Sick kitty! Need advice!!!

[davsand]

Poor Chaucer kitty started puking early in the week. Nobody saw him do it, but Monday AM we found three puddles of non-digested cat food and yellow gritty fluid (like partially digested cat food). Cat acts FINE. He's playing and interacting with us--actively pissed that we are withholding his special kitty treats. Drinks a lot of water--but since I am worried about preventing dehydration I don't get terribly worked up about it.

Tuesday hubby works at home all day and the cat sleeps most of the day in "his" chair. Gives hubby a hard time because hubby refuses to give him treats and has taken the food bowl away. I give the cat some turkey baby food (a small amount) and some cooked ground turkey. There is no puking and cat acts fine.

Wed am cat is acting fine and I give him a small amount of his dry food. Go to work, come home and cat is fine. I give him a small amount of his dry food and he nibbles on it over night and it is gone this morning. I relented last night and gave him ONE cat treat before bed.

Today I leave for work and since the cat has not puked for a while, we give him back his food bowl with his regular food in it. I also give him two cat treats in observation of our regular morning ritual.

Hubby gets home around three and cat is fine. Hubby walks out to collect our kid from school and in 10 minutes time he's gone the cat pukes right inside the front door where hubby finds it immediately. Upon inspection, hubby locates a less fresh offering across the room.

Cat bowl is now put up and cat is restricted to water again. Cat still acts fine--he's mostly been laying in my lap this entire time and he just chased my daughter away because he hates it when she sits on HIS foot stool which is in front of the chair we've been sitting in. He's still begging for treats and seems mighty pissed to have no food bowl again.


Now, a few things to know:

He's an indoor cat exclusively.
He's 6 years old.
Neutered male
He weighs 14 lbs.
No hairballs have been observed.
We have not changed his foods or his treats--nothing new has been introduced to his diet that we know of.

We are in the middle of a freaking blizzard and will probably be snowbound for the next few days. I am scared that there is something serious here and I just can't figure out what it might be. A trip to vet is not happening for a day or two unless I harness up a dog sled.

I have NEVER had a cat do this before. I have lived with pukers before--they'd eat in a hurry then puke it back up--but that has not been his pattern. Similarly. he is a short hair and has not had problems with hairballs...

Any ideas from the wise cat lovers at DU? Ideas of what to do or what might be causing this?


Thanks!


Laura