Hey Everyone! Newbie with a question here...
Our 2 year old male DSH, Buddha, is very affectionate and when not napping or playing with our other cat, he very much desires our attention. He will climb up on whatever he can reach to get your attention (the couch, bed, computer desk, counter top) and rub himself all over us and lick our hands, etc.
The problem is that Buddha has taken to regurgitating his food. It only happens when one or both of us is home AND no one is paying attention to him. For example, If I'm cooking and my wife is studying for her graduate exams, and we haven't spend 5 or 10 minutes with him, we might hear his food coming up.
He's never done it when we're not home, except this past Saturday when I kept coming in and out of the apartment for several trips of carrying laundry from the laundry room and he had coughed it up on the mat by the front door.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Our cats eat Purina One hard food (and have since they were old enough to eat it).
This has been going on for a few months now, and when I buy Purina One Sensitive System Formula, it seems to lessen the problem, but maybe not all the way... I have to try it more...
Any suggestions? Are we just stressing him out by not giving him the attention he wants? Tonight I've been holding him (he likes to be held like a baby) for a few minutes every time I come back in the apartment and he's looking for attention. So far, so good for tonight.
HELP!!!
Our 2 year old male DSH, Buddha, is very affectionate and when not napping or playing with our other cat, he very much desires our attention. He will climb up on whatever he can reach to get your attention (the couch, bed, computer desk, counter top) and rub himself all over us and lick our hands, etc.
The problem is that Buddha has taken to regurgitating his food. It only happens when one or both of us is home AND no one is paying attention to him. For example, If I'm cooking and my wife is studying for her graduate exams, and we haven't spend 5 or 10 minutes with him, we might hear his food coming up.
He's never done it when we're not home, except this past Saturday when I kept coming in and out of the apartment for several trips of carrying laundry from the laundry room and he had coughed it up on the mat by the front door.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Our cats eat Purina One hard food (and have since they were old enough to eat it).
This has been going on for a few months now, and when I buy Purina One Sensitive System Formula, it seems to lessen the problem, but maybe not all the way... I have to try it more...
Any suggestions? Are we just stressing him out by not giving him the attention he wants? Tonight I've been holding him (he likes to be held like a baby) for a few minutes every time I come back in the apartment and he's looking for attention. So far, so good for tonight.
HELP!!!