Badness is barfing..

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Badness is barfing..
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Fri, 05-14-2004 - 12:32pm

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Registered: 09-30-2001
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 1:50pm

Bridgett,


If it has been going on a couple of days please take her to the vet.


I knw that this is a bad time and message for me to reply to, but with Itchy fresh in my mind... 2 years ago Itchy was barfing up every day. He then stopped eating and I have to feed him by hand a slurry I made. After a month of intensive tests, xrays, barium gi testgs ans such we found the stricture in his intestine and had it removed. That was his cancer. Since I now second guess all my decisions on when I took him to the vet and why... I would take Badness in to be safe. WHy wait? Something simple can be dealt with right away and he will feel better the sooner.


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Registered: 12-01-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 3:02pm
I hope she is better,with the loss of Itchy and Tiger we need everyone to stay healthy!

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Registered: 06-10-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 3:11pm

You guys are scaring me to death.

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 3:22pm
Just trying to make you feel a little better, but shedding during the springtime is a natural thing for dogs and cats. They are getting rid of their winter coats. This even happens for indoor-only cats. Perhaps, and this is just a theory, Badness is going through a normal springtime shed, and it is more emphasized by stress from the move. The vomitting could be due to the excess shedding. Is there hair in her vomit? Even just a tiny bit can cause a cat to cough up.

I'm hoping all goes well at the vet. Keep us posted!



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Registered: 06-10-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 3:34pm

Yes there is hair in her vomit.

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 3:58pm
It's good that there is hair in the vomit - I would be more concerned if there wasn't! My Tasha sheds an awful lot, but has since I've had her. She was coughing up hairballs every other day, and the Hartz hairball remedy did diddly squat to help her. Then I started feeding her treats from the vet, called Medi-Treats, that contain ingredients to help cats pass their hair rather than chuck it up. Since then, the hairballs have been reduced dramatically. Like, probably to less than 5% the old frequency. The best part, these treats are safe on her strict FLUTD diet.

But it never hurts to get a cat checked out when their normal behaviour changes. If she is otherwise acting normal, then I doubt it's a blockage. Cats are great at hiding stuff, but a blockage will make them very listless. Let us know what happens at the vet!



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Registered: 06-10-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 4:12pm
Poor Badness, her anniversary present is going to be a trip to the vet.
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Registered: 01-05-2004
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 5:33pm
hiya bridgett~

sometimes my daisy will throw up twice a day and then it will be weeks before she does it again. i don't know if this has been addressed yet but when my daisy throws up its because she's eaten too fast. its all undigested food. sometimes this'll happen: she'll eat and then start running around like a maniac. i know what comes after this!

i think because daisy has shorter hair that she doesn't have hair balls- in fact i've never seen one. even when she throws up there's no hair. but daisy'll make up for this. she'll leave me a "present" on clean sheets. the weirdest place she even left one of these is in my word processor. she was sitting on my desk and turned around and out it came. i can laugh about it now. lol

~pink~

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 5:34pm

I hope it's just a hair ball. Since Badness is so fluffy and she is eating and doing everything normal


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Registered: 06-10-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 5:44pm

How nice.

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