<p>Ziggy is my little vomit machine. He’s been doing it regularly the entire 4+ years I’ve had him. Sometimes only once or twice a week, sometimes every day. The vet always says there’s nothing wrong with him. He just eats too quickly. Eyes bigger than stomach, and all that. So it usually happens a few minutes after he starts eating.</p>
<p>Thank God, he only does it on the bare floor, never once on a rug, ever. So it isn’t difficult to clean up. But one of the spots he likes to go back to, time and time again, is directly in front of the door to the bathroom. When I have to go in the middle of the night, I just love that feeling on the bottom of my foot when I step in it. </p>
<p>But I love him anyway! It’s no worse than what I used to have to clean up once upon a time for J.</p>
<p>Your cat may just be a regular vomiter, but you can try switching his food and see if it helps. I feed my cat Hill’s Science Diet Hairball Formula. I buy the regular adult cat formulation, but it is also available in “light” and for mature cats. My cat only vomits once a year or so. He once ate part of a mouse (yuck) that didn’t agree with him. He also vomits if he eats grass, which isn’t too often because he is an indoor cat. But it does seem as if he eats the grass intentionally so that he will vomit. Anyone else wonder about this? I do think Science Diet eliminates hairballs, and he absolutely loves the taste.</p>
<p>Our oldest cat is 15 and has been vomiting as long as I can remember. I think I can beat all of you though, because not only does he try to find carpet to vomit on (which ends up being on area rugs as our house is all wood floors) but he tends to climb on the back of our couches and chairs and then vomit. The result is not pretty and between cats and kids is the reason that every piece of furniture I have is slipcovered. We just always attributed it to his being a nervous/high strung kind of guy. Vets can never give us a reason.</p>
<p>We are stuck because the cat is on a prescription diet for urinary tract infections. And sorry, LasMa- he is short haired and pukes fairly often. Eating grass does seem to trigger it but he pukes all winter when there is no grass. And otherwise, mine is a healthy 12 year old cat. Got to go- he just ate his breakfast and brought it back up. So much for the expensive food.</p>
<p>Yes, because I have more than one of that variety! They should have little bios written up when you adopt them like in a dating service. I definitely will not miss the vomiting (and spraying!) that my old guy does but my heart will break when he finally goes none the less.</p>
<p>Don’t really have much to add except that one of our two cats vomits about once a month also. I have asked the vet and he is also not concerned, just says he must eat too fast. It is very disgusting though, especially when you can just see the undigested food in it. The first time I found it, I wasn’t sure which cat it came from or what it was. Nice to know we’re not alone.</p>
<p>I thought it may be to do with the frontline we put on our cats, but was told there was no corelation between the two. Last summer one of our cats got fleas even after already being on frontline, they never infested the house and the other cat never got them, but about once a week we would find a flea crawling on her white fur…now, that is much WORSE than the occasional vomit in my opinion.</p>
<p>I have one plant in my apartment – I’ve had it forever, so it touches my 11 or 12 foot ceiling; it grew from a cutting from a plant my mother had more than 40 years ago – and Ziggy loves to climb up on a chair or bookcase and bite, chew, and swallow pieces of the leaves when he thinks I"m not looking. (He keeps checking back over his shoulder to see if I"m around, with a guilty look on his face! I’ve tried every cat repellent on the market, but none deters him.) And when he does it, he <em>always</em> throws up later the same day, and I <em>always</em> find the undigested remains in his vomit. I can’t ever have flowers, because he nibbles at them all day long. But I don’t want to get rid of the plant, although I’d have to build a wire fence around it to keep him away.</p>
<p>“Wait. You mean there are cats that DON’T vomit? How do I get one of those?”</p>
<p>My current white cat has serious eating disorder. She can eat until her stomach explodes, but will never vomit. We were worried that she had parasites or some disease, but the tests all came back normal. When she was a baby, she was rescued from a hoarder’s house. Being the runt of the litter, she was always food-deprived in her kittenhood, so naturally she developed a habit of using any opportunity to stuff her little stomach. I think food is so precious to her, that she would never let any of it out!</p>
<p>With the Barfing Queen, we tried every hairball remedy available - special food, additives… Nothing helped. After a hearty breakfast of her hairball control diet, she would run upstairs as fast as she could and send undigested food pellets cascading down the stairs. LOL.</p>
<p>My apologies to all, but your stories are making me laugh out loud! Makes me feel so much better about my own doggie barfer So curious that these animals are so picky about where and how they vomit!</p>
<p>My cat like most is a vomiter too. When I hear her start I try to grab her and put her on the tile to make my life a little easier! Last year her vomiting became more frequent and she was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. She had other signs too - voracious appetite, excessive thirst and weight loss. After her radioactive treatment she’s back to her normal self with much less frequent vomiting.</p>
<p>I’m reading this and laughing out loud. DH asked what I’m reading. His response was “there’s a thread about CAT PUKE on College Confidiential???” which just made me laugh harder. :)</p>
<p>DonnaL, my previous cat loved flowers, but I found some that she didn’t like. Have you tried carnations or alstroemeria? Those were two she ignored. The thing she couldn’t resist was baby’s breath. I love having fresh flowers in the house, but I love my cat more!</p>
<p>Oh my, this is the hardest I have laughed in weeks. I mean really serious snorting laughs.<br>
Thank you all for sharing and letting me know that my private h*ll with our elderly cat and the fabrics and surfaces in our home wasn’t a unique problem.</p>
<p>I thought my cat was the only bulimic one until I read this site. Eat, eat, vomit. Meow (aka: “I want a clean dish and more food please.”) eat, eat, vomit. </p>
<p>Now i monitor how much I feed her and take the plate away after a few minutes. I’ve also done something else that has made a huge difference. Warning: only a cat lover would do this: I burp her. I pick her up, and pat her tummy. Sure enough, buuuurrr-p!</p>
So curious that these animals are so picky about where and how they vomit!</p>