I love my cats, but...

[cjsmith]

It must have been Duchess horking last night, because while I was out at dinner Little Girl threw up in the pile of cat toys and just now Jackie let loose all over a brand-new jigsaw puzzle. While I ran to clean that, Jackie also got the hallway in two places and the carpet once. (This leaves about eight more to go for her normal pattern. Most of those will be small.)

I am officially tired of this.

Um, this should go without saying, but please don't give advice unless you know my cats or their environment. If you do, though, I'm listening.

Comments

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much I want to be silly and catty right now, but oddly enough, no cat puke jokes are coming to mind.

So I shall close this comment with a murmur of durn it for you and shout of BOOGERS!

Because boogers are inherently funny.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

CAT boogers! I suppose even those are inherently funnier than cat bile.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

I can't believe that Casey and Andy haven't invented some sort of Stop Cat Barf o-matic. Though it would probably result in your house catching on fire.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If it resulted in THEIR house catching on fire it would be kind of funny.

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

At least there are no shrew parts in your cats' vomit.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

True dat! My sympathies on that score!

[platypus]

I can't help, but you can borrow my icon :P

I'm very lucky -- Moly and Toeffe only rarely throw up. I've no idea how a cat who grooms as obsessively as Moly avoids having hairballs.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Excellent icon! That would be a good crankyshorts icon as well. :-)

I've never before had seriously pukey cats. My twenty-one-year-old groomed like crazy and almost never puked. Dizzy and Critter and Pirate very rarely threw up. These three though, Jackie in particular -- yikes! It's enough to make a person get goldfish instead.

[perfect-autumn.livejournal.com]

Ahh, cat vomit. How we struggle as well.

Simba vomits almost daily. I'm convinced he's anorexic. The vets have no more suggestions left.

I have nothing useful to say, just um... yeah, me too. Sucks. Good luck.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

What sorts of things did your vet suggest? Mine hasn't been very helpful. I'm switching soon, so maybe I'll get some good info from the next one.

Good luck with Simba. Hope he is like mine seem to be: pukey but otherwise just fine.

[sharya.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

LoL The way you described it, it almost sounds like the cats are sympathy puking with each other :P

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's crazy, isn't it? Jackie at least had a hairball. Maybe they all coordinate the timing of their hairballs just to make me go nuts.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I never claimed to know the cats we had when I was younger, much less anyone else's. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Good point, there. (I just wanted to discourage slightly the "Have You Tried Plugging It In?" contingent.)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that is annoying. I'm assuming she horked on the puzzle pieces themselves, not just on the box?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Of course. Once a puzzle piece has gotten wet it's really never the same. I did catch it quickly, though, so if I wanted to I could do this puzzle again.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Time to start the horking shuffle. Walk around with a newspaper or a towel and watch your kitties walk backwards!

I've never figured out a way to stop my kitty from puking, but the only way I find it is to step in it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

BWAHA! I do this with Jackie when she's in one of her rounds of a dozen. (She runs away from herself, though, so it's just as entertaining without me.) As soon as she backs herself into a room with linoleum I shut her in there until she's done.

It is rather unfortunate that the stuff is carpet-colored, isn't it? Maybe I need bright blue carpets.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Been there, done that. Got tired of it. Kept loving the kitty anyway...

(Do keep an eye on her weight, though...)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Very tired of it. *sigh*. I suppose I'm safe on one count: these kitties are all overweight. They're not puking up all their nutrition!

this is NOT advice.

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

This is NOT advice. That should become very obvious.

I have had barfie kitties and non-barfie kitties.
I do think some are just barf-prone.
I give them hairball medicine, even the non-barfie ones.
They like it!

Almost all cats I've lived with have food available all
of the time. I do not know if this causes slower eating.

Re: this is NOT advice.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mine like hairball medicine too. It seems to do nothing at all to their barfiness, but they like eating it.

Until recently mine have had food available all the time too. I would not be surprised if it causes slower eating. However, mine (with one exception) are egregiously overweight. The vet says I should ration their food. I'm trying... but it might be better to have fat cats than to have them puking all the time! :-(

[kateo.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sympathy. We recently switched cat foods (from Science Diet Adult Hairball Control to Solid Gold Katz N Flocken) and we did it gradually and all, but ever since they switched, they've been puking like a bulemic with a stomach flu. So we're switching them back and hoping it helps, but jeez. I've never cleaned up so much puke in my life. It can stop ANY time now.

And puke-covered puzzle pieces? Just ick.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Isn't that insane? I have tried a couple of "hairball control formula" foods, and every one I've tried has resulted in dramatic increases in barfiness. It's enough to make a person shove the little furballs out the door and holler "go catch mice then!"

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

No advice, but a comic you might enjoy about another cat named "The Duchess".

(http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF097ADAquarium.html)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Waaaah! They drownded her! :-(