To expect my cat to vomit on hard floor

[Johnhasalongmoustache]

Rather than his choice surface - carpet ?

It’s the cat law - must puke in the most inconvenient place!

Bonus points if it’s so close to a hard surface, but not actually on it

We have often had the conversation about what happens if you have no carpet, does the cat no longer puke or are they entering other people's houses through their cat flat to puke on their carpets instead?

mine used to do it into my slipper so I would put my foot in it in the middle of the night😂

My cat throws up in his litter tray

@Aussiegold
We have often had the conversation about what happens if you have no carpet, does the cat no longer puke or are they entering other people's houses through their cat flat to puke on their carpets instead?

I have restored all the original wood flooring in my house.

The cats puke on the rugs...

Mine will pick carpet too, I've always thought it just be as it's more like grass so they feel it'll be more hidden 🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

My entire house is tiled or laminate floor. I have two rugs. A cheap Ikea one in the lounge and a rather expensive Persian rug in the dinning room - or as it known in our house the cats room. 99% of the time she throws up on the Persian rug. The other 1% is just outside the bedroom door so we will stand on it on our way to the toilet in the dark. Bless her.

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. 😳

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?!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 🤢

One of mine used to like shoes as a receptacle.

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

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. 😬

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

@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.

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

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

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.