Venting -- cat upchuck upset

[AmberLee]

Hey all,

Nothing important really, I just needed to vent (again). I do love my furbabies, but arrrrgh some cat habits annoy me so.

When I got home after a really rotten day at work and an even worse experience shopping, I found Cassy (of course) had had a problem. He'd not only upchucked on his fleece window perch, but down the side on the wall AND into their toy box. (It's an open white wicker basket.) It seemed to take forever to clean. Stuffed animals and foam balls aren't easy to clean.

The experience wasn't all loss, however. I didn't think the fur-kids ever put toys back into the basket, but while cleaning it out I found some hair scrunchies, one sock, and a screw that might be the one missing from the tv cabinet in the living room. I'd never put any of these in there, and really think that they must have. (I don't think a visitor would, do you?) Now, if I can get them to put their mice and other toys away, it will feel like a real accomplishment.

[4 feline house]

Poor Amber. If it makes you feel better, I will tell you that Pierre, a fat tux my mom used to have, would only barf if he was sitting on top of the VCR, which, of course, was on top of the TV, so it always cascaded down the front of the VCR, the TV, and onto the carpet below. He was also very careful to get the TV Guide, any tapes, and a remote or two if they happened to be on the TV, too. He did not do this just once, he did it REGULARLY!

[tatsxxx11]

Yes, yes, yes!!!! And Leah, just not down the FRONT of the TV....NO! Mine manage to aim their gift so that it flows right down INTO the back of the television! Time to get out the chopsticks, qtips, you know!!

[AmberLee]

YOW! Have I been lucky in the past!

Thanks for the education.

[zippy-kat]

Why is it that the sound of a cat puking can wake you up in the middle of the night from a dead sleep?! lol

[Heather Wallace]

Don't worry I have also experienced this problem to. My cat Max has a habit of being sick every now and again and yes it's when he sits on the TV. He loves it there as it gets warm. Just the same way he loves to sit on the washing machine when it gets hot. Anyway, he was sick down the back of the tv and it wouldn't work again after that. We had to take it apart and clean it all out. Not a noce job really.

[yorkster]

Well, I have 2 cats and 1 dog, so someone is always harking-up something.
Cat vomit is always a lot of fun to step on at night in the dark! And somehow the cats are much better than the dog at making sure that it's always on our light colored area rugs, and NOT the wood floor or better yet the linolium! I don't think any of my cats have ever harked-up anywhere that it was easy to clean.

[tatsxxx11]

Oh Tonya! Ain't THAT the truth. I can sleep through almost anything, including the phone ringing. BUT, that unmistakable sound could wake me from my grave. I actually bolt up and toss my kids off the bed in my sleep, knowing that otherwise, a wet, slimey sleep lay in store!

[Pam]

I have told this story on Pet Talk before but for those of you who may be new, here goes again. One morning I was in the living room and heard the sound of a hairball on the way up. I knew it was Trevor in an instant. As I walked toward the sound, there he was on the kitchen table, with a just delivered hairball right in the center of the table. I quickly cleaned it up and told no one so as to not gross anyone out when they went to eat breakfast! haha! To this day it's my little secret (which I just happened to share with the world! LOL!!)

[AvaJoy]

I thought I had become desensitized to cleaning up cat vomit thanks to Lily, even though she DOES make it to her litter box before heaving on occassion, but it is more the exception than the rule . . . cleaning vomit from off a shag rug is quite a challenge!

However, my stomach turned one evening when poor Debra threw up WORMS . . . . . . THREE times! I jumped on the internet and identified them to be roundworms, and the next day the vet concurred and we medicated. BUT . . that night I had made angel hair pasta for dinner and it was mighty tough getting it down. Identical.

[purrley]

Cat vomit is something I've lived with since I got Spencer the Vomit Cat From Hell, but last night I had a new experience. My new puppy Tess, likes to get in the litter box and grab the doo and eat it (disgusting), so when she's running around I try and keep the door to the cat room where the litter boxes are almost closed - enough so the puppy can't get in - well I forgot to open it wide and Spencer decided to grab a corner in my living room and left a big pile of the stinkest diaharrea ever. That's all I need with the new puppy. It took forever to clean and I know I'll never the get the smell out - Tess (the dog) will be able to smell that forever - I'm really upset about it - I've used Nature's Miracle on it along with a lot of other products, but I doubt the odor will ever come out Oh the joy of having animals.

[catwoman]

ROFL ... most puppies love kitty "tootsie rolls!"

[Former User]

oh my...aren't we lucky...Casper has puked twice and that's all... Kitty puked once, but she went to do it in the litterbox good girl!

[NoahsMommy]

Noah just upchucked last week...then decided to eat it!!! How gross is that?

[BigCharles]

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 …