Cat people...suggestions please.

[katymatey*]

Son and partner have an 8 month old cat. She vomits most meals up and has done for most of her life. She is a small cat, but fit and playful. They have had her to the vet many times, she is there now. Every diet suggested has not made a difference. Last night she vomited her meal, and a lot of bright red blood. 😞 Maybe an ulcer?

What I would like to know is if anyone has had the same problem, and is the answer to feed her cooked chicken and nothing else? This seems to be something she can keep down in small amounts. Would giving her pet milk before her meal to coat her stomach help? 

On the vet's table looking not very impressed. 🙂

[bright.ton42]

Yes that makes sense about the worms.  .  Something I hadn't known either.  After my little dog vomited blood about a month ago and he came home from hospital   I put him on fresh cooked chicken and rice and he just loved it.  Now he won't eat any food unless fresh chicken is mixed up with it., lol, little bogger.    

[flashie*]

I hope the little cat makes a full recovery.

Our old cat Silly Tilly did that once to us..............vomiting blood..............works out she had eaten an ear plug she had found somewhere.

She had to have a bowel resection done to retrieve the ear plug.

She made a full recovery..............never cured her of eating strange things though.

During her recovery she had to eat cooked chicken with cottage cheese and an egg yolk mixed...........(this was about 15 years ago though)

[nevillesdaughter]

If you need Taurine and are friendly with your local butcher, ask him/her to save the bloody liquid when they open up the cryo-vac packs that meat comes in. It's a great source of other  nutrients as well as a very good appetite stimulant and the animals love it. I used to drop off a clean glass jar at the butcher and he'd fill it up over the next day or so and I'd collect the full jar and drop off a new clean one and so on.....

You can also get Taurine tablets from a chemist but they need to be crushed up and added to food, and they're nowhere near as appetizing.....

Prawns are also a good source of protein, but you need to get ones that haven't been treated with the chemical that makes them nice and pink (that is usually added on the trawler - and nobody on the boats worries too much about dosages!), so if you can get bait prawns you should be right. They're usually smaller and don't lokk anywhere near as nice, so they don't bother treating them with the pink goop!

Of course, please check with the vet before adding these things to a sick animals diet...

Cheers,

Marina.

[katymatey*]

Thank you Marina.xx I have never hard of Taurine. The cryo vac fluid sounds like a good idea. I do have a butcher very close by, so will ask if they can save some of the fluids. Will make sure it is ok with the vet though.