Typically, the cause of a cat excessively vomiting is furballs. Below are a few tips to reduce or completely resolve this issue.

Here are 8 easy tips.

1. Brush the cat daily, you need a proper cat comb for this. It has very fine, soft, metallic ‘bristles’. As the assistant at the pet shop to make sure you buy the correct one. This type of comb does not hurt the cat at all, and it removes the shedding fur most effectively.

2. Put plenty of fresh water down. Buy a large water bowl, or use an old serving bowl of your own. I find that the cats drink more if the bowl is “in their face”. If we were going away for the night I rarely came back to any cat vomit needing cleaning up, and then realized it was because I would fill a large bowl of water to the top (rather their usual small one) when we were not going to be home.

3. Another tip is to keep changing this bowl for a different bowl – they have to check it out!

4. Buy a tube of cat fur ball remover that is added to their food. This is usually a malt extract mixed with oil. Put a squirt (as per directions) into their food.

5. A teaspoon of olive oil in their food. Cats typically like olive oil.

6. If you are feeding them dry food only, you may want to consider switching to a wet food for at least one of their meals. Tip – add a couple of tablespoons of water, and or a teaspoon of olive oil, to their wet food meal.

7. Before throwing away chicken, turkey carcasses, simmer them in just enough water to cover them for about 45 minutes and the strain the stock into a bowl, cool and refrigerate. The stock will form into a jelly and then can be added to food. This will increase their liquid in take.

8. Some cat foods now exist that actually state they reduce furballs, and they probably do, as they contain more fiber.

With most of these tips, the idea is to prevent the furball in the first place and keep the cat’s digestion running smoothly.

Keep an eye on your cat, if they regularly get furballs as they can cause a dangerous blockage in their system.