Question:
I'd like to thank you for some advice you gave a couple of months ago in our newspaper. I had been having trouble with my 10-year-old cat vomiting almost every day, and because I rent, I was getting concerned about the carpet.
I tried several kinds of food, with no luck. Then I read your column in which someone was having the same problem, and you suggested the Wellness brand
. I practically ran to the pet store and bought some -- thank you! Since your column, my cat (Murphy) has vomited only a couple of times. The food might cost a little more, but it is so worth it!
D.T., Boynton Beach, FL Nov 14, 2011
Answer:
Many readers will appreciate your confirmation that switching to a better-quality cat food, free of corn and soy ingredients and various human food industry byproducts, can solve the problem for a cat who routinely vomits soon after eating. This can be a hit-and-miss process of trying different brands, because the cat most likely is allergic to one or more food ingredients that can be tricky to specifically identify.
Even though the larger pet food companies are coming out with more healthful formulations, I do not promote them. This is because the companies continue to market what I consider to be inferior pet foods that may pose unnecessary health risks; because they have consistently denied over the years any connection between health problems in dogs and cats and their manufactured foods; and because their pet foods continue to include genetically engineered or modified corn and soy ingredients. The safety of these genetically modified ingredients has never been verified and actually has been cast in doubt by several animal feeding trials. (For details, visit www.twobitdog.com/DrFox or see Dr. Jeffrey Smith's book "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
.")
Cats also regurgitate their food for other reasons, such as fur balls and more serious metabolic and other chronic diseases, some of which might have been prevented with good nutrition.
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