dear cats

[rmd]

dear felines in the house:
i *know* you hate all that vacuuming. if you would only stop THROWING UP ON EVERYTHING I OWN, there would be less vacuuming.

negotiation seems useless, however.

Comments

[drglam]

I started using a Furminator on my cat about six weeks ago. She's thrown up twice since then, down from several times a week. It's like a miracle!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

oh, the furminator is a great and wonderful thing. my cats throw up a lot less than they used to, between furminating and the hyper one going on drugs to slow down her thyroid.

it still annoying when they do it, though. *shake fist*

[firni.livejournal.com]

While I was in Canada, P apparently steam-cleaned the carpets. The newest cat waited an entire week, until we were COMING UP TO STAIRS to vomit up a nice pile RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LIVING ROOM.

P said "thanks for waiting to puke on my steam-cleaned carpet, fucker."

The cat's reaction is in my icon.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

resistance is futile....negotiation is useless. Cats will barf on whatever is most important to you at that moment (like the blanket we threw over the bed on Saturday night only to learn that the cats had barfed on it sometime on Sunday--we only found out at bedtime last night. Sigh)

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

KITTY MIND CONTROL!!!

My mornings have been filled with catnanigans.

Cat scratches mattress
I squirt cat with water.
He flees.
30 minutes later, scratches mattress.
Squirt with water. Repeat repeat.
I shut bedroom door.
An hour or two later, cat scratches at door beggign to come back in.....so he can scratch the mattress.

WHYYYY!!!!


Also note to self, buy cat scratching post.

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

Little Stupid threw up an average of twice a week when we fed her purina dry cat food. she tossed once in four weeks when we switched to iams dry. blondie brushed her compulsively the entire time and her food consumption didn't seem to vary. perhaps their food disagrees with them.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

oh, they haven't been horking much lately. except for a bit apparently a couple of days ago on a piece of rug where i didn't find it until it was dry. THANKS, CATS.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

"When I was a little kid, in Saint Olaf, Minnesota..." ;-)

Well, not quite, but this happened over ten years ago, when one of our room mates had a long haired cat, I had no idea about how to train animals, and was quite naive about cats. In other words, it was an accident. But it might work for y'all.

Jack the cat kept barfing. He was the only cat I've ever lived with. So, here I am, at the supermarket, and see a tube of some paste that claims (a) to be delicious to cats and (b) to somehow stop or alleviate the problems with fur balls -- naturally, this naive darned foreigner buys it.

So I get home and it doesn't take long for Jack to barf in the living room. "Oh, yeah!", says I, "I got the thing to help with that", so follow the directions on the tube and put some on his front paw so he can lick the delicious thing. He promptly shakes his paw and runs away. I clean the floor. Please stop laughing. :-P

Later the same day, he throws up in the kitchen, so I get the tube of medicine again and put some on his nose, like the alternate instructions say. He's still pissed at me, but licks his nose clean. Over the next few days, I put the thing on his nose every time I remembered, which was the 2-3 times a day he barfed.

A few days pass, I don't see barf anywhere. I am about to think that the paste helps and I hear him throwing up in the bathroom. I take a look inside. He's barfing in the litter box. I'm just fine with that. Apparently I accidentally trained him to do that to avoid the paste. ;-)

Good luck!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

conveniently, the two barfiest cats both like the paste most of the time, and the third tolerates having it put on her paws and having to lick it off.

[evwhore.livejournal.com]

I would settle for either one of (a) on the kitchen linoleum where it is easier to clean up or (b) during waking hours

3:30 AM in the middle of the bedroom, not so much.