It does sound as though it's food related. If he seems healthy otherwise, I'd be inclined to play with a change in diet.

My dog used to barf regularly and was eating one of the high quality dog foods. After changing brands he hasn't had an episode since. Your cat's problem could be either the dry or the wet food so you may have to do some test feedings. Does he eat mostly dry thru the day or does he hold out and wait for the wet food?
Try pureeing the canned food, since he wants to eat it so fast, or try a brand that is more of a pate.

BTW, more vets are recommending cats eat only wet food.

We let him graze during the day since he was so skinny after his bout with the distemper (he needed to get his weight up). He just seems to go nibble over the course of the day.

We also had him on some of the easily digestible wet and dry for a couple weeks after his bout with the FD. Tonight he got less canned and if he pukes tonight, tomorrow we'll feed him some of the easily digestible dry and wet to see if that helps. If things don't start to get better by Monday I guess he'll have to make another trip to the vet.

Thanks for the response.

1) try a different brand and flavor of canned food. 2) Feed much smaller amounts over a longer period. 3) give him a quarter pepcid AC (=2.5mg) daily for a few weeks... that might help a lot.

I gather he was not doing this until recently, so it might not be as food related as you think. A few weeks of cutting down his stomach acid might help a lot. I agree that cats should be exclusively on canned food, as much of a pain that is... but there are perhaps exceptions where that simply will not work. Good luck!

As for the coughing, that may be a sign of asthma.. some cats can cough so badly they puke. Rec: radiographs of the chest. Most severe asthma cases will show up on X-rays.

We cut back on his canned food by 1/2 and the barfing stopped. The cough went away about a week later after he fought off whatever bug he must have had.