How often do your cats throw up?

[ZenLefty]

Poll question: How often do your cats throw up?

I'm just trying to get a baseline for what should be considered normal behavior, as my cat pukes at least 3-4 times a week (mostly hairballs). Sometimes it seems like it's on a daily basis. One of the worst aspects of working from home is that ZenLeftyGirl never has to clean up any cat puke - because I hear it when it happens and get to do it myself. :(

[sus]

1. never.

[benburch]

2. One cat...

Always throws up three times... You will find one big pile, one little pile, and one tiny puddle... In different places, and always in the traffic pattern for walking to the bathroom in the dark...

[SOteric]

3. My cat is a genetic freak

Relatively longish (medium really) hair and only the necessary equipment to process hairballs for a shorthair. I groom him twice a day and feed him nutrimalt to help process the furballs. He only yarks maybe once a week, - sometimes less.

My recently demised cat Romeo, however, suffered kidney failure. He yarked at least once a day and sometimes more often, regardless of the frequent grooming. Has ZenKitty been seen by the vet recently?

[ZenLefty]

4. He's in very good health, despite his daily habit

Vets love him. He's 14 years old with the energy of a kitten - constantly playing and galloping around the house chasing ghosts. He's longhaired, but grooms himself so often that he NEVER has mats in his fur, or anything besides a soft and perfect mane. But all that grooming comes with a price... :puke:

[tandot]

5. it's hard to tell, my dog sometimes eats my cat's puke

...if the litter box would be accessible to him, he would eat the cat brownies, too. :puke:


And I wonder what I would find behind furnitures and underneath the bed :scared:

[Unperson 309]

15. When we had the dogs and the cats together...

we referred to the catbox snacks as PowerBars!

We tried to keep the pups away from the catboxes, but you know how that goes...

309

"Shaking like a chihuahua shittin' cat litter!"

[arcane1]

6. Mine has been a regular hurler for her entire life

She has long hair, etc, and thus coughs up furballs all the time, but often she just hurls, not sure if fur is causing that, too.

That said, she has had absolutely no health problems in her 10 years of life

[LynneSin]

7. Maybe your cats are bulimic?

My cats never through up, but they get anti-hairball snacks everyday

[ZenLefty]

10. I blame those damn Friskies commercials

All they show are these nice, slender cats and it gives little ZenKitty the idea that he has to look like that to be attractive, no matter what it takes. :grr:

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Brushing reduces this, but probably won't eliminate it. n/t

[DS1]

9. Maybe 3 times a year. Usually after eating a large amount of rodent.

But thankfully, long enough afterwards for it to somewhat solidy and be easily scoopable off the carpet.

[bif]

11. Any morning I go barefoot to get the coffee

What a lovely feeling. Cold cat vomit squishing between the toes!

[TX-RAT]

12. same here

Don't walk around with your shoes off before the lights are on.

[cedahlia]

13. LOL!

and here I thought I was alone in furball hell! :D My sweet girl has a beautiful, long coat, which she is fastidious about grooming. So I guess the sleek, soft, forever-mat-free coat comes with a price! She's at a least a twice a week, if not more hurler! It's most often furballs, but sometimes she'll inhale her food like a madwoman and it will promptly find its way back out of her tummy.

[Demeter]

14. For Your Sake and The Cat's: GET SOME HAIRBALL MEDICINE!

The poor creature is in distress--the medicine coats the hair so it passes out of its system. And brush the cat once a week, or even every night. Love your kitty, don't let it suffer!

PS: My cats don't throw up (except if shedding and licking too much)

[Beaverhausen]

19. Yes! Mine love petromalt

they come crying when I open the drawer where I keep it. They suck it right out of the tube.

[tjwash]

16. That reminds me...

...there is a nice fresh hairball she left me as a gift I have to pick up.

[tjwash]

17. That reminds me...

...there is a nice fresh hairball she left me as a gift I have to pick up.

[marigold20]

18. Just once in their short lives!

They are 10 months old and do not throw up - yet!

[Beaverhausen]

20. You can also let cats lick a stick of butter or put vaseline on their paw

and they will lick it off.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. one cat never throws up

the other one eats cardboard and throws up daily

[VOX]

22. My boy Dobbs is a dry-food bolter. He often spits up next to his dish..

I read in the Cornell U. vet publication though, that this phenomenon isn't actually vomiting, it's "regurgitation."

Whatever, it's always a mess to clean up. But I love the little imp, he can't help it.