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Sammy update
It dawned on me that we used to have a Maine Coon resident here named
Sammy, but mine is a male, short for Samurai. Anyway, he's been throwing up something horrible lately. He started pretty much after California Natural discontinued cat food and I was forced to switch the dry everyone nibbles on. So I've switched twice now for the dry and now they get Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach, and the canned has always been Fancy Feast. Since he never seemed to have a problem with FF in the 2 years he's been my owner I didn't think it was that. But after switching 2x the dry food, I decided I can switch the wet he eats and got something that is duck and potato. He's had full blood workup within the last week and it is all completely normal including kidney function so vet said try again switching food. What a royal pain since CA Natural was one everyone agreed with. So purrs for Sammy please? Need to stop this vomiting! Poor kitty! He had a little break when TED gave me some antinausea med for him but it can't be used long term. Today after 4 days on the med and just 2 off, which worked like a charm, he threw up. Not as bad as some previous days where he'd throw up multiple times for hours. It is THAT BAD. Next step will be an internal medicine vet and for sure I'm not taking him to the one who nearly killed Shadow several times. Yeah, unfortunately she's still around and the one my regular vet refers all her clients to go to when they need a specialist. -- ღ.¸¸.✫*¨`*✶ Cheryl |
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On 12/8/2015 5:32 PM, Cheryl wrote:
It dawned on me that we used to have a Maine Coon resident here named Sammy, but mine is a male, short for Samurai. Anyway, he's been throwing up something horrible lately. He started pretty much after California Natural discontinued cat food and I was forced to switch the dry everyone nibbles on. So I've switched twice now for the dry and now they get Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach, and the canned has always been Fancy Feast. Since he never seemed to have a problem with FF in the 2 years he's been my owner I didn't think it was that. But after switching 2x the dry food, I decided I can switch the wet he eats and got something that is duck and potato. He's had full blood workup within the last week and it is all completely normal including kidney function so vet said try again switching food. What a royal pain since CA Natural was one everyone agreed with. So purrs for Sammy please? Need to stop this vomiting! Poor kitty! He had a little break when TED gave me some antinausea med for him but it can't be used long term. Today after 4 days on the med and just 2 off, which worked like a charm, he threw up. Not as bad as some previous days where he'd throw up multiple times for hours. It is THAT BAD. Next step will be an internal medicine vet and for sure I'm not taking him to the one who nearly killed Shadow several times. Yeah, unfortunately she's still around and the one my regular vet refers all her clients to go to when they need a specialist. Purrs for Sammy's stomach to settle. |
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On 12/8/2015 5:54 PM, Cheryl wrote:
Joy Wrote in message: Purrs for Sammy's stomach to settle. Thank you Joy. I need to find out if we can just do either a sonogram or a biopsy but I have a feeling they're going to want both. *sigh* Loving these little critters can bring us a lot of worry and expense, but they're worth it. |
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On 12/8/2015 7:32 PM, Cheryl wrote:
It dawned on me that we used to have a Maine Coon resident here named Sammy, but mine is a male, short for Samurai. Anyway, he's been throwing up something horrible lately. He started pretty much after California Natural discontinued cat food and I was forced to switch the dry everyone nibbles on. So I've switched twice now for the dry and now they get Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach, and the canned has always been Fancy Feast. Since he never seemed to have a problem with FF in the 2 years he's been my owner I didn't think it was that. But after switching 2x the dry food, I decided I can switch the wet he eats and got something that is duck and potato. He's had full blood workup within the last week and it is all completely normal including kidney function so vet said try again switching food. What a royal pain since CA Natural was one everyone agreed with. So purrs for Sammy please? Need to stop this vomiting! Poor kitty! He had a little break when TED gave me some antinausea med for him but it can't be used long term. Today after 4 days on the med and just 2 off, which worked like a charm, he threw up. Not as bad as some previous days where he'd throw up multiple times for hours. It is THAT BAD. Next step will be an internal medicine vet and for sure I'm not taking him to the one who nearly killed Shadow several times. Yeah, unfortunately she's still around and the one my regular vet refers all her clients to go to when they need a specialist. Selina has that same problem, and it occurs with every food (canned only) I have tried. She seems to be in perfect health otherwise, but she throws up approximately 2x per week. It is always about 15-30 minutes after eating, and it is semi-digested food (never any fur balls). After that, she eats normally for the rest of the day and does not have any problems. The one thing that helped Selina--even though it has not stopped it completely--was when I changed to 3 meals per day instead of 2 meals. The total quantity is the same, just smaller meals. Have you ever tried that? Good luck with Sammy! MaryL |
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On 12/12/2015 10:55 AM, Judith Latham wrote:
Purrs and prayers being sent for poor Sammy. Thanks Judith. He's still throwing up a little, and we definitely need to be more aggressive figuring out what is wrong with him. But he is throwing up maybe once a day instead. I've been trying canned food with limited ingredients and made for easy digestion to see if that helps. I'm hoping we can make it until after Christmas and then make some specialist appointments. -- ღ.¸¸.✫*¨`*✶ Cheryl |
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On 12/8/2015 8:32 PM, Cheryl wrote:
It dawned on me that we used to have a Maine Coon resident here named Sammy, but mine is a male, short for Samurai. Anyway, he's been throwing up something horrible lately. He started pretty much after California Natural discontinued cat food and I was forced to switch the dry everyone nibbles on. So I've switched twice now for the dry and now they get Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach, and the canned has always been Fancy Feast. Since he never seemed to have a problem with FF in the 2 years he's been my owner I didn't think it was that. But after switching 2x the dry food, I decided I can switch the wet he eats and got something that is duck and potato. He's had full blood workup within the last week and it is all completely normal including kidney function so vet said try again switching food. What a royal pain since CA Natural was one everyone agreed with. So purrs for Sammy please? Need to stop this vomiting! Poor kitty! He had a little break when TED gave me some antinausea med for him but it can't be used long term. Today after 4 days on the med and just 2 off, which worked like a charm, he threw up. Not as bad as some previous days where he'd throw up multiple times for hours. It is THAT BAD. Next step will be an internal medicine vet and for sure I'm not taking him to the one who nearly killed Shadow several times. Yeah, unfortunately she's still around and the one my regular vet refers all her clients to go to when they need a specialist. Purrs for Sammy Samurai, absolutely! And, this is not a query directed towards you, Cheryl, just a question in general. I don't understand how people with multiple cats can regulate feeding different types of food. Without segregating the cats, I mean. When I used to cat sit for my neighbor she'd tell me this cat gets this much of this food, the other cat gets that food. But they both ate in the same room. How was I supposed to know whether or not they were nipping into each others food bowls? "Cat sitting" didn't mean I was there watching them all day long. It has always been a mystery to me: how do you keep the other cats from eating the other food? Jill |
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On 12/12/2015 6:41 PM, jmcquown wrote:
When I used to cat sit for my neighbor she'd tell me this cat gets this much of this food, the other cat gets that food. But they both ate in the same room. How was I supposed to know whether or not they were nipping into each others food bowls? "Cat sitting" didn't mean I was there watching them all day long. It has always been a mystery to me: how do you keep the other cats from eating the other food? Short answer, you can't. I have this discussion with the vet every time she says to try a diet trial. Even recently Scarlett was restricted to canned food only because she had 2 teeth removed, and there was a lot of infection cut out during surgery so dry food would not just be hard to eat, but could get in the wound and cause infection. I had to keep her in my room at night and shoo her from the dry food at breakfast and dinner because I didn't want to have to close her out all day every day for 2 weeks. It was nearly impossible and if I wasn't able to work from home I'm not sure I could have done it. As it was, she was very mad at me for not letting her have crunchy food. She acted like she thought I hated her. She made it through and she healed. Not to say she didn't sneak a kibble every now and then but she made it through. For longer term and limited to just one food I'm not sure how to do it other than put the bowl of food under Sammy when he decides to switch to another bowl. They have been eating the canned food mostly in one sitting these days because I've cut back, and offer more if they want it. So the canned I don't want him to eat isn't sitting out. -- ღ.¸¸.✫*¨`*✶ Cheryl |
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On 12/12/2015 5:41 PM, jmcquown wrote:
And, this is not a query directed towards you, Cheryl, just a question in general. I don't understand how people with multiple cats can regulate feeding different types of food. Without segregating the cats, I mean. When I used to cat sit for my neighbor she'd tell me this cat gets this much of this food, the other cat gets that food. But they both ate in the same room. How was I supposed to know whether or not they were nipping into each others food bowls? "Cat sitting" didn't mean I was there watching them all day long. It has always been a mystery to me: how do you keep the other cats from eating the other food? Jill Quite honestly, I have always found that impossible. I have 3 cats, and none of them finish a meal at one "sitting." They will eat part of their food and then return later. So, I could segregate one (as you said) on a temporary basis, but otherwise find it impossible to use different food for individual cats. I can medicate individual cats, but it isn't practical (for me) to put out different food for one cat. MaryL |
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On 12/13/2015 12:56 AM, MaryL wrote:
On 12/12/2015 5:41 PM, jmcquown wrote: And, this is not a query directed towards you, Cheryl, just a question in general. I don't understand how people with multiple cats can regulate feeding different types of food. Without segregating the cats, I mean. When I used to cat sit for my neighbor she'd tell me this cat gets this much of this food, the other cat gets that food. But they both ate in the same room. How was I supposed to know whether or not they were nipping into each others food bowls? "Cat sitting" didn't mean I was there watching them all day long. It has always been a mystery to me: how do you keep the other cats from eating the other food? Jill Quite honestly, I have always found that impossible. I have 3 cats, and none of them finish a meal at one "sitting." They will eat part of their food and then return later. So, I could segregate one (as you said) on a temporary basis, but otherwise find it impossible to use different food for individual cats. I can medicate individual cats, but it isn't practical (for me) to put out different food for one cat. MaryL I think the only way you could do it would be to feed them all at a specific time, shutting each in a separate room until they were through eating. This wouldn't work for a grazer, of course. joy |
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On 12/13/2015 2:06 PM, Joy wrote:
On 12/13/2015 12:56 AM, MaryL wrote: On 12/12/2015 5:41 PM, jmcquown wrote: And, this is not a query directed towards you, Cheryl, just a question in general. I don't understand how people with multiple cats can regulate feeding different types of food. Without segregating the cats, I mean. When I used to cat sit for my neighbor she'd tell me this cat gets this much of this food, the other cat gets that food. But they both ate in the same room. How was I supposed to know whether or not they were nipping into each others food bowls? "Cat sitting" didn't mean I was there watching them all day long. It has always been a mystery to me: how do you keep the other cats from eating the other food? Jill Quite honestly, I have always found that impossible. I have 3 cats, and none of them finish a meal at one "sitting." They will eat part of their food and then return later. So, I could segregate one (as you said) on a temporary basis, but otherwise find it impossible to use different food for individual cats. I can medicate individual cats, but it isn't practical (for me) to put out different food for one cat. MaryL I think the only way you could do it would be to feed them all at a specific time, shutting each in a separate room until they were through eating. This wouldn't work for a grazer, of course. joy This definitely would not work for me. I have a lot of back pain and also have vertigo (most of the time), so it is already difficult for me to feed the three cats and clean their litter boxes. I have to take a great deal of care when bending down for those tasks, so carrying their food to separate rooms (and back to clean the bowls) would be almost impossible. In addition, none of the cats finish eating on a schedule. MaryL |
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