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Anonymous
Hey /an/, I've had a persistent problem for a while that two separate vets have been no help with.

Basically, my cat never gains any weight, and she vomits fairly often.

I was convinced she had a tapeworm, but the first vet denied it stating her only problem was eat mites and that it was good she was skinny as they can develop health problems if they get fat. I took him at his word, and treated her for the ear mites. He told me the vomiting was likely just from feeding her different foods, but since then I always feed her the exact same things (canned tuna and fancy feast dry food) and she still throws up.

Eventually a segment of a tapeworm fell out of her, and while it was still wriggling around, I put it in a ziploc back, and took her to a new vet. He also said she was in good health, and echoed the statement that her vomiting was probably no big deal. However, seeing the tapeworm segment, he agreed to give her a series of shots, and gave me a cream to squeeze onto her neck to kill off any internal parasites. She's had no fleas or signs of parasites since, but...

She still vomits regularly, and never gains weight. She's very finicky and won't eat very much. and if she eats more than a handful of anything at one time she throws it right back up. I'd just gotten used to cleaning it up, but today she puked twice. The first time with some dry food in it, the second time seemingly just bile.

What's wrong with my cat /an/? Are the vets wrong, or am I worrying too much?

Picture thematically related, but not of my cat.
>> Anonymous
The tapeworm probably isn't anything to worry about unless it's a really large infestation. Also, you shouldn't feed your cat a lot of tuna. If they become addicted to it they may stop eating regular food and tuna is not nutritionally complete for them.
>> Anonymous
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typical wormsign. Get a deworming treatment.
your vets sound like idiots.
>> Anonymous
It's pretty uncool to have a worm infested pet ya know. Catching that shit yourself is not that hard.
>> canttouchthis !AB5fTSvpY6
i don't want to alarm you, but my cat threw up like that for ages,and in the end we found out she had cancer in her stomach.if it goes on for any real length of time id suggest blood test and xrays
>> Anonymous
My cats all throw up when they eat a large amount of tuna. And by 'large amount' I mean anything more than a morsel every few days. So definitely not a good idea as a main source of nutrition.
>> Anonymous
Your cat has bulimia. :(
>> Anon
Ah, you wouldn't happen to live in northern West Virginia would you? Your vets sound like our retards.
Tapeworms generally produce no symptoms in healthy animals. It's when you have a heavy infestation that you see anemia, vomitting, diarrhea, etc. You will have to search hard, but there are OTC treatments for tapeworms. Normal wormer will not work.
It seems to have been going on for a while, so I'm going to assume it isn't a foreign body stuck in her throat. And I going to assume you're intelligent enough to know a hairball when you see it. Though I'd rec getting some hairball remedy into her just in case.
The cat could have a sensitive stomach. Tuna is known for having a lot of parasites in it. Chemicals too. I'd take her off of that, give her a good worming.
How bad was her earmite infection? Sometimes they can damage the inner ear and cause vertigo.
Has she been tested for kitty leaukemia (pardon spelling freaking early in the morning) or anything else? My aunt's cat had it and he had the habit of throwing up a lot.
>> Anonymous
possibly a stomach tumor? check for lumps. My dog had one and vomited relegularly. he still lived till he was ten tho and seemed comfortabel enough
>> Anonymous
OP here. It's nothing that I'm feeding her. I haven't given her any tuna today. She had been asleep on the edge of my bed for a few hours. She got up, and as she reached the hallway, vomitted orange fluid, and what looked kind of like meat, but not like any I've given her. I'd say hairballs, but they were brown, and she has white and gray fur.

Then as she went into the litterbox, she vomitted up some more orange fluid.

I'm going to set up an appointment with another vet. I guess it'll have to be one out of town. What should I ask for this time? How can I be sure I'll get a vet who knows what they're doing?
>> Bob
take her back to the first vet, with a bag of that orange shit, when he opens his mouth, throw the vomit at him and ask if its normal.
>> MiMi
You should never give your cat tuna on any sort of a regular basis. Excusable is the tuna 'water' (never if it is in oil) left over from eating the tuna yourself - and again, not on a regular basis.

Fancy Feast dry food, while deemed nutritionally complete, is a crap food. Yes, some cats can live and thrive on it, but any cat that has allergies, or just a generally uneasy digestive system will not do well on those foods.

How old is your cat? How long ago did this vomiting problem start?

Finding a competent vet in your area would be the first good thing to do. The second, regardless of what this next vet tells you, is to get your cat on a much healthier brand of food. Try something like Blue Buffalo, Nutro Natural Choice, Innova, or By Nature. You want to avoid ingredients such as corn, wheat, soy, or beef. Rice is all right, and brown rice better still. Avoid by-products of any kind, and "whole deboned chicken" is better than "chicken meal" of any kind.

When the things that enter the body are wholesome, and appropriate for species (ie; felines do not naturally consume corn) and age, the body's fluctuations will mellow out, and your cat's digestive issues will begin to lessen.

Try to take some of the vomited fluids to a vet for testing. If they think it isn't necessary, find a vet who will test it anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>273275
how often does she vomit? It might just be normal? Waht color is the food you give her? The orange might just be a reflection of mushed up cat food.
>> Spazmastic
Maybe control the food intake?

My one cat eats and steals like there no tomorrow and he vomits because he doesn't chew his food. So we started feeding him 1/2 a can twice a day and a small amount of dry food and kept away from the other cats during feeding time. And he did stop vomiting and gained some weight but he still loves to steal food.

Maybe your cat eats to fast and doesn't chew?

Or try a different type of cat food and see how that goes. :/
>> Anonymous
>>273327
I read the end as
>Or try a different kind of cat
>> Anonymous
five bucks says it dies. if it doesnt, ill pay up
if does, you'd better man, this is a contract
>> Anonymous
>>273290
What's the problem with tuna?
>> Anonymous
>>273351
It's made of DOLPHINS which are TOXIC to cats
>> Anonymous
Lol Kitty-bulimia.
>> Anonymous
OP again.

Nothing I give her is orange. She doesn't generally have much of an appetite. She eats very little throughout the day. She's very well behaved, and only shows interest in the dry food and tuna -and occasionally these Temptations treats, but I haven't given her those in a while.

Someone mentioned the tuna water. I actually have three cats, and I divide it into three portions on separate plates, giving her the smallest portion with the water, as she generally just drinks the water around the tuna, and doesn't eat much of the meat. Mashing the meat up with the water is the only way to get her to eat much of the meat. The only thing other than that she consumes is water, which I change daily.

It's not stress from the other cats, because part of the reason I kept them was in an effort to cheer her up, and she has been very cheerful and happy with their company. They always sleep piled with each other. They never vomit, and have very healthy appetites though.

I didn't know tuna wasn't good for cats, it's pretty much the only thing I can offer them that they're always interested in. I should cut back on that? Would once a week be fine? Because I had been giving them a can a day as a treat.

What's better than fancy feast? I tried giving my cat Science Diet once, but she wouldn't eat it. I slowly introduced it at first, but she just ate her old food, and ignored the science diet. As I introduced more, she just ate less and less until she just wouldn't touch her bowl, so I went back to Fancy Feast. It's the dry food she'll eat the most of. Maybe because the morsels are small?
>> Anonymous
your cat is bulemic, it was probably molested by an older relative or aquaintance. get it counseling.