I can sympathize and empathize here. Mine have been doing alot more barfing lately too. I have no doubt that it is the increased shedding! One of mine barfed up the biggest hairball I have ever seen .... almost the size of a newborn kitten!!! Unfortunately my cats don't like the hairball remedy, so I have to force it on them, and then it gets slung all over the house. So then I have barfed furballs and gooey brown molasses type stuff everywhere!