Is my cat going to puke or die?

Capncrunch7

I've got a young but full grown tabby cat that has a bad habit of playing in the kitchen sink.

Usually cute, but unfortunately my mom left a can of tuna that had been sitting open in the fridge for a month in the sink. Lo and behold, he ate almost the entire can.

What should I do? He seems fine, but this was only an hour or two ago. He ate approximately the same quantity of tuna as I would feed him regular cat food, but this stuff was pretty nasty looking.

Do they make cat ipecac?

TheLawinator

Cat's tend to throw up whatever doesn't agree with them. At least my cat does.

EvilMuffin

Does your city have a 24 hour emergency vet? I think the cat would be fine, but just in case why don't you pull up there number and directions and be ready to go, stay up and keep an eye on him?

EliteLamer

I really doubt it is going to die from eating some bad food.

Taximes

TheLawinator wrote: »

Cat's tend to throw up whatever doesn't agree with them. At least my cat does.

My cats sometimes like to throw up things that did agree with them, just for fun. I think sometimes they like to see which will happen faster: I manage to clean it up, or they manage to eat it again.

In other words, cats are pretty resilient and yours will probably be fine. There's no reason to worry, especially if he's not acting abnormally.

Zsetrek

I don't know cats very well, but dogs can eat any old shit (sometimes literally) and come out fine. Human digestive systems are pretty frail, by comparison. I imagine that old tuna wouldn't do squat to a cat. If it was too off for him, he wouldn't have eaten it. And even if this was some seriously funky tuna, the chances of his death seem pretty low. Keep an eye on him and if he seems poorly, call a vet - but don't go into emergency damage-control just yet.

Unsolicited advice: Clean out your fridge more often.

Gabriel_Pitt

If the tuna was spoiled or otherwise highly hazardous or unhealthy to eat, than your cat probably would not have eaten the whole thing.

nizlopi

cats love tuna, your cat is probably having a good snooze thinking about how fantastic his/her find of sink tuna was!

Capncrunch7

Update: Cat spent the 6 hours following the tuna binge sleeping peacefully, then woke up and pestered me to be fed again. Thanks for keeping me calm.

Stupid cat.

EggyToast

Note, cats have a very short digestive tract and things that would make us hella sick (as mentioned above) are A-OK for cats. I mean, all their food is raw in the wild, and they eat some gross shit.

My cats LOVE, I mean, LOVE LOVE LOVE, raw chicken. If they smell it, or see the glint of the meat knife as I prepare to cut it, they go absolutely batshit insane and start trying to scale the kitchen island to get some. I, of course, always give them a little bit of raw chicken (not just fat), and never cooked.

Their morning diet is actually raw food nuggets, which is très bourgeois. Now, if I was eating raw meat my stomach wouldn't stop telling me what a bad idea it was for days, but for cats it's a pretty sweet deal. They're obligate carnivores and it's surprising what they can put down, as long as it's meat.

The only time my cat's puked is from overeating, where he ate some raw and then followed it up with a shitload of wet food (because the other cat wasn't on the raw yet). He barfed for about 10 minutes, all over the house, but was otherwise fine. I've also had some run in with cat diarrhea, thankfully not very much, but that was from giving them Frisky's wet food. If you can help it, don't give your cat cheap-ass food. Much better for their bodies, fur, health, and your sanity.

snap

fuck. all this talk about cats makes me wish I had one again.

some cats, by the way, throw up for no reason at all.

mts

i just got a kitten this morning. he melted our dog loving hearts. he is going to be a little hellion i think. just need to give him a name