Just had my first full-on cat throw-up incident

[MrsBertMacklin]

One a more serious note, she's thrown up her dinner an hour after eating it. No other signs of distress other than trying to clean her mouth, she's taken water afterwards and gone to the toilet.

Safe to assume it's just a one-off and withhold any other food until the morning? Is there a cat equivalent of Listerine?

My cat loves vomiting. It's her hobby.

She has been this way since the beginning though. I've had her up the vets to get it checked. The vet did do a sympathetic head tilt and looked at me as if my cat is my PFB.

There is currently cat sick all up my garden path. Yum.

In all seriousness, if she acts unwell or has repeated vomiting in a short time period, see the vets tomorrow

The odd one goes with the territory I'm afraid, MrsBert. (Although of course you'll be keeping up with her worming schedule.) Sometimes they get furballs and sometimes they eat too greedily and overload the system.

And sometimes they're just sick.

I don't get many at all with Seniorboy and I put that down to daily grooming so that he gets hardly any hair build-up inside him. He was vomitty when he had bad teeth at 16 but since having those sorted, he's not had a problem there.

Did she do it on the most expensive piece of carpet you have? (Those seem to be their target of choice.)

PS - I wouldn't withhold food but rather just go on as normal.

Just read this intending to commiserate and just realised I haven't given our moggie any worming tablets or flea treatment for ages - that's something to look forward to tomorrow then!
I'm sure your cat is fine, probably just ate too quickly or had a fur ball.

Try a spot on if you're likely to have ructions, Pointless. My own cat is pill-phobic and there's no point even attempting one with him so it's spot-ons for him (and me) every time.

It happens. One of mine is very prone to vomming. The other day she threw up a mouse in the kitchen, thereby combining both of her most unlovable traits

Thank you all. She's currently rolling around on the floor, purring and tarting it up against her new cat basket. Her food came up undigested, so perhaps she did eat even more quickly than usual...

Luckily she likes to hack stuff up without an audience, so she's ejected her dinner behind the TV, the sofa and under the dinner table.

They are very vomitty creatures, cats .

Not sure why I wanted one, as a hopeless emetophobe.

I panic when the cat starts on the vomiting noises and run away. Dh has to deal with it all, and he never wanted a cat in the first place (as he loves to remind me).

15 glorious years of cat ownership this year .

One large vomit and two much smaller subsidiary piles? I recognize that pattern.

Indeed, as though the smell and vision of the first pile has revolted her: 'Well, I refuse to give my patronage to an establishment with these standards.'

I especially like the dirty looks I get as she is strutting away from her vom pile.

My old cat used to swim in next doors pond.

Then come home and vomit half a frog up in the living room. Usually at any guests feet.

YES! Why always the piles?

'I appear to have been sick. Best wander off. Oh, hang on, perhaps I could manage another over here! Only a small one, mind.'

And repeat.

The madcat is a sicker. Just fluid, mostly. Which, you'd think it'd be easier to deal with, but it's much less visible, much more flowy, and my god she likes to do it in areas people commonly walk through barefoot.

Bare feet on cold piles of sick, which squish through the toes. Lovely way to start the day.

MCat was sick (for the first time in aaages) yesterday. He did a sort of slow pirouette at the same time. Made a sort of circle of sick.

*By pirouette, I don't men got up and balanced on 1 leg and spun. He walked around on one spot, spreading the runny sick.

Twoago managed a projectile vomit across the entire top landing (pale fawn carpet at the time) which was much less tasteful than a circle I assure you. (He had serious renal problems at the time so it was probably due to that.)

I take issue myself with the way they always seem to manage to do it on a good (or pale) carpet. Or in my case - with most of the house down to old wooden floorboards - on the ruddy cracks between the boards and not on the boards themselves.

It seems more purposeful than random.

We don't have carpet, just laminate and tiles!

We got up to a pile of sick on Christmas morning - he'd just missed DH's trainers

Get a dog, they will happily " clear up " cat dock

Yes! new and very pale grey carpets. And a while ago my beautiful day old rug downstairs. The first day. Never the floorboards or tiles.

I ALWAYS have a can of Vanish on each floor.

However, all is forgiven. MCat's been curled up next to me, and the Little Monsieur's just jumped on my lap for cuddles. After announcing himself with his usual "Errrng, ungyah."

Dogs not allowed upstairs at cozietowers, Hopping. Guess where any cats who are thinking about a vomit go?

I was at a conference last year about 1500 vets in a room. We were asked to out up our hands if we had a cat who intermittently vomits about 1000 of us put up our hands.
We were then told that at post mortem 75% of clinically normal cats had signs of pancreatitis. We were then asked to put up our hands if we thought our vomiting cat hand pancreatitis pretty much 1000 of us put up our hands.
We were then asked to put up our hands if we intended to do nothing about our intermittent vomiting cat 1000 of us put up our hands.
Rule of thumb three or more vomiting episodes in a day or daily vomiting for three days in a row needs a vet. The one of vomit is f no concern.

Really interesting Lone. So the occasional puking might be a sign of pancreatitis, albeit not serious? I know it's a tricky thing but do you know if there are any guidelines about feeding or care to prevent/manage it, even if it's a sort of low level thing?

At this low level the general consensus is treat them as normal. Hence the wildly unconcerned group of vets.

What I hate most is when I hear the vomming noise and then have to play hunt the vom piles.
Why did I think it a good idea to have fours cats

Dogs not allowed upstairs at cozietowers, Hopping. Guess where any cats who are thinking about a vomit go?

I would carry my dog upstairs in a hammock woven from unicorn hair if there was cat sick to be cleared up. He's very good at it.