Does anyone else's cat respond by trying to gag with Eukanuba's Indoor Weight Control Hairball Relief?

Question

I thought my cat was sick but I think he's just feeling sick from this food. Anyone know of a similar tastier product their cat enjoys?

Answer 1

could be the food.  your cat should be on a premium, natural food which eukanuba is not.  try Wellness Indoor Cat.  

Answer 2

It sounds like your cat really doesn't like this food.  Go back to your vet and purchase MD Diet kibble, and use a hairball preventative like Lactone (a tasty gel).  The OM is yummy to cats, and my overweight cats have lost weight successfully.  

Answer 3

I'm biting my tongue.....biting my tongue...  All joking aside, I would call your vet.  I don't think that's a normal response to any cat food no matter how bad it is.

Drooling isn't a good thing either.  Call the vet.

Now to the food.  Eukanuba is c**p.  And they've sold you a real bag of goods!  Indoor, weight control and hairball relief?  Yikes!

You need to know that those labels are just marketing.  They have no real meaning.  Please examine the ingredients.  Garbage!  Way too much corn.  "Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Chicken Liver, Corn Grits, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Fish Meal (source of fish oil), Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Powdered Cellulose, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E, and Citric Acid), Brewers Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, DL-Methionine, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiam...."

Please find a better food.  You don't need diet food and you don't want hairball food - it's unhealthy.  And to get a cat to lose weight eating cereal requires you to put him on starvation rations.

Please consider this plan instead.  It includes links to better foods along with a weight loss plan:  http://runeamok.multiply.com/journal/ite...

And for hairballs:

Fish oil:

Only Natural Pet Icelandic Salmon Oil (pump) (http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/products/O...

Good for hairballs, good for skin and coat.

Selection: You typically won't use human fish oils - at least not the ones in liquid form - because they have added citrus flavors to many of them. You don't want to use cod liver oil - at least not on a very regular basis - because it has too much vitamin a. Plain old fish oil or salmon oil is best. I prefer it in liquid form as opposed to capsules for ease of dispensing. You want it to say that they've done everything possible to remove mercury. I prefer one with the fewest additives, especially not rosemary. Or propyllgallate.

For ease of use, I prefer to buy it in liquid form in a squeeze bottle or pump.

Dosage: I give a squirt every day. It's not measured but probably comes to somewhere around 1/4 tsp.

Answer 4

I have never heard of the happening but I do not feed my Cat Eukanuba.  We use Iams weight and hairball control formula.  It is fantastic, and definitly does the trick in the hairball department.

Answer 5

Give your cat regular food and give him an oral gel that you can rub on his paw or tongue (my fav brand is hartz) he will l**k it off and consume it.

This really helped my male cat with hairballs. A couple pea-sized doses and he hasn't had a hairball in months.