So here's another thing; I've grown so inured to this cat-yacking that the night-sound of the furry pest horking up her chow no longer motivates me to get up and find the vile spew.
I figure what's done is done, and no worse will occur before morning. In the morning I drag my ass out of bed and go clean up the nasty eruption.
Unfortunately for me, our crew of sugar ants was much less lazy. The little bastards were all over the place this morning. Gah.
I'm not sure who to blame at this point, but I'm working on making it either the car or the ants rather than my own sloth.
However you look at it, it's still revolting.
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I'd blame Bundy, except he's in jail.
So, clearly it was the Beltway Bandits.
Both Sides Do It!!!
Hahaha I remember a neighbour of mines cats did the same thing, think she got over it after a while as well, because every so often there would be a surprise "cat yack" on the carpet in her house haha
The one lingering effect of the midnight-cat-yack, Talyssa, is that I DO tend to step VERY carefully in the morning, having stepped on a cat-mine once or twice. It's not an experience that encourages repeating. So I emerge from my scratcher on the qui vive, searching for the nasty emanation, determined to get it before it gets me.
When Nitty DOES his something other than bare floor, well...gah. Clothing and shoes and whatever tend to end up in the bathtub to be washed out as I go find cleaning materials for the nearby floor.
Meanwhile the cat is tripping me up begging for more food. That seldom amuses me, given the situation...
Unsolicited advice which you probably already know.... Hairballs are most often the cause of the puking up of undigested food. Try a gob of Vaseline on a front leg and paw once a week and see if it makes any difference. Works for my cats. As I said, you probably already know and do this.
Jill
These don't look like the Nit's "hairball yaks", Jill. She DOES do that, but the expellate looks very different - it's...well, it's a hairball. These are undigested kitty kibbles, which is why I think she's gorging to get the kibbles down her neck before the little Drachma gets after her...
Well, to just wear out the topic and my welcome... I have never, ever seen a hairball. My cats puke up the kibble and it's just sort of wet kibble, not even especially mushy. The Vaseline puts an end to it. It's worth a try.
Jill, the reluctant cat owner.
Isn't it interesting that cats show such similar behaviors to us? Human, all to human, really. I understand bulimia in a cat, yet isn't it interesting there is rarely anorexia?? They're just not that vain. (Or, not hounded by a mother to be thin.)
I once inherited a cat which had been abandoned as a kitten at a construction site; I was her third owner. She had such food hoarding behavior, the bowl simply had to be picked up. It was a true scarcity mentality, mixed in with several other neurosis. Yet for all of it, there was a sweetness underneath.
Dogs show separation anxiety, our pets often suffer excoriation, but we assume it must be an allergy, and pay beaucoup to the vets looking for an environmental problem, instead. I think Cesar Milan's tack is correct: so many problems with pets can be solved by using human psychology, which is to say, psychology.
Dogs, especially, have lived with us so long, it is little wonder we (or more often, they) understand us so well.
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