# My cat threw up in the toilet. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529 "2005-01-19T13:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/21 "2005-01-19T21:03:38Z")
Your considerate cat is the complete opposite of my Violet. She’s recently taken up the habit of climbing as high as she can before hurking up her dinner. Nothing like waking up to a crusty catfood waterfall down the side of my media cabinet. Or the bookcase. Or the barstools. Or my armoire. Or my folding screen. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/22 "2005-01-19T21:06:20Z")
Which brings up (!) the musical question, “Is it worse stepping in fresh cat vomit barefoot, _or in socks?_” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/23 "2005-01-19T21:11:46Z")
[Bloom County] Dad: “That’s it, last week I lost my job and now the Vega just died. I swear if life dumps on me one more time . . .” Binky: “Dad, the cat just barfed in your sock drawer.” [/Bloom County] ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/24 "2005-01-19T21:29:11Z")
> [@Rebekkah](#): > > he seems to think the bathroom is THE place to go to unravel rolls and rolls of toilet paper Have you tried re-hanging the toilet paper so that it comes out under the roll rather than over it? That’s the way I do it, and my cats haven’t unraveled a roll yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/25 "2005-01-19T22:02:14Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > Have you tried re-hanging the toilet paper so that it comes out under the roll rather than over it? That’s the way I do it, and my cats haven’t unraveled a roll yet. I have not tried this, but I will. Everytime I leave the bathroom door open, he gets in there and b-lines for the friggin toilet paper. And I think he eats it too. \ I don’t know if this is a kitten thing, but he’s seriously the least aware/intelligent cat who has ever owned me. I love him though. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/26 "2005-01-19T22:36:41Z")
> [@Rebekkah](#): > > I have not tried this, but I will. Everytime I leave the bathroom door open, he gets in there and b-lines for the friggin toilet paper. And I think he eats it too. > > \ > > I don’t know if this is a kitten thing, but he’s seriously the least aware/intelligent cat who has ever owned me. I love him though. I used to have a cat, that would… _WARNING: TMI Ahead…_ … dig the toilet paper wrapped bundles, of used maxipads, out of the trash. Then unwind them, then have herself a little snack, while she was waiting for my return from work. It kind of bothered me that she had a taste for my blood. Especialy, when I’d wake up in the middle of the night, to find her licking my eyelids. ---
**Author:** ![Verminary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@Verminary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verminary)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/27 "2005-01-19T22:40:01Z")
Dreams disturbed by noise The cat puked up a hairball– Watch your step tonight. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/28 "2005-01-19T23:03:34Z")
I’m thinking we’ll just be sticking with the betta fish for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/29 "2005-01-19T23:04:17Z")
The day before I came back to school, my kitten hopped up on the table and threw up _violently_ on one of my sweaters, which was laying flat to dry. He is not a throwing up cat. He’s six months old, and he’s thrown up once before this, because he got too worked up after scarfing his dinner. The reason he threw up this time? He ate an entire ponytail holder. One of the Scuncii ouchless elastics. _Whole_. I am in awe. I doubt I could swallow a ponytail holder whole. And, of course, after he threw up, he started running around like a lunatic and attacking everyone’s feet. He is hellspawn. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/30 "2005-01-19T23:28:42Z")
My cat likes to barf in my shoes. He retched on my sneakers just four nights ago. What is about my shoes? If they smell that bad, just get the fuck away from them, then, don’t hang around until you puke, moron. Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/31 "2005-01-19T23:29:11Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > Have you tried re-hanging the toilet paper so that it comes out under the roll rather than over it? That’s the way I do it, and my cats haven’t unraveled a roll yet. It took one of my cats, oh, maybe five minutes to figure this one out and proceed to unwrap the entire roll. Entirely too clever. I used to have a gray tabby with a sensitive stomach and a tendency to eat too fast. He threw up regular as clockwork, poor guy. And poor me because he always hit the carpet. Even if he was on linoleum he’d run into a carpeted room just to barf. There also wasn’t a roll of toilet paper or paper towel that was safe from him. He’d not only unravel it, he’d then proceed to make confetti out of it. Man I miss that cat. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/32 "2005-01-19T23:37:18Z")
My cat has figured out that he gets my attention when he brings up a hairball. So now, if his regular attempts to get my attention (staring at me, sitting on my computer keyboard, etc.) fail to produce the desired results, he starts making that pre-hairball-horking noise. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/33 "2005-01-19T23:54:38Z")
I mean, one time, I quickly went to put on my other pair of sneakers and… Thinks to myself: Uh, did something go “squish”? ::looks down:: ::blinks:: Awwwww, MAN! “What is it, honey?” “The cart barfed in my shoe!” ::snicker:: “It’s not fucking funny! Jeezus, I get no respect from anybody around here!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/34 "2005-01-20T00:16:20Z")
It’s threads like this that make me love the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/35 "2005-01-20T00:36:54Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Which brings up (!) the musical question, “Is it worse stepping in fresh cat vomit barefoot, _or in socks?_” Dr. Xargle’s [_Book of Earth Tiggers_](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1842700545.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) says: “Earth Tiggers sometimes put a hairy pudding on the stairs. The Earthling is made to step on this with no socks on.” So there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/36 "2005-01-20T00:52:47Z")
No, the worst cat vomit to step in is the one that’s an hour or so old, so it’s still wet, but it’s also cold. Ugh. And at my house, we have a word for cat vomit. It’s both a noun and a verb, describing the action and the eventual result. This useful word is “pyukkah.” Usage: “Gross, there’s cat pyukkah on my rug.” “Mom, Misty’s pyukkahing on the rug!” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529/37 "2005-01-20T01:16:44Z")
siamese and siamese mixes do throw up more often than other cats. i don’t know if there is a scientific study on this. just my observation. about once a week on average. i do the newspaper thing as well. i hear the regurg. cry. i seach out the nearest bit of newspaper. slowly stalk up to kitty, who is now doing the pre-cookie toss gag thing. slide the paper under kitty and gently hold her in place. reassuring words and noices are uttered. i always hold nod the naughty for moment or two after the initial bit… she always has a wee second round. then carefully fold the paper and put it in a plastic store bag, then into the trashcan none of the girls can get into. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-threw-up-in-the-toilet/285529.md?page=1)