The person who told you that a change in formula won't affect the cat is an idiot. A pet food employee should (and probably does) know better.
A vet will tell you (I'm sure, as I was told) that any change in a cat's diet will make that cat vomit for a variable amount of time. As will an added stress. Or an illness.
I would guess that the combination of New Cat and New Food is doing a number on your baby. But, if it keeps up, look for professional help. (Well, more professional than me.) Excessive vomiting does lead to dehydration, which can lead to various organ failure (especially if it is an illness, as apposed to the other, more obvious choices).
When Dru began getting sick constantly, I was told to avoid the cat foods with lots of dye listed in the ingredients (that takes out almost everything affordable at your average grocery store - but not everything, check the listings on each). The vet and the pet stores will, of course, have a wider variety of specialty foods (low on allergens or sodium or recommended for older cats, etc.). But, every time you try a new cat food, you have to expect some of the vomiting afterward to be due to the change (and not necessarily the food itself). :/
I tried everything under the sun. The Science Diet and Prescription Diet stuff usually worked the best (when I could get them to eat it at all) - but it's the most expensive (one found only in the pet stores, the other, only at the vet). And those brands are all tailor made for specific problems. (One cat of mine needed the low sodium formula for her high blood pressure and the other needed the chock full o' nutrients formula for her general lack of digestive ability - I relied on the vet to give me those details. But having two cats with different problems kinda nullifies the buying of two specific foods, unless you have a way of keeping them from each others' bowls.)
Make sure he has lots of water available and hug him a lot? (And find him a low-dye-content wet food that you don't let him overeat.) And maybe after a few weeks he'll settle down some. (I'm afraid there's really no way past the stress of an unwelcome room-mate. He'll either get used to the new guy in his own time or he won't. With any luck, when it gets cold he'll come to appreciate another warm body.)
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:42 am (UTC)A vet will tell you (I'm sure, as I was told) that any change in a cat's diet will make that cat vomit for a variable amount of time. As will an added stress. Or an illness.
I would guess that the combination of New Cat and New Food is doing a number on your baby. But, if it keeps up, look for professional help. (Well, more professional than me.) Excessive vomiting does lead to dehydration, which can lead to various organ failure (especially if it is an illness, as apposed to the other, more obvious choices).
When Dru began getting sick constantly, I was told to avoid the cat foods with lots of dye listed in the ingredients (that takes out almost everything affordable at your average grocery store - but not everything, check the listings on each). The vet and the pet stores will, of course, have a wider variety of specialty foods (low on allergens or sodium or recommended for older cats, etc.). But, every time you try a new cat food, you have to expect some of the vomiting afterward to be due to the change (and not necessarily the food itself). :/
I tried everything under the sun. The Science Diet and Prescription Diet stuff usually worked the best (when I could get them to eat it at all) - but it's the most expensive (one found only in the pet stores, the other, only at the vet). And those brands are all tailor made for specific problems. (One cat of mine needed the low sodium formula for her high blood pressure and the other needed the chock full o' nutrients formula for her general lack of digestive ability - I relied on the vet to give me those details. But having two cats with different problems kinda nullifies the buying of two specific foods, unless you have a way of keeping them from each others' bowls.)
Make sure he has lots of water available and hug him a lot? (And find him a low-dye-content wet food that you don't let him overeat.) And maybe after a few weeks he'll settle down some. (I'm afraid there's really no way past the stress of an unwelcome room-mate. He'll either get used to the new guy in his own time or he won't. With any luck, when it gets cold he'll come to appreciate another warm body.)