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I've been attempting to switch my 10mo old cat over to a raw food diet for the past couple of months, but keep running into some issues. It was suggested by members of the Raw Feeding forum to post my kitty Z's issues here to see if anyone had any suggestions/opinions on what could be going on with my furball.
A little background: Z was switched from a canned/dry diet a week after I got her at the beginning of March to a solely canned diet from March to early May. From then on, I started transitioning her to a raw diet (as per Dr. Pierson's recipe on catinfo.org minus the partial bake): fed her raw chunks to get her used to it, then gradually mixed in more raw into her canned food until it was 100% raw.
She does fabulously and seems to really like the raw food, but within 2-3 weeks or so of being on 100% raw food, she starts to vomit 2 or so hours after eating. If I try and just introduce canned back into the raw food, she still vomits. If I go back to nothing but canned, she's perfectly fine. The raw food is fed slightly warmed, I don't leave it down for more than 45min, and she's never really showed an aversion to the food to say that something is off. She's never vomited with any other food and her shelter file has nothing about dietary/digestive issues. All of her canned food has always been some kind of poultry and mostly chicken flavored, some with fish meal in the ingredients list, so I'm not sure it's any kind of sensitivity.
She's been to the vet several times now over this, but my vet is a) old school and thinks I'm overreacting, b) doesn't agree with a raw diet, and c) is the only vet within a 20min distance that I can afford. She had a full workup done back in March when I first got her (blood work, urinalysis, etc) and everything was perfect. She has an appointment for this coming Tuesday (same practice, different vet) due to a daredevil leap off a cabinet that's causing her to be a little stiff, so I'll be asking for a more thorough exam for any digestive problems, but I can't think of anything that would cause her to have these issues to ask for some kind of test to be done if they don't offer it right off.
A little background: Z was switched from a canned/dry diet a week after I got her at the beginning of March to a solely canned diet from March to early May. From then on, I started transitioning her to a raw diet (as per Dr. Pierson's recipe on catinfo.org minus the partial bake): fed her raw chunks to get her used to it, then gradually mixed in more raw into her canned food until it was 100% raw.
She does fabulously and seems to really like the raw food, but within 2-3 weeks or so of being on 100% raw food, she starts to vomit 2 or so hours after eating. If I try and just introduce canned back into the raw food, she still vomits. If I go back to nothing but canned, she's perfectly fine. The raw food is fed slightly warmed, I don't leave it down for more than 45min, and she's never really showed an aversion to the food to say that something is off. She's never vomited with any other food and her shelter file has nothing about dietary/digestive issues. All of her canned food has always been some kind of poultry and mostly chicken flavored, some with fish meal in the ingredients list, so I'm not sure it's any kind of sensitivity.
She's been to the vet several times now over this, but my vet is a) old school and thinks I'm overreacting, b) doesn't agree with a raw diet, and c) is the only vet within a 20min distance that I can afford. She had a full workup done back in March when I first got her (blood work, urinalysis, etc) and everything was perfect. She has an appointment for this coming Tuesday (same practice, different vet) due to a daredevil leap off a cabinet that's causing her to be a little stiff, so I'll be asking for a more thorough exam for any digestive problems, but I can't think of anything that would cause her to have these issues to ask for some kind of test to be done if they don't offer it right off.