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Cat is 9/10 year's old... biggest issue is finding food he likes to eat. Tried giving him just chicken and he just likes licking the raw chicken thighs not much calories from there.
In two month's we changed his diet around. I know not the greatest idea, but he was loosing weight not eating. So the dry food we stopped was making him throw up. We stopped giving him Fancy Feast than Science Diet Prescription for ID, and Hill's Balance. So far Science threw up every 2 day's and Hill's Balance once a day.
Going to try to find new wet food thinking Natural Instinct Limited Ingredients is the next choice.
With all the various ailments the cats in my life have suffered, my vet had one rule: GET THEM TO EAT.
With Daisy.......pancreatitis, cancer, coronary insufficiency and chronic renal failure..........I gave her the smelliest cat food made at the time. This was in the late 90's early 2000's. It was Sheba. I warmed it up....good Lord it stank.. but....she ate.
Today's Sheba doesn't smell as rank......but the pates are very low carbs. Heated.......it has a fine consistency....nice and smelly for kitties. I fed this to my neighbor's cat during his go-round with pancreatitis on top of his lymphoma. I started with a little at a time......many times a day....then he'd eat some himself......and we continued until he'd eat a normal amount at usual meal times. My neighbor's vet had strongly suggested that with this ca'ts numerous medical conditions, he be put down. Well........that was 3 years ago. He still has some occasional vomiting issues......but by and large he's doing fabulous!
Have you tried to entice him with turkey slices from the deli?
Has your cat seen a specialist? It could be a digestion problem, where the cat struggles to keep food down. Your cat may not want to eat because it associates food with nausea and vomiting.
Well in our searches have some more cat food picked up at the store. Have Royal Canin actually ate the food last night and held it down through the night. This is huge! Now he was hungry yesterday during the day no can food in the house he like to eat. Gave him a little bit of dry, but Blue Buffalo and geld that down as well.
Well in our searches have some more cat food picked up at the store. Have Royal Canin actually ate the food last night and held it down through the night. This is huge! Now he was hungry yesterday during the day no can food in the house he like to eat. Gave him a little bit of dry, but Blue Buffalo and geld that down as well.
Yay! But, I'd not feed the dry.. Blue Buffalo or not. It is still high in carbs.......and carbs are bad for cats. They do cause intestinal upsets.
Apoligize for minute updates ha. Guess we found throw up last night, but just from crunchies it looks like. Did throw up a few minutes ago mostly yellow bile, which is better than the dark puke. Hopefully is stomach is upset due to previous food and just adjusting to the new food. Am keeping my fingers crossed.
I looked at ingredients that my cat was on in prescription food from the vets and if you look at yours, the horrible ingredients in it says it all. Look at the contents in yours, they are all horrible ingredients whether purina or hill's or the other one in all the Banfields. They add some gross stuff to it to get cats to eat it. Look it up. We put him on a food we have to get online that has meat minus all that horrible junk and he don't vomit anymore either. Pricy food but vet bills would be much more expensive! Don't let the vet try to sell you food because they don't know any better, they just listen to the food companies who sponser the colleges and equipment and whatnot.
" exactly the issue my brother's cat is having right now - pancreatitis, throwing up, losing weight, etc. They are giving him regular Vitamin B shots, anti-nausea pills, and prescription food. Only difference is, they say he eats everything they give him but he still doesn't gain weight, even when he's not throwing up (and right now he's skin and bones). "
Well, it's my brother's cat so I don't have the food to look at the ingredients - but what are you defining as "horrible ingredients"? Also not my place to tell my brother what to feed his cat unless he asks.
Apoligize for minute updates ha. Guess we found throw up last night, but just from crunchies it looks like. Did throw up a few minutes ago mostly yellow bile, which is better than the dark puke. Hopefully is stomach is upset due to previous food and just adjusting to the new food. Am keeping my fingers crossed.
ITA with the comment above and not feed dry at all.
Another food suggestion is canned Evo. It is 95% meat.
Someone else mentioned a raw diet, which is excellent for cats with digestive problems. There are many commercial diets if you don't want to make it yourself. I feed several brands of raw at our house. (The trouble may be getting your cat to eat it if he's not used to raw food.)
ITA with the comment above and not feed dry at all.
Another food suggestion is canned Evo. It is 95% meat.
Someone else mentioned a raw diet, which is excellent for cats with digestive problems. There are many commercial diets if you don't want to make it yourself. I feed several brands of raw at our house. (The trouble may be getting your cat to eat it if he's not used to raw food.)
I wouldn't do raw with this cat's pancreatic issues.
My FIP cats are doing well on some expensive cat food my vet sells. Stopped the vomiting. I can't remember the name and I transfer it to an air tight container so I don't have the vag. It has no chicken and the proteins have had some trestment. It costs $100/bag.
So cat did eat today no throw up. Came down 6 hour's later around moon time fed him another can. Then threw up shortly after and again 3 hours later. Think just ate too much.
So planning to give him 1 1/2 cans a day instead of 2 1/2 cans a day.
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