My Bengal is 8. She's been on raw chicken her whole life. I buy food online and have it shipped, currently using a company called AllProvide. She's been on this brand for about 3 years. Prior to that was RadCat. She's always been somewhat of a puker. She'd throw up maybe once every couple weeks. Maybe even only once a month at times. Due to some bad circumstances last month we had to switch her food cold turkey. (shipping issues, timing etc..) so I bought another commercially available food that had similar ingredients (chicken, bones, organs, supplements etc...). She started puking every 3-4 days. Then ramped up to where it was every night for a few nights. Finally got her AllProvide food back in and switched back to that. Still puking every night. So after a few nights took her to the vet. They did xrays, bloodwork, and an ultrasound and found nothing obviously wrong. Said maybe we should look into an endoscopy and possibly exploratory surgery! I said to hold off since the timing with the new food and all.
So now a week and a half she's been back on her normal brand and still puking but not as much. Was every 1.5 days, but now hasn't puked in 3 days. She's always done this thing when her tummy is empty (mainly in mornings) where she licks her lips and kinda like chews on air, and this is how i know a puke is coming. So the last couple days I've been feeding her many smaller meals throughout the day, even woke up at night to feed her some! It seems to be helping but she still seems like she wants to puke sometimes. She does the salivating / chewing thing during the day now, which she never did previously. I immediately give her food when i see this. It seems to stop it at the time but makes her prone to puking later that day, like once she hits a point, its coming out at some point in the day. She's 9 lbs and eats about 4oz per day. Maybe I'm not feeding her enough? Or maybe there is something else wrong? Or maybe it's the food?
It's just so hard to pinpoint if she has an allergy to any ingredients in this food. Allprovide does put some weird things in it but she's been on it for years and never puked this much. I'm wondering if its the remnants from switching foods still? Or something else? Just looking for any input or support as I'm stressed and scared by all her issues.
Also I am going to look into grinding our own food but need to do a ton more research. I feel I can add less supplements here and maybe she'd do better on that? I just worry she wouldn't eat it and then get herself sicker than she is now.
Sorry for such a long post. I'm just on edge lately and the vet hasn't helped my anxiety.
So now a week and a half she's been back on her normal brand and still puking but not as much. Was every 1.5 days, but now hasn't puked in 3 days. She's always done this thing when her tummy is empty (mainly in mornings) where she licks her lips and kinda like chews on air, and this is how i know a puke is coming. So the last couple days I've been feeding her many smaller meals throughout the day, even woke up at night to feed her some! It seems to be helping but she still seems like she wants to puke sometimes. She does the salivating / chewing thing during the day now, which she never did previously. I immediately give her food when i see this. It seems to stop it at the time but makes her prone to puking later that day, like once she hits a point, its coming out at some point in the day. She's 9 lbs and eats about 4oz per day. Maybe I'm not feeding her enough? Or maybe there is something else wrong? Or maybe it's the food?
It's just so hard to pinpoint if she has an allergy to any ingredients in this food. Allprovide does put some weird things in it but she's been on it for years and never puked this much. I'm wondering if its the remnants from switching foods still? Or something else? Just looking for any input or support as I'm stressed and scared by all her issues.
Also I am going to look into grinding our own food but need to do a ton more research. I feel I can add less supplements here and maybe she'd do better on that? I just worry she wouldn't eat it and then get herself sicker than she is now.
Sorry for such a long post. I'm just on edge lately and the vet hasn't helped my anxiety.