[Blessings2You]

Sitting here at my computer, happily reading posts, when I hear a yowl and that familiar "gack gack gack". There's my cat, leaning over the carpet AND my shoes, ready to barf.

I leap (ha ha) out of my chair, grab the cat to move her a few inches onto the vinyl floor, she doesn't like the idea, and stabs a claw nail into a vein on the inside of my wrist.

The cat's trying to yack, I'm trying to unhook her from my circulatory system, the other cat's hurrying over to see what she's missing, I'm yelling "OW OW OW" and my husband's standing there trying to figure who or what to grab. Holy cow.

Everything's all mopped up now, the bleeding has stopped, I've got a blue lump on my wrist, and the cat peeled out and headed under a dresser. Just another day in the life.

[Kitty]

Sorry.....but I had to laugh. That's an unmistakable sound (cat yaking) for cat owners. There's never a newspaper within reach, either!

I tried to move Gracie once, too, but she dug into the rug and wouldn't budge. I don't guess I'd want anyone scooping me up and moving me if I was standing over the loo!

Tigger hides afterwards, too. Gracie keeps returning to the scene of the crime.

[SallyC]

At least you could leap up from your seat..

I just sit helplessly hollering...NO, kitchen please, kitchen....then I go clean it up...gack!!!

[hollym]

It is the law of nature that cats only yak on surfaces which are not easily cleanable. My house is 90% hard surfaces except for an expensive area rug and carpet in the game room. Where does the cat yak? Not on the hardwood, not on the ceramic tile, not on the laminate, oh no not ever. Yak must always be on the expensive Aubusson rug. I have even moved a cat off of said rug only to have them go straight back!

[Dejibo]

I have a puker in my house. he is a HUGE orange tabby that thinks he is a bottomless pit. He simply eats till it comes out his nose, he then turns and spews! I have taken to standing guard over the 22 year old when I give her "junk food" and make sure that he doesnt crowd her out and gobble it all. I try really hard to keep him on dry, but he does find trouble when and where he can.

Why do they ALWAYS find the carpeted areas? Cant puke on the tile or an easy to wash area, nope, must find carpets. After years of being chucked on the floor, mine have the idea now that gak gak gak means go to the floor. not the couch, not the bed, and not the table!

hope you feel better.

[ewizabeth]

The only thing worse is if you hear that sound at 2am and you're sleeping snugly with the cat curled up under your arm. You just hope that it hits the lower part of the blankets or better yet, the floor as the dear kitty tries to get out of the room.

Get well soon B2Y, so many of us can relate.

We also had this wee little kitty, Sweet Pea who was famous for going to the highest point in the room before doing projectile vomiting. She could take out more objects in one hurl than any mammal I've ever seen before. She only weighed six pounds.

[PolarExpress]

We have four cats..Oh, if I had a nickel for every time..
Pick 'em up & move 'em, the urge suddenly leaves them. Till they're back on the carpet ~ immediantly back in barf mode. I've even tried slipping newspaper under them to save myself from having to scrub the carpet, but no, they'll have none of that. Fortunately, it's usually a small furball packet. But when my orange tabby overeats, cover the old people & hide the children!

[Erin524]

My dog (that died in 2006) had tummy problems. He always had to puke on (white) carpeted floors, and in the corners...so I couldnt throw conveniently a blanket or towel under his head if I had one laying around.

Oh, and he weighed more than 100 pounds, and when he puked, it was one of those "ohmygosh...where does he keep all that in there???"

Do you know how hard it is to clean about 5 pounds of partially digested dog food and bile off of carpeted floors? (word of warning...dont use a vacuum unless it's a wet/dry vac...my dad used to use our good Kenmore vacuum to clean Tiny's vomit up. You can still smell it...good thing we bought an Oreck a few weeks ago)

At least sometimes when he was puking, I could guide him towards the door sometimes and get him outside, he wouldnt turn around and rip my arms from their sockets that Han Solo told C3PO and 3PO told R2D2 to "let the wookie win..." (because it was 3PO who was going to lose arms if Chewie lost the game) But, that's only because I did a lot of training with Tiny so that he'd let me manhandle him when he was sick or hurt. (100+ pound dog, it was a self defense tactic to make sure that I could touch him anywhere I wanted to without getting my face ripped off)

Know what's worse than a 100+ pound vomiting dog? A 100+ pound vomiting dog who also has uncontrollable diarrhea...

[ewizabeth]

Originally Posted by PolarExpress

Pick 'em up & move 'em, the urge suddenly leaves them. Till they're back on the carpet ~ immediantly back in barf mode .... when my orange tabby overeats, cover the old people & hide the children!

Originally Posted by Erin524

My dog (that died in 2006) had tummy problems. He always had to puke on (white) carpeted floors, and in the corners...so I couldnt throw conveniently a blanket or towel under his head if I had one laying around.

Oh, and he weighed more than 100 pounds, and when he puked, it was one of those "ohmygosh...where does he keep all that in there???"

You guys crack me up. Aren't pets funny?? It's hilarious how they just have to get back on the carpet when you try to move them. We laugh about it now...

[kicker]

I have a cat (eating all the dry food fast to form a yak food sausage like thing, with some liquid stuff I can't/don't want to identify, yaked on on my brand new sheets. DH's response was to move sheets so it didn't show, hanging down on his side. I could smell something (he didn't care), found it, stripped the bed, washed in Hot water, bleach etc.. He thinks me overly sensitive!! MEN! I have 5 cats, I frequently find yak here and there. As 2 year old DD would say at Alphabet book near end and they showed Yak for Y - "YUK"