Conference misery::feline_v1

3488.0. "The first HAIRBALL of Spring???? help?" by CSC32::K_KINNEY () Tue Apr 03 1990 19:52

    
    
    	My ace mouse catcher and the joy of my life is acting
    	wierd and I was wondering if this might just be hairballs?
    
    	For a few days now (close to a week) she has been eating
    	at her dry cat food (out all day in a bowl for her). She
    	gets either IAMS or PRO-PLAN from the vets. However, she
    	is picking less and less at that and even though she acts
    	hungry for her canned food at night (she comes to the kitchen
    	and acts all cute and gets all excited about the can opening),
    	when I put it down for her, she acts like it is some kind
    	of cat-eating monster and wants to go outside. She cringes
    	back from it, won't get near it and wants out. I throw it
    	away every morning. I was in the grocery store Saturday
    	and selected small cans of different things I could maybe
    	tempt her with. No dice.
    
    	Last night (for the first time), she went into the front 
    	hall and meowed real loud and then proceeded (when I went
    	to see what was the matter cause she never does that) to
    	barf on the wood floor. It was just grass and fluid. 
    	Suspecting hairballs (HOPING hairballs I think) I got her
    	some Laxatone and put it on a little plate. She jumped right
    	on that. Later last night, she made that little coughing sound
    	they make when they are trying to "blow" a hairball out?
    
    	She still plays (we were playing with a robe sash) pretty well
    	and she really loves to get picked up and held a lot. She seems
    	hungry for the canned stuff but...
    
    	Any ideas? Am I being neurotic here? Do we go to the vet NOW
    	or give it a couple days with the Laxatone?
    
    			Kim and the Nipper (who hates to go to the vet)
    

    my cats go through that every now and then with their food I think they
    call it finicky :). My vet also said that they will eat grass if they
    have an upset stomach which my cats do and toss up spit with grass.
    They also do cough up hair on occassion.
    
    kevin (the person) Sebastian,Jake,Elwood,Iggy,Rocky,Bullwinkle,and
    Scrappy. Ya 7. I enjoy reading this conference but this is the first
    chance I have had to write, I'll tell the gang when I wake them at
    2:00am, thats when I get home and it is the only chance I have to get
    even with them for waking me to play at night. :)

    My gang has been "off their feed" too and I know they're having trouble
    with furballs.  
    
    re: grass - While that may be true, they also eat grass because they
    want it in their diets.  My crew love to "graze" on their leashes and
    they don't throw it up.
      Nancy DC

    
    
    	Thanks. I think that's what it is. General wierdness
    	and hairballs. She ate some of her dry stuff this
    	morning but I needed to pour some fresh out of her
    	sack (while she watched) and then fluff it up in
    	her bowl. fussy, fussy, fussy.  *8^}
    
    						kim