Cat Vomit: Illness or Strategy?

I had a cat that acted like yours. He looked and sounded like he was going to throw up but if you stroke him he calmed down and never did throw up. (Except when he gobbled too much food too fast.) The vet said it was an "asthma type" of attack and he was actually having trouble breathing due to an allergic reation which was making him panic and try to throw up to clear his airway. Stroking him relaxed him and his throat muscles relaxed and he was able to breathe OK. We switched brands of kitty litter and he stopped having problems.

Cats throw up on the carpet to get even with us for any slight that they fell we have given them. Cats are very sentive you know. Our's will go to the bathroom where we don't want her to just to get even.

My cat puked on the tops stair once, of a very tall staircase, which I stepped in of course upon waking and trying to get to the bathroom.My first thought was, "who the hell left a cold slice of pizza on the damn top step?"But upon looking down, yeah...cat hurl.I think he was trying to kill me, so yeah, I'd say strategy.A little glycerin in the throat once in a while, cuts down on the hairballs and the puking. good luck, y'all!

cats are pigs you have to limit the food and also it would help to add some vineger to the water once in awhile to keep flees and urine problems away they allways choose the spot where your going to step its type o garfeild cat

So true. I have switched to a hairball formula and that has helped my cats. But it was so funny this morning my cat was eating (they eat on the counter so the dog doesnt eat their food) she turned around and puked. The puke went flying through the air. Gross but funny.

That is very true. I think they pick the perfect spot just because they are intelligent enough to know that will annoy you the most

I have thirteen of the little darling creatures so I know all too well about "barefoot barf". We got rid of all our carpets but they still find places to put it to annoy me. One of their favorite places is my clean clothes basket. I can hear that sound they make anywhere in the house but I don't always reach them before it happens.

Cat vomit is a illness, though they usually do because they had eaten some strange, its important take note about that problems on the cats, have a nice day on mylot and happy earnings also.

My male cat is a constant barfer. The female hardly ever does it. There is no end to where a pile of up-chuck might appear. Every once in a while I get lucky and he does it on the smooth kitchen floor. Sometimes it helps to let the pile dry and then it can be picked up in one heap. Even on a carpet, it sometimes doesn't stick. The vet says it is because he eats to much at one time. He is a big cat, not fat, but large framed. Yeah, that nice cold feeling on the bottom of your foot in the morning is an eye-opener...better than a cup of coffee to wake you up.

I have two cats only one is ever sick and i think its bescuse he rushes down his food so his brother dosent est it!

lol oh this is a nasty discussion but so true I put a furball medication in my kitties food because she has long fur this really helps perhaps you could try this rather than hoping your kitty will be considerate enough to do it on the tile lol

Man my cat does this, after she eats too much! She is so fat too! ihave her on the healthy weight stuff but I guess she gets a hairball or something, I hate that!

Spike,my oldest cat,used to throw up about every other day.And I almost always stepped in it.About a month ago I changed his food to dry Whiskas.Haven't had anymore trouble.If he is still throwing up,then he's doing it when he's outside.

The same can be said for dogs too. Our Jack Russell always gorges herself and then gets sick. We made the mistake of deciding to go to Gattlinburg which is over the mountains one weekend and my husband had just fed her some pork chop and pork chop bones!!! (BIGGGG MISTAKE). She didn't even get into the mountains good before she started throwing up. Luckily she stayed in my husbands lap most of the time and threw up on him and all other the door. There were paper towels, napkins and tissues strewn all across that mountation because there was no way I was going to keep that inside the vehicle with the heat on.

Because they are cats of course, lol my cat sometimes has a hairball and does the vomiting thng, but itf you rub her throat it stops, well I thought that was it anyway until you said. Overeating and spilling it when you are having your tea is another favourite cat trick and of course theres never pretend I think I might puke if there's a bit of chicken in a 100 yard radious. Isn't throwing up on the carpets and rugs so much more fun and controlling? ha-ha, don't think your cat purposefully does that although kids are the same. Think of it as like jam side down, which is almost a natural law. I can tell you love your kitty so much to be so concerned when he pretends to puke, I think it is an attention grabbing strategy but lets face if ih he comes to cuddle when you are relaxing at the end of a buzy day he'd get his throat and tummy rubbed anyway.

My family used to own quite a few cats as pets and I don't really remember them doing this. However, I think that it is intersting that your cat seems to be pretending to throw up because she has realized that it gains her attention from the family. I can definitely believe it. I saw someone posting on here a week or two ago about a pet that limped for attention but was honestly healthy and not hurt! *laugh* It is so fascinating to study animal behavior, methinks. I really miss having pets around the house.

I've got one for you. My cat had a habit of coughing up hairballs. Usually it was always on the carpet like you mentioned, but their is one that I bet you're thankful never happened to you. My cat once coughed up a hairball on our computer keyboard. It went over the keyboard and on the mouse pad. That was the yuckiest cleaning of a cat's hairball I ever had. She did it while we weren't home.

My cats are the same way, in that they strategically place the puke where you can't miss it. On the couch, carpet, hardwood floor (where it blends in!), etc. They don't pseudo-vomit, at least. They seem to know where it will bother you the most. That way you'll pay them attention straight away. I must say, it works!

My mothers cats (which at one point were mine when i lived there) like to throw up in the halways downstairs. Whenever i am there i watch where i'm stepping! i wouldnt like to step in a furball! Also my aunts cat used to do the same pseudo vomitting thing. i used to think it just make the furball get unlogged from her throat. but maybe your right maybe it was a cry for attention. they did have 3 other cats and 2 dogs.

cats are often sick to get rid of their furballs, but i do feel theyc hoose the perfect places lol. they seem to like pick places that they know you are likely to stand but not look before you stand there, such as on the floor behind corners. also another favorite of theirs is to be sick in a hidden place where there is no cahnce anyone will find it for weeks, and by the the smell will be so bad you cant go in the room anyway.