Ah, good I was hoping for an update before I left this morning. I don't have a clue (seems I had an opinion after all)about the excess drinking, but my theory is that something in her feline brain is telling her if she fills her belly it will make it feel better. I've read that cats who feel nausea will sometimes act very hungry, because they mistake the sick tummy feeling for hunger pangs. So I wonder, if she was having a bad tum, she hoped the water would help, and then kept spitting the water back up. Now that the med is finally leaving her system she is no longer spitting it up and on her way to recovery. And yes, I also think the delay in feeding may have sparked the cycle. Hunger pangs and sick tummy all rolled into one.
Also, maybe on an instinctive level, the water drinking is a way to flush her system? That may be a bit far fetched but never underestimate an animal's ability to help herself!
Makes sense to me anyway.
by the way, didn't mean to dismiss your side comments about Lucky, and hesitating over the vet. I completely understand that, and as you know I am the same way with Mazy. It takes A LOT to cause me to take Mazy cat to the vet.
Some people I would advise the vet right away or "first thing in the morning" But people I know, like you, people whom I know they know what they are doing and how to read their pets, I am more wiling to wait it out with.
Gotta go! Hike today!
xxx