Conference misery::feline_v1

    It could be that the Musetta's system can't tolerate Iams. My twins
    can't either, although they do well on Science Diet or C/D.
    
    Deb

    Hi Helen,
    
    When one of my cats seems to be having a spell of vomiting I do
    one or combination of the following things.  They seem to help.
    
    
    1) Treat for furballs.  I use Petromalt.
    
    2) Stop feeding the cat his regular food for a day or so and 
       substitute strained chicken baby food.  Doesn't take much for 
       them to digest that so it is easy on their tummy.
    
    3) Cook some ground beef, drain off as much fat as possible and mix 
       with cooked rice, about 2 parts rice for every part beef.
    
    4) Try changing food.
    
    I hope this or others can help you.
    
    Joe
    

    Aja occasionally tosses her cookies. I generally watch her behavior;
    if she's acting normal, I hold my breath and clean it up, if she's
    outta sorts, off to the vet...
    
    It doesn't take long to figure out when the cat is *really* sick.
    
    I'd try changing food to something she doesn't like too much. Aja
    just inhales her favorite hearts and liver, 2 minutes later it's
    back for an encore... Giving her some blase' old dry food slows
    her down...
    
    Edd

    I have been having the same problem with my tortoise shell male
    siamese.  As long as he eats nothing but IAMS kitten food, he seems
    to be o.k., but try to give him any kind of a treat, and I get cleaning
    duty!!  I tried giving him something for hairballs thinking that
    might be a problem and yes, another clean-up job!!!
    
    I'm not sure if it is because he is a glutten and gobbles up anything
    different or if he has a real problem.  I gave him a little juice
    from a can of white tuna in water and that came back to haunt me!
    The vet was very emphatic that whatever I decide to feed, I should
    be constant; that changing food can cause diarrhea and he did have
    a problem with that when I first got him and he got used to the
    IAMS.  He had been fed grocery store dry and wet cat food, along
    with milk.
    
    I also have a female seal point who has never seemed to have any
    problems with losing her cookies, but I think she was fed very
    carefully by the family she came from.  And, of course, I have a
    husband who likes cats as long as they are very well-behaved and
    heaven forbid they should act like animals (please keep that a secret;
    my babies don't know they are animals!)!  Any time they do anything
    wrong, I get chewed out for having them!  It's almost as if I told
    them to do it.  I get phone calls in the middle of the day if Samson
    should happen to lose his cookies; if the two of them run through
    the house, like maniacs; or if Delilah decides to climb up on his
    neck while he is reading and give him one of her "love kisses"!
    No appreciation of how wonderful they are!
    
    Sure would love to find an answer to these stomach problems.
    
    Bev
    

    Try this...First get the vet to give you a clean bill of health.
    He may give you a jar of 'VIOKASE' which is an enzyme to help digest
    the food.  Or, you can use Papya Enzyme in the food, the enzyme
    predigests the food, so when kitty eats, it gets digested again
    and is easier on his system.
    
    Gai Poo does this off and on.  He cannot eat organ meats, anything
    with gravy and sauce and no fish.  When he does start to vomit again
    for no reason, he gets the Viokase or the enzymes...
    
    jean
    

    The simple solution is, of course, to only feed the IAMs.  If they
    only vomit after treats, then don't give them treats.  It's fun
    to give them, but they don't need it.  
    
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.

    The problem I had with my vomiting male siamese seems to be a little
    better.  He has always been fed IAMS.  I had only been feeding him
    twice a day and it seemed like almost every time he ate, he gave
    it back.  Finally decided that maybe he was getting hungry between
    meals and was eating too fast.  
    
    Now I make sure that his dish is never empty, and so far, it seems
    to have helped.  (Except when he finds some strange thing to chew!!!
    I can't wait until a Christmas tree arrives!)
    
    

    re:7
    
    The IAMS may be too rich (too much fat) for him to handle.
    Have you tried feeding something with less fat?