This is a five year old Maine Coon that eats (gorges, actually) then hunkers down and starts hacking a dozen or so times then vomits. This is usually within 5 minutes of finishing her meals, although I've seen her go as long as ten minutes. The odd thing is that she isn't loosing weight.

* She is, of course, a long hair, but is brushed daily.

* I've tried limiting her meals to very small amounts of food, rationing it over the course of the day. This prevents the gorging, but not always the vomiting.

* Use the Purina Hairball formula dry cat food. Her vet gave her this expensive version of the same thing which didn't work any better than the Purina. This is about all I can feed her, moist meaty meals come up much faster and messier and put down permanent stains on my carpet.

* Use Haartz hairball remedy daily, which seems to help some, although she would like to take issue with the company concerning the alleged salmon flavoring.

* I grow grass indoors for her, which also seems to help at times, but not always.

My concerns for her long term health is that the frequent vomiting will cause cardiac problems and erode her teeth and upper digestive tract. I'm at my wits end with this, as I don't know how to help her and I cannot afford to keep paying for expensive test. I've already run through a battery of tests which indicate she is perfectly healthy. I'm also tired of cleaning up vomit from a champagne colored carpet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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