Why don't cats ever, EVER, toss a hairball on linoleum?

[krispos42]

My roomie's cat, 12 inches from acres of linoleum in the kitchen, wharfed on the carpet.

And my fluffy cat ALWAYS does it on the carpet as well!

Argh!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. yeah or on the fucking laptop

[krispos42]

3. Oh, man, I can't imagine how that happened! n/t

[Bunny]

2. Oh sure. Like *you* wouldn't do the exact same thing.

:eyes:


j/k! They do always manage to yack in the worst possible place, don't they? :D

[krispos42]

4. I'm not sure if it's better or worse to find it a few days later

After it's solidified.

[Bunny]

6. Well, if "finding" it means stepping in it, then I think it's better after

a couple of days go by. Stepping in fresh cat yack is one of life's little treats, isn't it?

[krispos42]

7. Especially if you don't realize it for a few steps... ugh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. I can't decide whether it's ickier to step in it

when it's cold or when it's warm.

:puke:

[ceile]

5. If they do it on the bed or carpet

they get get more street "cred" from the other cats. It's a cat thing, you wouldn't understand.
:evilgrin:

[krispos42]

8. Like those squirrels in that car insurance commercial? :-)

[Kajsa]

10. LOL!

Especially if they do it on clean fresh sheets/pillowcases.

That's 50 points in the kittyhood.

[Critters2]

9. Mine prefers to do it on either the kitchen counter or the dining room table

That way, we can both enjoy a little nausea together.

[krispos42]

11. At least it's not absorbent :-)

Well, it's off to work for me!

[Polly Hennessey]

43. Cat Yuck

Mine always does it on the dining room table -- especially if the table runner is clean or new. Rugs must have a special appeal for cats, if you pick them up and put them on the tile floor they never throw up, plus clean bedding is a favorite one too.

[Love Bug]

12. 20 minutes after my sister had new carpet installed,

one of her cats harfed up a hairball on it. Cat was lucky it ran and hid.

[montanto]

13. they know better than that,

first thing they teach 'em in kat klass.

[idgiehkt]

14. yep

true here too.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ChickMagic]

15. It's their gig

It's not nice in your shoe either. One of our cats honks more than any other creature on earth. It's like living in a frat house.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Sorry to be laughing hysterically

I so feel your pain!

[supernova]

17. Me too

I'm sitting in Panera Bread and people are starting to stare. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[sakabatou]

18. Because

They secretly know you'd lose.

[krispos42]

26. Beretta 96? n/t

[lizziegrace]

19. Windowsills

and the back of an upholstered chair. :eyes:

[SOteric]

20. You left out 'in a comfy slipper.'

[lizziegrace]

22. That's true!

And my bed pillow. Ewwww....

[krispos42]

27. Oh, my roomie's cat pees on the slippers

My cat (female) has absolute bladder and bowel control. She's been accidently trapped underneath a couch in excess of 12 hours without any accidents. Routinely trapped. You might say she's a slow learner with respect to NOT sleeping under the sofa when I have the footrest up.

But nary a drop.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. It is a basic Cat Rule.

You must never hurl on anything that is easy to clean up, like a tile or linoleum floor. You must yack only on or in one of the following:

Shoes.

Bedding, especially satin pillowcases.

Carpeting, preferably shag or genuine Persian. Plain white or beige is good, too. Note also that carpeted areas where a human will probably step on your puke barefoot are especially favored.

Upholstered furniture.

The dining room table -- and make a special effort to blow lunch on the dining room table after it has been set for a formal dinner.

(The Cat Rule of Vomit is second in importance only to the Cat Rule of Bathrooms, which provides that no human may ever remain in a bathroom for more than two minutes unless accompanied by at least one cat.)

[krispos42]

29. You get a full two minutes?

Wow. I get about 20 seconds before the door bumps open.

[Robeson]

30. That is all so true! You did forget one thing....

...the heirloom quilt. They must always hurl on that, too!...:rofl:

[mike_c]

42. the cat rule of bathrooms....

Oh man, mine RUN from other parts of the house when they hear the toilet lid go up.

[Rue]

23. Could be worse.

Could have hocked a hairLOOGIE on the carpet like my cat did a couple of months ago.

Wow, that was annoying to clean up.

[graywarrior]

25. Mine starts heaving, looks at me and moves off the tile onto the carpet.

I tried picking him up once and he projectile vomited all over everything.

[krispos42]

28. Ewww, yuck

I grabbed the get-the-hell-off-the-counter squirt bottle and tried to get him to move, but I only got off two squirts before he got off one. At least it was small.

[Qanisqineq]

32. LOL

Thanks, I needed the laugh. Haven't smiled in days.

I live in an apartment that is all hardwood floors. One room has a rug in it. So, my three cats either throw up on the bed or on the one rug. Disgusting!

[AirmensMom]

31. It's one of their rules ...

Number 3, I think:

You must always yack on something that is difficult to clean, even if you have to walk across the room to get there.


:shrug:

[riona]

41. And location is important..

a cat must to choose the primary traffic areas for the fastest possible human response. Why go to all that trouble without sharing?

[nuxvomica]

33. They do sometimes. My cat did just this past weekend.

Is there something wrong with him? Should I take him to the vet?

[lizziegrace]

34. I've chased mine around

with a magazine or newspaper trying to get it under their face when they're heaving. The turn just at the very last second and do it on the carpet anyway. :(

[nuxvomica]

36. They instinctively prefer to ralph on the grass, not the leaves

:rofl:

[krispos42]

38. Well, that makes as much sense as anything else! :-) n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

35. It's A Conspiracy

My dog told me. He was eavesdropping on the kitties. He's the sensei and they were talking during homework time. He heard them laughing about the plan. All the cats know it.
The Professor

[raccoon]

37. See also --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6238000#6241102

[MorningGlow]

39. We have a 2,100 sq. ft. house

ALL hardwoods, except for one 9 x 12 area rug in the living room, and two 3 x 4 mats--one inside the front door, and one inside the side door. GUESS where our three fuzzballs hork their hairballs or undigested food that was eaten too quickly. I swear, if they feel a ralph coming on and they're upstairs in the back bedroom, they make a point of descending to the lower level and seeking out a rug.

Good thing they're cute or I'd turn them all into hats.

[lizziegrace]

40. About the undigested food

try spreading it out in a single layer on a cookie sheet or a pie pan. It forces them to eat slower. My cats are finally gacking less. :eyes:

[MorningGlow]

45. I only wish that would work!

Our male cat has gum problems and so tends to not chew his food very well. We try to keep him in mushy food, because that goes down and stays down, but he LOVES the (very expensive) Feline TD dental health food from the vet--so he keeps trying to eat it, gingerly, and figures it's better to hork it down whole than to not have it at all. And then back up it comes. He does eat too fast as well, though, because he has some neurosis about starving to death. He was a stray as a kitten and has never forgotten the fear that he won't know where his next meal is coming from (and he's 11 now, so I guess that's never going to go away).

So he blows chunks (literally) frequently; our nervous wreck of a runt (female) graces us with hairballs and refuses to poo in the litter boxes even when they're pristine and so drops morsels on the plastic sheeting just outside the boxes; and our bowling-pin-shaped overly mellow other female gases us with farts stinky enough to make your eyebrows fall out--and I spend hours each day going through scads of spray cleaner, Nature's Miracle, and paper towels to keep the house from smelling like a zoo.

Again, I say, if they weren't so cute, I'd turn them all into hats.

[reyd reid reed]

44. Carpet I don't mind so much...

What I hate is when they pick the back of the couch.

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