My cat will literally run to make it to the one piece of carpet (a beautiful, medium pile purple shag area rug that my wife LOVES) in our hardwood floored master bedroom EVERY time she has to cough up a hairball or vomit profusely😅
I have had very good luck with training my cats to do this. The minute they make The Sound, I pick them up and put them on the hard floor. It worked very well for both cats I did it with. And one of them is a ginger.
Same. My parents accidentally did this with one of theirs, a very obliging Maine coon-ish boy, they'd move him and eventually he started choosing hard floors or newsprint. I am making some progress with mine.
Tell that to our horrible cat who was nauseated at the smell of clean linens. Your bed wouldn’t be made for five minutes when you would hear her *hork hork hork* and see a blur sprinting to your bedroom
I'd say : "If you're going to puke, please use your litter tray". ( but we're probably agreed, there's nothing quite like getting up at 4 in the morning for a comfort break, and squelching in a pile of cat sick with your bare feet,).
My sentence for my pets to understand would be: I swear to you, every single mean thing I do to you (that doesn't involve the kitchen countertop battle) is out of love; pills, nail trims, it's all so you'll be happy and healthy."
It’s the undignified violence of the hacking and gagging - often combined with literally walking backwards at the same time ‘to get it all out’- b2b with the studied nonchalance of the ‘sauntering off’ afterwards, without a single look back, that gets me.
I was reading a particularly moving & poignant piece of writing this morning when my cat decided to break the spell by vomiting on the floor by my feet. Admittedly she did choose a hard surface.
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Panic ensues
I feel vaguely blessed.
But I still have to clean it up while she watches in fascination.
I know at least one of them would tell me to F-Off.
But, I really agree.
“ please don’t puke on a hard service”
And then I wouldn't have to shout it as loud.
Yes
This
(MASS sends to all pets emails)