be sick - you can get special food for that too. If they are, as my vet would describe "food motivated", then you need to take the food away outside of meal times to keep to that routine.

[Shadowferal]

When we had cats, we never free fed them.

Mixed the dry with the wet food.

[zenkai]

I own two male cats that are brothers, around 5 y/o.

I usually just feed them normal dry food and water, and canned once or twice a week as treat.

My one cat though has recently been vomiting around once a week on average, it's usually just one big clop of digested dry food.

I think this may be attributed to the fact I bought a larger cat bowl within the last year that I fill once a day and basically let them free feed, never knew until now this is a bad idea as they always stayed at normal weight, and my other cat hasn't had any issues at all.

The cat that has been vomiting weekly has also been meowing a lot more then average lately, for now I'm going to stop free feeding him and twice a day instead as I learned this can be very bad

The problem with free feeding, explains Dr. Thomas Morganti, DVM, of the Avon Veterinary Clinic in Connecticut, is that every time your cat goes for that kibble, there’s an insulin spike. The pancreas can’t handle the long-term overload, and eventually you’re looking at a cat with diabetes.

Dr. Debora Lichtenberg, VMD, has explained here at Petful that offering all-day dry food is especially problematic: “Cats conditioned to the never-ending dry buffet are at risk for developing obesity, urinary problems and kidney failure, to name just a few of the top feline health risks of a dry food diet. It would be like a human moving his recliner to a Las Vegas buffet.”

Would appreciate any thoughts on this, and whether a trip to the Vet is necessary at this moment or just stopping the free feeding should fix him up?
Thanks

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