Reddit reviews Catit Senses 2.0 Digger Interactive Cat Toy

If the diet doesn't work, I've heard good things about this feeder curbing over-eating.

My girlfriend's two cats go ballistic if there isn't food available at all times.

My cat eats til she pukes, too. To try and prevent that, we bought two puzzle feeders. My cat also tends to harass us until we go with her to monitor her eating.

Since we got the puzzle feeders, our cats eat a lot less food overall. But mine still needs a chaperone.

This is what worked for us. It really slows down their eating so they don’t stuff themselves. And my lazy fat one is too lazy to dig out more than she needs so she got to a healthy weight pretty fast. Also, we give them a can of wet food at night.

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I’ve accepted that my one cat is going to be perma-fat, because if I tried to ration her food she would 100% eat me in the night, after destroying the entire house

(However! My other cat really trimmed down just by getting one of these )

Definitely get your cat's teeth checked. Also, your cat might be eating too fast. I highly recommend trying a slow feeder/interactive feeder. There's all kinds of different types. Here's a link to one my friend uses (sorry I don't know how to format on mobile)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015P13QMM/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1484204812&sr=8-5&keywords=cat+feeder+puzzle

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Welcome back to the group! Sounds like you’ve been busy! What do you like most about being a lawyer?

This a cute cat toy/game I found, maybe your cat(s) would like it too. Cat Digger toy

No medical advice re the vomiting (tech here, not a vet!) but some suggestions for pacing out meals. I've heard of people having success with putting a solid plastic ball in the bowl with the kibble. Kitty has to eat around it and can slow things down. Some special food bowls have raised areas or ridges inside so he will have to work a bit more to get the food.

There are several kinds of treat balls that you can put food in. They usually have some kind of adjustment you can make in hole size so the kibble comes out faster or slower. You can start the holes big while kitty gets used to it and gradually make them smaller for him.

You can also buy a variety of other food dispensing toys like the CatIt Digger which he will have to work at to get food out of.

I also have a cat who would gobble down everything in sight without a breath in between if given the chance and now use a treat ball and the digger to give him his breakfast every day.

Your furball might like this! https://www.amazon.com/Catit-Senses-2-0-Digger-Cats/dp/B015P13QMM/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1467532138&sr=8-10&keywords=catit+senses

If you are feeding dry food, the cat may be eating too fast. Try something like this:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B015P13QMM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Which also makes eating fun for them. If you are feeding wet, feed less but more frequently.

Technically you can eat ants, but the Formic Acid will be bitter, and the ant can bite the tongue/mouth/esophagus. I second the suggestion you fix the ant problem.

Try providing wheat grass inside, near their bowls, so they won't eat random possibly poisonous plants outside. If you have a health food store nearby, they often sell little pint-size patches for about $2.

My cat did this - making up for lost time when her teeth were too sore to eat.

We had to switch to wet food for half of her diet and put the dry food in a game that slows her eating (there are several devices, we used this)

Try a free-feeding puzzle feeder. My cat got to a chonking 16 pounds (which is large for her size). We purchased a Catit puzzle feeder and she lost the weight in a few months. And she’s maintained herself at a perfect (for her) weight of 8.5 lbs for over 2 years now. Because my girl is a natural borne ✨Diva✨ my husband was against it at first, but it’s cheap, so...what’s to lose? I spent a couple minutes poking my fingers in and knocking bits down to show her the idea and she took to it like a fish to water. We now have a second one, of a different style and different maker, that we put elsewhere in the house and fill with a different flavor/type of food. Both my cats love them. The idea is to prevent them from easily eating too much when bored and to make eating more stimulating, like a hunt.

They can eat as much as they want for as long as they want, but they have to earn every last kibble of it. My (former) fat cat seemed to live in front of the feeder at first - knocking food down most of her waking hours. But now it’s just a few times a day, and maybe a single tablespoon’s worth of food at a time.

This is another Catit puzzle feeder. They also have a variety of puzzle feeder toys - if you’re OK with bits of kibble all over the house. This is just one example.

(We actually just had to put our former chonker on a special renal diet. (She’s 18). We picked her favorite puzzle feeder and changed just it to the new, specialty food and left the normal food in the other. My two girls haven’t had a stitch of trouble telling which is which. I think the only downside - as they see it - is that they’ve lost the diversity of two feeders. (According to the stuff I’ve read, they recommend multiple feeders spaced around the house to engage their instinct to search out food.) But I’ll be damned if I’m going to have multiples for each type of food spaced around the house. After all, there’s only so much room in my house.)

The other cat might benefit from a food dish that forces him to eat like scooper cat. I tried one of these for my puker (so I didn’t have to feed him 10 pieces of kibble at a time), but he hated it. THIS HOWEVER (1/4 cup size) works wonders (I just leave it on the floor, he knocks em out a few at a time. Super noisy, but it slows him down and I don’t have to monitor him)

How comfortable s she with touching her paws? I'd suggest soft paws if she's comfortable, or you could have the vet do it for you. They still allow cats to retract their claws, so they're humane, but they can't scratch up your apartment. I suggest this only because it seems so stressful & it's a quick fix for now.

For food, maybe a toy that forces your cat to play with it would fit her personality. Maybe a cat toy like this, or this? You'd have the problem of her knocking them around... but well, that's the point. It's meant to be enriching & fun for a cat like yours. You can put a food mat underneath it, so that when treats fall you don't have to worry about your floor getting dirty.

I don't have any advice for the water dish though, since you already switched it to a heavier one. Good luck!

I had one sorta like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015P13QMM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wRj0Cb1EHC25V

Then one of my cats learned how to pull the tubes out. Cheater.

We have a cat that eats too fast then vomits, and we got one of these to slow her down. https://www.amazon.com/Catit-Senses-2-0-Digger-Cats/dp/B015P13QMM It definitely helps, she has to pull each piece of food out with her paw. It took her a little while to figure it out, but now she's a pro. Still a little bit pukey but much, much better. I'm actually thinking of also buying another one made by the same company that is shaped like a tree, and alternating them every few months.

Would a slow feeder toy be a possibility? I let my cats forage food out of one and it's legit just sit and use one paw to get the food out.

This is pretty much my cat arsenal. Not sure if these will work with your man but figured i'd put them out there. I also buy cat sticks for them to chew on but usually you have to supervise them because big chunks get chewed off.

Links: Slow Feeder Toy Springs. Cat Wand. Wand Attachments. Wand Attachments 2. String Wand. Tower Feeder