Vomitorious
Posted: Mon 16 February, 2009 Filed under: Animals, Domestic 2 Comments »At 4.30 this morning, I got woken up by the notable vibrations of the cat being sick on the bed.
And then at 5.30.
And at 6.30.
I suspect that this is not an auspicious start to the week – although in some ways whatever else happens can only be an improvement.
There’s something quite spectacular about the method a cat uses for puking though – it’s pretty much a whole-body effort, with the entire torso of the cat heaving backwards and forwards before the stomach contents are expelled. Those efforts are enough to wake me up.
I don’t know what’s caused the cat to be so ill. On previous form, he’ll now sleep through the day (not that that’s any different to usual) and be back to normal tonight.
On the other hand, I’ll be shambling around for most of the day, having had a disturbed night and clearing up (all-told) six piles of stinking cat-puke.
Cat vomiting does always seem to be a movement of body-horror-movie proportions. When the convulsions start, I think you have about 5 seconds to put some old newspaper under the cat’s mouth. I don’t normally manage it.
My cat’s always very ashamed afterwards, especially if he hasn’t managed to get to a “toilet place” in time to do it.
Psycho Cat isn’t ashamed, he’s invariably effing furious. Mind you, that’s his normal state of being, anyway.