Cats really are awful, digusting creatures

[spinbaby]

First thing this morning, I stepped in cold cat barf with my bare foot.

When I went downstairs for coffee, I spotted something on the kitchen floor. EWWWW.... rat tail! But when I got a paper towel and disinfectant to get it up, I discovered it wasn't a rat tail. It was the end of a snake.

Our cats don't go out at night, so one of the darlings must have stashed the snake inside for their nighttime amusement.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Which takes us back to that age-old question:

Is it worse to step in cold cat barf or warm cat barf?

Yes, they are disgusting. I love them anyhow.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Nice post, Orrex.

[MissHoneychurch]

3. My guest cat goes to his litterbox

to throw up. :D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. One of mine was sitting on a windowsill, and suddenly leaned over

and hurled neatly into a waste basket.

That does not normally happen, however. Usually they engage in strategic puking; that is, they barf in those exact places where I am most likely to step in the dark.

[jp11]

5. That's a good kitty.

Mine did that too, bestest cat I ever was enslaved to.

[NJCher]

6. I feel your pain

The other day one of mine barfed five times. The last time I didn't even bother to clean it up. I left it for Mr. C.

When I had a cat that went outside, she came in with a slug and deposited it on my bedsheet. The previous night I had been scraping slugs off plants into soapy water and ...I'd forgotten one, so she let me know.

Oh and don't get me started on the petrified mouse I found when I cleaned out a closet. Guess he must have hidden out in fear of the three kitties.

And one time I lifted up a couch and found a dead bird, newly deposited, thank heavens.

But, sigh, I too love 'em anyway.


Cher

[spinbaby]

7. They're lucky they're so damn cute

Wouldn't put up with them otherwise. Don't even get me started on baby bunnies.

[ColesCountyDem]

8. Stepping in cold barf or on an actual snake....

Tell me you'd prefer stepping on the snake.

;)

[Arugula Latte]

9. Yeah, but life without 'em is a meaningless void bereft of adorableness.

[yawnmaster]

10. By having two cats often I will find that one will eat the other's barf...minimal cleanup!

not everytime, but enough!

[GoCubsGo]

12. Or, their own

I swear, my poor, old man must be part Holstein cow. He cleans up after himself most times. I just wish he'd barf on the vinyl floor, and not on the carpet I just cleaned. Damn chronic renal failure.

[Doc_Technical]

11. Cat Lassie to the rescue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q2s8AJbsps

[NJCher]

17. was that ever funny!

I watched it three times!

"I can't feel my legs!"

Over the weekend, I was reminiscing with my brother about watching Lassie when we were kids, so that made it doubly funny.


Cher

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Just now, my sweet little girl cat Pixie yacked up her entire dinner.

What was interesting (if one finds feline puking habits interesting) is that the enormous volume she produced suggests that she is entirely hollow -- that is, there's nothing inside her but a stomach. No lungs, liver, anything else. Just a totally hollow container with which to store and eventually eject vomit.

It was really amazing.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. When miss kitty was alive I would now and again find a squirrel

head staring up at me seemingly out of the concrete at the front door. She brought me needful things.

[knownothing]

15. After reading all the posts

I am glad that I have two cats that are not allowed outside and that they are on hairball control food. Though I do have to worry about them puking if they try and eat the houseplants....

[suzbaby]

16. I'll take vomit over anything from the "other end."

Oscar fought a bout of diarrhea for a while. I once came home to find our entire house wreaking of poo. I then found three diarrhea accidents, not one of which was on the tile. He got them all on some sort of carpet or fabric. One of them was like a shotgun blast of poo on the wall. Must have been one upset stomach....