There is an old anecdote about cats being able to throw up several times their own weight. Lamoni, the twenty pound cat, is only up to 41-percent.

You'd think that being dizzy would make a cat throw up. Fifi has grown to like my making her spin around in circles chasing the LASER dot. I get her going in such tight circles that her nose is on one side of the dot and the tip of her tail is on the other side. Now STOP and reverse direction. She tries to follow but all four feet don't seem to be on the ground after the turn. She flops over and still tries to chase the dot. Feet and legs still flailing in the air, she reminds me of one of those old metal wind-up dolls that has fallen over.

No, being dizzy does not make her throw up. Hours later while she is cleaning herself and remembers being dizzy, then …