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To expect my cat to vomit on hard floor

58 replies

Johnhasalongmoustache · 06/06/2024 06:49

Rather than his choice surface - carpet ?

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RoobarbAndMustard · 06/06/2024 17:04

Mitsky · 06/06/2024 07:45

Luckily ours don’t vomit but mine interrupted a zoom call yesterday to let me know that poo was hanging out her bottom attached to grass.

Thanks mate.

Yes I hate it when mine eat grass and have lumps of poo hanging out of their bottoms. Then if the poo falls off they try to bury it on the hard floor.

DaffydownClock · 06/06/2024 14:03

Seeline · 06/06/2024 12:57

One of mine used to like shoes as a receptacle.

That was always a nice surprise - especially if still warm.....

Edited

Try getting bare foot out of welly boot in a hurry - I have experience of cat vomit in one and, on another occasion, a live mouse 🤬

mewkins · 06/06/2024 13:59

My dog went under the kingsize bed to vomit (on carpet) the other day. The most difficult to reach place in the whole house.

chaostherapy · 06/06/2024 13:58

My lovely cat (RIP) used to head straight for his litter tray to be sick - most considerate.

FlipFlops4Me · 06/06/2024 13:54

@Alphabet1spaghetti2 😂

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 06/06/2024 13:52

@FlipFlops4Me 🤢🤮😹
at least my hair is now very clean.

FlipFlops4Me · 06/06/2024 13:51

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 06/06/2024 12:38

Mine surpassed themselves last night. Sat at the top of cat tree and vomited down the wall. The hen as I cleaned that up - vomited on my head.

You win!! 🏆

AnnaMagnani · 06/06/2024 13:22

YABU and you know it.

Have never once had a cat vomit on a hard floor if carpet is available. Preferably as many different rooms as possible.

One of mine will go outside to eat grass and come home specially so she can grace our carpet with her vomit.

KStockHERO · 06/06/2024 13:10

Clearly YABU

My dog was very ill last year and she refused to vomit on anything convenient. Once she threw up a boiled fish, white rice and pumpkin concoction in the corner of our dining room. It went down the edge of the carpet, soaked into and spread underneath the underlay. I tried cleaning it thoroughly - including pulling back carpet and underlay, bleaching everything - to no avail.

We had to replace the underlay and carpet. But we have cast iron radiators that sit on top of the carpet so as well as spending hundreds on new carpet and underlay, we also had to shell out for plumbers to remove and refit the radiators.

The one time she was sick in the hall way - tiled floor - we found out that the floor isn't level as the vomit slowly trickled its way off to the left and under the skirting board.

MasterBeth · 06/06/2024 13:06

Absolutely rank behaviour and what you get when you invite wild animals to live with you.

GoofyGoldie · 06/06/2024 13:04

Apparently carpet is better than hard floor as there is no splash back.
My dogs prefer the rugs too.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 06/06/2024 13:03

@Strictlymad i would but then you look into those gorgeous green eyes and they start to purr…. And you have become a cat slave again.

Strictlymad · 06/06/2024 13:01

this thread is life! Remind me not to get any more animals 😂😂😂😂😂

OneTC · 06/06/2024 13:00

When my cat used to go into puke mode if you chucked some paper down (or if there was paper on the floor) he'd puke on that.

Once saw him puke up a tapeworm. 😬

Seeline · 06/06/2024 12:57

One of mine used to like shoes as a receptacle.

That was always a nice surprise - especially if still warm.....

DaffydownClock · 06/06/2024 12:56

One of my cars preferred to vomit from a high spot so as to make as big a mess as possible. The other would manage to make it land on every single strait tread, goodness knows how 🤢

ImCamembertTheBigCheese · 06/06/2024 12:54

😂😂😂My cat goes to the rug or the carpet even if she is on the wooden floor

PandaCwtch · 06/06/2024 12:54

You know the answer to this. Of course you are being unreasonable to expect the furry little arsehole to doing anything convenient.

MangoJojo · 06/06/2024 12:54

My cat would very obviously move off a hard, wipeable surface to a soft carpet area before chucking his guts up. They know what they are doing.

DifficultBloodyWoman · 06/06/2024 12:53

You are being unreasonable in not providing an antique Persian carpet for her to puke on.

FancyPuffin · 06/06/2024 12:53

Mine stands on the windowsill at the top of the stairs and vomits loudly and dramatically downwards Hmm

Shodan · 06/06/2024 12:52

One of mine likes to come into the sitting room, start hawking and retching in front of me, then runs away because she knows I turf her out of the front door. Most of the time I catch her, so she leaves little piles where you least expect it in revenge when she evades my grasp.

She's a bit of a madam tbh.

muddyford · 06/06/2024 12:49

We were in a holiday cottage with hard floors throughout. Except the coir doormat. Which, obviously, was where the dog had the squits after eating filth on the beach.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 06/06/2024 12:49

YABU. I once, in desperation, shoved a newspaper in front of a gakking cat. Who then did every contortion possible to not be sick on the newspaper despite me constantly repositioning it. Just why?!

Overtheatlantic · 06/06/2024 12:47

My old cat would leg it out the cat flap and aim for the bushes. Loved that boy. My current cat prefers the place where she’s standing no matter the surface. 😳