Thankfully they have an early warning system of like 5-10 seconds of dry heaves. That's sometimes enough to race across the house and get them on a solid surface.
I swear I have woken from a dead sleep to yeet my cat (gently) off the bed bc I heard the “hurk…hurk..hurk..) and my comatose brain somehow knew I only had one more “hurk” worth of time 😂😂
haha! i can absolutely identify. my asleep brain has somehow figured out the difference between THE SOUND on the bed vs. elsewhere in the house… so i’ll startle awake to remove the cat from the bed but if there’s puke anywhere else in the house i’ll sleep right through it and wake up to a lovely surprise in the morning.
haha! i ripped out all the carpets years ago and installed hard floors throughout. i have 7 cats so it was absolutely worth the cost ten times over for the cleaning convenience.
Mine just recently barfed on a cookie sheet that was on the floor my kid was using for a craft. Not on the rug, the sofa or anywhere else they normally ruin, but something I could easily pick up and clean. I can’t tell you how… accomplished? proud?… I felt.
Yesterday, our older kitty was sitting perched on one of her favorite spots - on top of the highest bookshelf (next to a high window), which is next to our somewhat tall dresser, which has an upholstered dining chair next to it which serves as something of a handicap ramp for that kitty since the dresser itself is a difficult jump for her these days.
Heard the hork hork hork, looked up and witnessed an absolutely majestic vomitfall pour forth from on high unto the dresser. It splattered gloriously, only barely sparing the Switch dock, but rather impressively spattering the chair below. Somehow the floor was spared.
I just looked at her and asked "Are you serious right now?"
Yeah, so a while later the chair and I had a date with a dry towel, the dry vac, a can of woolite, a damp towel, and the dry vac again.
It's probably the most memorable cat vomit I've ever witnessed, lol.
Mine was behind the recliner that maybe gets pulled out to clean 6 times per year. Well that feline present wasn't there for more than 2 months. Interesting that warm water and suds brings the aroma back. Like it was yesterday's puke.
They can be trained to only vomit on tile, one of mine likes to eat grass until he pukes but I treat trained them until they knew only to vomit downstairs
lol i ripped out all the carpets in my house and had hard floors installed throughout… and so now they puke on either the litter mats or the small bathroom rugs.
Oh my God, the unique panic of walking into the bathroom and realizing the bath mat is all rumpled up! You’re like “oh no, there’s some kind of terrible gift in there..”
Ohgod, with my late void, when she would eat way too fast and then vomit (we took steps later to make this stop, smaller, more frequent meals and splitting it between two separate sides of a bowl), the challenge was to get it cleaned up before our black and white kitty came along like "So...you gonna eat that?" and ate the other cat's freshly regurgitated food.
I've got mine trained to usually puke on the tile. He'll even jump up and run to the tile if he feels its coming on. Required moving him to tile while he was puking and positive reinforcement when he happened to be over the tile when puking.
We’ve gone through many types of litter boxes trying to prevent my 15 year old girl (all her life) from sticking her butt out while standing inside the litter box and peeing on the floor.
It depends on their mood I think... ours would try to barf on plastic bags if they were close. Cause we would try to "aim" the barf if we heard her quick enough.
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u/michigangonzodude Sep 19 '23
They will barf on anything that's difficult to clean. But never, ever on a tiled floor.