Originally posted by tuxluvr
In the past year, about every two months or so, Ritzy will snarf down a bunch of food, not chewing it very well, then urp it all back up---
LOL LOL urp it!

Yes! I guess I'm not the only one with one of these binging cats! LOL Marius has this very bad habit of gulping down everything then...urping it all back up. As long as everything is ok with your cat, I don't think it's anything to be too concerned about. I've tried several tactics with Marius, but he'll still do his binge and purge thing every now and then. I notice that it happens more frequently when we get home late and are behind in feeding time. He'll just wolf it down. But, we ended up switching from Iams (little pellets) to Nutro (bigger chunks) in hopes that the bigger pieces would force him to chew. It helped a little, but he'll still urp. Lately I've just been giving him a few kibbles at a time and if he keeps them down, I'll give him more.

emily_the_spoiled, what you explained about cats in the wild is most probably the reason some cats do that. I hadn't thought of it before! Thanks for posting that. You know, come to think of it, I sometimes have to wonder if Marius gulps his food like that because he was a starving bag of bones street cat when I got him, and he's never recovered from that trauma...so he feels he must gulp all of his food in case he doesn't get fed again!! ??