For all you DU scientists out there.

[cinematicdiversions]

I have an experiment for you. Take a football stadium. Cover the entire football field in tile. Put a small rug at the 50 yard line. Time how long it takes my bloody cat to throw up on the rug.

[dhol82]

1. He's just being special.

[Phoenix61]

2. How expensive is the rug? nt

[ProfessorGAC]

7. This And...

...how close to a spot with sunlight is it?
Because if it's near a sunny spot, the cat is already right next to the expensive rug!

[cinematicdiversions]

12. Borderline family heirloom. Nt

[Phoenix61]

13. Well there's your answer. Mine never opt for the

dollar store kitchen rugs. They prefer the hand knotted one in the dining room. It’s also their preferred one for sharpening their claws.

[Shermann]

3. Dogs won't eat messy treats on tile floors

The treat MUST be carried over to a rug where they can make a proper mess with it.

[Ocelot II]

4. A cat can run 30 mph for short distances.

So probably about 4 seconds if I got the math right.

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Our new kitty had an inaugural barf on the carpet last week.

I got 2 paper towels down in front of her before the action really got going but she swung to the side on the first heave. All I could do was watch. Yuck.

[zuul]

6. Consider yourself lucky. I have one that regularly pukes while he's looking out the window . . .

Puke on the glass in the window. CHECK

Puke on the blinds. CHECK

Puke on the window sill. CHECK

Puke down the drywall. CHECK

Puke on the floor. CHECK

[3catwoman3]

18. You forgot puke down the heat vent in the floor.

Or maybe yours haven't figured out that particular pleasure yet.

[Skittles]

8. and they always back up, like, the length of your foot

I SWEAR that is on purpose.

[csziggy]

9. Yeah, we have two really nice oriental rugs in the living room

As prep for bringing them into the remodeled house, we sent them to a rug cleaner company. Within two days - TWO DAYS - of putting the clean rugs down with their new pads, the cats had thrown up on them at least twice for each of the three cats.

For those who might worry about the cats' health - I found out that my husband was 'sharing' the milk he puts on his cereal with the cats. AS soon he stopped doing that, the vomiting stopped.

[wnylib]

16. They can cough up hair balls on rugs pretty well, too.

I have learned not to give mine treats before or soon after feeding her. I usually let her have a small piece of lincheon meat or tuna as a treat when making a sandwich. But their tummies are small compared to ours and too much going in means some coming up and out later.

Spot remover, scrub brush, and carpet shampooer - essential items in a kitty home.

[csziggy]

17. Yep, though mine don't get many treats

Sabra is very overweight so we are restricting their food. We put out 1/3 of a cup of crunchies twice a day for each cat. Maya is tiny - under 8 pounds so she often does not finish her food. Lucas is larger so he cleans up what Maya doesn't eat. Sabra eats hers and looks for more, but Lucas is very efficient at cleaning up uneaten food so there isn't much left for Sabra. It takes several hours for all the crunchies to be consumed.

We split one of those little cans of cat food among the three cats two or three times a week. That is a big occasion for the cats. I put that down then wait a couple of hours to put down their crunchies, so they don't eat too much at a time.

We don't have much problem with hair balls. I have cat grass growing on the catio and they all go out there and graze on it. I've never found green vomit, so I guess that is pushing the hair through their systems.

In fact, since we put them on diets, I have not found any cat vomit anywhere in the house. I think it helps that they all eat slowly and don't bolt their food.

[NNadir]

10. I'm sorry, but I'll need a $1,597,502,555 grant to build a satellite to detect cat vomit from orbit.

[uriel1972]

14. Heck I just need a barefoot in the dark...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

11. Better one!

Take a football field, put a table two thirds the size of the field and put it in the field. Then put a glass in the middle of the table. Use a stopwatch to find out how long it takes for the cat to knock the glass off the table.

[jmowreader]

15. How precise of a clock can I have?

[3catwoman3]

19. This thread is a hoot, and oh so true.

Ours will start to gag on the tile floor in the kitchen, and then run for the Oriental carpet.

One of our, as I observed above, has managed to barf into the heat vent in the floor of the kitchen - a special talent.