The reasons why British shorthair cats vomit are as follows:

1. Eating too much or too fast:

If a healthy cat eats too fast or Too much can cause vomiting. Some owners add many kinds of snacks to their cats every day during the feeding process, such as raw meat, sausages, animal liver, nuts, fruits, vegetables, etc. This will overburden the cat's gastrointestinal tract and cause vomiting. Especially when the cat vomits shortly after a meal and the vomit contains almost undigested food, it can basically be judged as eating too fast or too much.

2. Accidental ingestion of food:

Ingestion of spoiled food, toxins or foreign objects may cause cats to vomit. Cats will also experience varying degrees of vomiting after swallowing some protein foods that are difficult to digest and absorb, as well as some foreign bodies. In addition, cats can also vomit if they accidentally consume toxic substances such as antifreeze, human medications, toxic cleaners, insect sprays, weed and pest sprays in the home.

3. Food allergy:

Food allergy is also a common cause of vomiting in cats. If the cat has good behavior before, has a healthy weight, and does not look sick, but occasionally If you experience vomiting, food allergy should be considered as a possible cause. Corn and wheat are two of the most common allergens in cats, but they are often found on the ingredient lists of cats. But these ingredients are unnecessary in cat food because cats are carnivores and they don’t need grains of any kind to thrive.

4. Bacteria and viruses:

Cats may cause vomiting due to improper diet, causing certain bacterial and viral infections in the cat’s intestines or the production of gastrointestinal parasites. happened.

5. Chronic diseases:

Many chronic diseases can cause cats to frequently vomit in daily life, such as irritable bowel disease (gastritis, enteritis or colitis), pancreatic inflammation, chronic renal failure, feline diabetes, hyperthyroidism and fatty liver disease.

6. Swallowing hair balls:

Cats are born with the habit of licking their fur, so their coats are often licked into their stomachs, where they gradually form hair balls that reach a certain level. When the cat is large and small, it will produce enough stimulation to the gastric mucosa, reflexively causing the cat to vomit and spit out hair balls, which is a type of physiological vomiting in cats.