# Cat Barf!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 1999, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260 "1999-12-21T15:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/1 "1999-12-21T15:22:00Z")
When I got home today I went into my room to put my Christmas packages down and read my mail, and a minute later I stepped back into the hall to hang up my coat. There, right in front of my door, were not one, but TWO piles of cat barf. I swear to God, they had not been there when I first got home. They were STILL WARM when I cleaned them up. EWWWWWWWWWYUCK!!! Dog shit may be the stinkiest, most tenacious substance on earth, but for sheer, overall GROSSNESS, _NOTHING_ is worse than cat barf. Ugh, I get nauseated just typing the words. The cat’s not even mine. It’s an old, grouchy, dirty thing belonging to my landlady, and I strongly suspect it waited til I got home and barfed in front of my door TO PISS ME OFF. Ordinarily I love cats, cant get enough of them, but this one would try the patience of Francis of Assisi. Thank you, just had to rant. * * * Where are we going and what am I doing in this handbasket? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/2 "1999-12-21T15:35:00Z")
My cat barfs every once in awhile but fortunately it’s not that gross! It looks like regular food only kinda slimey. I think that happens when she has a hairball and can’t digest her food. Whatever it is it really isn’t that bad. Or maybe it’s supposed to be disgusting but since my cat is absolutely wonderful I don’t know to be grossed out. * * * “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/3 "1999-12-21T16:00:00Z")
(I hope the codes work!) **Warning!!! Two Gross Cat-Substance Related Stories to Follow - Do Not Read for 30 minutes after eating, if you are pregnant, or have a heart condition (or are easily grossed out, but then if you were, why’d ya open a thread called Cat Barf to begin with)** You think regular cat barf is bad? I have a baby cat that took up with me several months ago. One Saturday, after feeding time, he was in the living room breathing sort of heavy. Then he started making horking sounds, and doing that coughing-up-a-hairball motion with his head and neck. Just as I start to say “Are you okay kitty?”, up comes this horrible wad of half chewed cat food, with a few intestinal worms to boot! Ugh, I nearly lost my own lunch over that episode. A friend of a friend has a cat whom she claims is “spiteful”. Whenever she and her husband are gone to work and leave the cat alone in the house, it leaves a pile of poo right in front of the door, on the little patch of linoleum. Their door swings pretty low, so it always smears just as they open it. They say the cat does it on purpose and then looks up at them with a smirk on its face as they clean up the poo. * * * Insert Random Witticism Here. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/4 "1999-12-21T16:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > A friend of a friend has a cat whom she claims is “spiteful”. Oh, believe it. Years ago I had a roommate that I hated and she had a cat that I disliked intensely. The feeling was quite mutual. I returned home late one Sunday night from a long camping trip, to find a big wet pile of cat crap on my pillow - AND the bastard had raked the covers back over the mess so I wouldn’t see it until I was ready to get into bed. @#($&^!)%~!&!! * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/5 "1999-12-21T17:08:00Z")
My sister has a cat of a particularly stupid breed-- I think it’s a persian-siamese mix or something. The sort of cat that walks into fans and doesn’t recognize fish as food. My S.O. and I were staying at sister’s small S.F. studio apartment one weekend, using sleeping bags on the floor. In the middle of the night I woke up realizing that my feet were warm and wet. I reached down to touch the stuff and smelled it, and thought to myself, “good God, Brandon (S.O) peed on my feet!” Then I realized it was probably the cat. When I related the night’s events to the others in the morning they laughed and laughed. So of course the next night the cat peed on Brandon’s feet. Glorious. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/6 "1999-12-22T06:23:00Z")
I’m sorry, but if any cat SHIT on my pillow, it would be a headless cat shortly thereafter. The thing that grosses me out so much about cats barfing is not so much the sight or the smell, but the **sound** of them wretching. That, “mmrrroowwwllllaaaeeetttcchhhrrrggghhh” sound, like someone scratching theirs nails across the chalkboard of your brain. Sheesh! * * * “Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.” -Tao Te Ching ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/7 "1999-12-22T06:54:00Z")
It’s not quite like that. . . more like “urk-uck-urk-uck-urk-uck-blluurrghaaasplat.” We have a 20 year old siamese-calico cross that loves to decorate the carpet. Especially now that we’re trying to sell the house. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/8 "1999-12-22T06:59:00Z")
I’m allergic to cats so I’ve never had one… **Democritus** I have tears rolling down my face from your description of the sound. Oh man, my sides. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/9 "1999-12-21T19:00:00Z")
Evidentally I posted this in the wrong forum originally, so here it is just cuz I know yer all dying to read it: ## Once I woke up in the middle of the night and placed my hand in something cold and wet. I turned on a light and found mouse remains vomited all over my bed, courtesy of my sister’s cat. Still gives me the heebie jeebies. “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/10 "1999-12-21T19:59:00Z")
MissDavis102: “Horking”?!! I just added a new word to my vocabulary! (oh, my sides hurt!) And Sylence, you captured the sound exquisitely: “urk-uck-urk-uck-urk-uck-blluurrghaaasplat.” * * * VB “Hey! How 'bout that Toe Jam?” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/11 "1999-12-21T22:21:00Z")
Cats barf. It’s all part of being a cat. However, should you notice your cat vomiting a lot, see worms or blood in the vomit, or notice anything else unsual, be sure to take your cat to the vet. You may now continue the funny stories. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SuperNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SuperNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNerd)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/12 "1999-12-21T23:35:00Z")
> [@](#): > > urk-uck-urk-uck-urk-uck-blluurrghaaasplat … and, you can see the muscles along their sides rippling from the tail up to the head. Makes me queasy just seeing it in print. Anyway, I had a friend once that had a cat that developed an attitude. One day she got home and the whole house smelled of cat pee. For the next few days, she looked **everywhere** and couldn’t tell where it was coming from. Finally, we figured out that the cat had put it _into a furnace vent in the living room_. For months, every time the furnace came on the whole house filled up with aroma d’cat pee. Bad enough but she was also trying to sell the house at the time … ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/13 "1999-12-22T00:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > However, should you notice your cat vomiting a lot, see worms or blood in the vomit, or notice anything else unsual, be sure to take your cat to the vet. ## Yay to take all the fun out of cat barf, Michelle 😉 “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/14 "1999-12-22T00:22:00Z")
Oops, I meant “Way,” not “Yay.” I’ve just been too dang happy lately 😉 Yay! * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Felinecare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Felinecare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felinecare)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/15 "1999-12-22T05:57:00Z")
Cat grass helps control the vomiting. Tip for vomit on carpet: If you can stand it (and company’s not expected) leave that fresh pile right where it is. It will dry out and you can pick it off the carpet later without any staining. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/16 "1999-12-22T07:06:00Z")
If there’s a food splotch left, K2R works great. Just be sure that the stain is completely dry first, or it won’t work. Catrandom, whose cat theoretically has a 50/50 shot at hitting linoleum rather than rug, but who always barfs on the rug. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/17 "1999-12-22T14:42:00Z")
Hey Michelle, if you check this thread again, some advice please. The baby cat with the worms is a ferral cat, who won’t let me touch him. He’s always been afraid of me, even though he sleeps on my bed and does all the other normal in-the-house cat things. I can’t get him to the vet without containing him somehow. I’m at my wit’s end because all my other cats are leash-trained. Any ideas? Cat carrier has been tried already; he won’t go in for anything, including sardines or tuna. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/18 "1999-12-22T15:26:00Z")
missdavis, if he sleeps on your bed and such than he isn’t totally wild. If he is scared of the carrier, you gotta use a little force. Throw a towel over him and wrap him up in it. Set the carrier on end and lower him into it. The cat won’t like it, but you have to get him to the vet somehow. You can also try leaving the carrier out all the time with the door open, so he gets used to seeing it around. My cats don’t view the carrier as an odd thing because it is almost always in a visible place and they can even get in it if they want to. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/19 "1999-12-22T16:28:00Z")
my cat throws up quite a bit when he eats too fast. i try to slow him down by sitting beside him and petting him. it doesn’t always work though, and i always know right away because he goes straight to my room and lets it blow on my bed. i think the reason for doing it in my room is because he knows i won’t get mad at him. i just kiss him on the head and ask if he’s alright. 🙂 it doesn’t really gross me out much, but it’s just because he’s my babe. if it was some straggly cat that wandered it’s way into my house, than some gagging may be involved. but as long as it’s çebeaux, i could catch the unchewed yellow sauce covered food in my hands if i had to. * * * “human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260/20 "1999-12-23T00:04:00Z")
## Ahhh, you’re a buncha sissies! Try cleaning up dog barf that contains half digested dog chow mixed with grass and dog crap from the other dog. (Yes, she’ll eat ANYTHING!) **FixedBack** “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”~~_G.K.Chesterton 1908_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-barf/12260.md?page=2)