That Purina dry food has lots of soy and corn in various forms they could be causing problems. I think your strategy of moving to all grain-free foods, with more wet food, is good. She strongly recommended only grain-free wet foods, which was how we were planning to feed them anyway. Joking aside, though, if your cat is a Siamese mix, there's apparently a greater possibility that he has some sort of food sensitivity: our current two cats are Siamese mixes and one of the first things the vet told us when we adopted them was that they tend toward having gastric issues. I don't know why cats seem to like off-white carpet so much! We saw a lot of this, too, also on off-white carpet. Lots of Cat Site members have cats various food sensitivities so I'm sure you'll get more responses if you add more details! (Here's an article that links to some other articles I've found helpful.) Brooksie's vets also recommended hairball remedies but they didn't help only later did I learn that hairballs are not normal and usually indicate a bigger problem. Feeding her a grain-free diet helped, taking fish out of that, too, seemed to help a little more in her last weeks and months. (We think she lived to be about 17 though aren't sure.) She had all sorts of ailments, including IBD, which caused her all sorts of gastric distress. Our previous cat was a regurgitator in her senior years. She also has a tendency to eat too fast and regurgitate: we feed her small meals that aren't mounded on her plate. Two things seem to have resolved that problem: taking potato out of her diet (I think it bothered her stomach) and making sure she has plenty to eat at (our) bedtime so her stomach never gets too empty before she's fed in the morning. I ask because we've dealt with both types: one of our cats used to vomit clear, yellowish, frothy liquid toward morning. Is your cat vomiting up clear or frothy liquid? Or is he regurgitating food that's still identifiable? Or even both? And is this happening soon after he eats or at some time later, during night, when you're asleep, presumably long after he's eaten? Since the problem could be food-related, it might also be helpful to know exactly what your cat has been eating, including the treats.
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