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Post by luci on Dec 8, 2008 14:51:31 GMT -5
I'm not even sure who it is aside from it being one of the cats. My guess is that it's Khina, but only because I witnessed one puke several days ago. It happened quite some time after her breakfast, but she urped up a sizable hunk of beef tongue, so I totally wrote that off as a nothing puke. But since then there have been three more pukes. Two of them were many hours after a meal (like 6-8 hours). One had a tiny piece of a plastic bag in it and a bit of fur. The fur was loose, not like a hairball. No undigested food, just whitish spit up. I brushed that one off as a throat irritation. Then there was some dried up puke on the rug. Nothing weird in it. Tiny little bone fragments and again a bit of loose fur. Then last night about an hour after we did our nightly hunt for treats someone puked up all the dehydrated lamb lung. And that's all it was. I'm baffled because everyone here is eating, pooping, playing hard, begging for attention. All the usual. Both cats look great, smell good, feel fine. I haven't been feeding them anything unusual though they hadn't had quail in quite some time, but the pukes started before that even. Yesterday I thought Gordie was gearing up to puke, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Actually, I'm going to have to go check the garage litter box to make sure he's pooped recently.
I don't know. Should I be worried? What do you think?
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Post by luci on Dec 9, 2008 16:34:39 GMT -5
No pukes yesterday. Everyone has had a daily poop. It's the usual circus around here.
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Post by luci on Jan 13, 2009 16:41:09 GMT -5
I think I will have to take beef lip and tongue off the menu for Khina. It always seems that more often than not there is some indigestible bit that she horks up many hours after her meal. Well... but what do you guys think? Today nine hours after her meal she puked up a quarter sized bit of undigested beef lip and some fur. Considering she ate a fairly decent sized piece should I worry about this bit that comes back up? Obviously her body knows to get rid of it instead of passing it down the other way, but if it always makes her puke I shouldn't give it to her, right? The other cat and the ferrets don't have this problem.
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Post by weloveourweasels on Jan 15, 2009 23:48:08 GMT -5
I'm going to have to say she has a beef intollerane. I found out cats can have that from a site that sells this powder stuff you add to raw meat for IBD and food allergy animals. It has a warning with products that have beef for cats "IMPORTANT Some cats throw up raw beef and beef liver powder very soon after eating. If you do not know your kitty can tolerate beef raw then I recommend you use only poultry until you test your cat with a piece of raw beef meat first. " www.felineinstincts.com/index.html
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Post by luci on Jan 16, 2009 5:31:08 GMT -5
I'd agree with that except for the fact that she does indeed eat other cuts of beef and beef liver without issue. The bits that she is throwing up are the tough skin of the tongue and the lip. I don't know how much experience anyone here has with hacking up cow tongue and lip, but the skin is almost like leather. Since she doesn't vomit until 6-8 hours after her meal it seems to me that it's an indigestible bit of skin rather than the meat itself. I suppose I could attempt to cut the skin off her servings, but DANG that stuff is squirmy!
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