Is it a one-off hairball, or is your cat throwing up more than it should? PetHealthLog lets you log each episode with a time stamp, see how many times per week it is happening, and note whether it was a hairball, food or bile - so a slow drift from occasional to frequent shows up as a pattern instead of a guess. Free, no account, works offline.
Start tracking - it's freeThere is a widely held idea that cats just throw up sometimes and it is nothing to worry about. Vets tend to push back on that: a healthy cat should rarely be sick, and "occasional" has a habit of quietly becoming twice a week without anyone keeping score. As a rough guide, many vets suggest a cat vomiting more than about once a week, or in any regular pattern, is worth a look.
The trouble is memory. When the vet asks "how often does this happen?", the honest answer is usually a shrug - you cleaned up a few times this month but couldn't say if it was three or seven. And the difference between three and seven is exactly the difference between a hairball habit and a pattern worth investigating.
PetHealthLog is free, asks for no account and works offline, so every episode gets a time stamp the moment you find it. The weekly frequency is right there, the pattern is visible, and you arrive at the vet with a count instead of a shrug.
A vomiting log only helps if it is quick to tap when you find the mess and turns scattered episodes into a frequency you can read. Here is how PetHealthLog handles both.
One tap records an episode with the time and date, so you never have to count from memory again. Even the easy-to-dismiss hairballs land on the timeline, where they add up into a real picture.
The tracker shows episodes per week and over the month, so the once-a-week line vets often mention is something you can actually check against rather than estimate. A gradual increase becomes obvious instead of invisible.
Tag each episode - hairball, undigested food, yellow bile, clear foam, or any blood. These distinctions help a vet tell a grooming-related habit from food coming back up too fast, and they are exactly the details that slip your mind by the next appointment.
Frequent vomiting matters more when a cat also goes off its food or starts drinking differently. Logging appetite and water next to the episodes means a worrying combination stands out rather than hiding in separate corners of your memory.
Export a clean PDF of the episodes, their frequency, the notes and the appetite record. The visit starts from a real timeline of how often and what came up, which is far more useful than "fairly often, I think."
General guidance from veterinary sources - when in doubt, call. The tracker helps you spot these, it does not decide them.
Some recurring vomiting in long-haired and heavy-shedding cats really is hairballs, and that is one pattern owners try to ease at home before it becomes a frequent thing. The everyday tools for it are a hairball-control paste or treat, a deshedding brush to take loose fur off before it gets swallowed, and a slow-feeder bowl for the cats who eat too fast and bring the meal straight back up.
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You find these episodes at random - first thing in the morning, on the stairs, behind the sofa. The moment you find one is the moment to log it, and a login screen or a dead signal is exactly the friction that makes you think "I'll add it later" and then forget.
PetHealthLog stores everything locally on your device. There is no account to create, nothing is uploaded to a server, and there is no tracking. It opens instantly, lets you tap in an episode or check the weekly count whether or not you are online, and keeps the data yours. You can export a backup any time and restore it on another phone.
Free, offline, and ready the moment you open it.
Start with PetHealthLogNausea can bring on drooling. Track drooling episodes alongside the vomiting pattern.
Vomiting and going off food often travel together. Log refused meals and watch the hours since your cat last ate alongside the vomiting count.
If hairballs turn out to be the pattern, track the control paste and brushing routine and watch whether the episodes ease off.
Keep an eye on how much your cat is drinking - a change alongside vomiting is one of the combinations worth noticing.
Frequent vomiting can come with slow weight loss. Track the weight over time so a trend shows up clearly.
For cats whose vet has raised inflammatory bowel disease, track the diet trial and the vomiting and stool pattern together.