I'm ready to throw the cats out in the cold

[deesmomma]

So, it's the first day that I've had the house to myself in over a week because of the ice storm we had.

I'm lounging on the couch, watching DIY and my darn cat pukes all over the kitchen. I go clean it up, get another cup of coffee, finish my show.

Time to check my email and the boards. While I'm in the office, oldest psycho kitty uses the litter box which is in the corner of the room. I notice that I don't hear the usual thumping. I hear her jump out, turn around in time to see her scooting her bottom on the carpet and see chunks of poo rubbing into the carpet. I follow the old hag down the hall to make sure she doesn't find another carpet. Run to the kitchen to get papertowels just when she heads for the carpet in the living room. Right before she hunkers down, I grab her tail and off plops the last little attached turd. URRRGGGHHH! I clean up the rubbed in poo in the carpet in the office. Thank goodness they are all just area rugs!

Back in the office to finish reading the boards and I hear it.....that dreadfully familiar sound. Freakin' puking cat again! This time, he pukes in front of the back door on the tile floor. Why on earth did he go back to the food bowl for more????

Okay, so that is two cats down, one to go. The Princess has been on her pillow on the couch all morning. Hasn't hardly moved. Gave me the look when I thought about putting the pillow back where it goes.

I love my cats dearly, but they are really, really, really trying my patience today.

Have to go find the Lysol...the office still smells like poo!

I know lots of you out there can relate...I just had to vent!

[MidWestDena]

They definitely would have gotten thrown into a snowbank if it was me!! LOL I can't stand cleaning up animal puke--as soon as any of them make the slightest gagging noise they are out the door around here. LOL

[nolagirl]

LOL! your description of poo rubbing is just too much! When I was a kid our cat ate some tinsel off of the christmas tree. The next day my mom found her flying around the house all freaked out. A long piece of tinsel was coming out of her butt with a piece of poo still attached to the end. It was chasing her! And that dreaded puke sound...few things can get you out of your chair faster.

[trenthamfamily]

LOL I'm trying to eat and laugh at the same time!

[arubagirl]

gross I am gagging here.. our cat has only thrown up a few times, but that noise makes me jump right up...

[mvahalik]

The rubbing its butt on the floor is a definite sign of the cat needing their anal glands squeezed. Both cats and dogs do this when they need it done. You should take your cat to the vet and tell them it was scooting on the floor and you want them to check the anal glands - they squeeze them like a zit kinda (really gross) then it's all better. Otherwise the cat will continue doing it and if it goes long enough it can get infected and stuff.

Hope your kitty calms down for ya :) Just remember the kitty may be sick and need attention.

[deesmomma]

Yep I bet the glands need cleaned again. She's had to have them squeezed before. They were almost solid. I cried when I heard her screaming. Better get her to the vet and get it taken care of.

[mvahalik]

Yep I bet the glands need cleaned again. She's had to have them squeezed before. They were almost solid. I cried when I heard her screaming. Better get her to the vet and get it taken care of.

Our cat once had them really bad too - they were so bad, in fact, that they had to give him some kitty cocktail to get him calmed down and they had to pack them afterwords... poor kitty!

[deesmomma]

Mackenzie,

Our cat is 16 years old, so I thought there was something seriously wrong with her since she wouldn't let me touch her back by her tail. Took her to the vet and found out it was the glands. They took her into the other room, across and down the hall. I seriously have never heard a cat scream like that. I was so glad that my DD wasn't with me. She would have thought they were killing her. The vet said they were almost solid. Not knowing anything about feline anal glands...I didn't know that this was a problem she could have. Later my sis tells me they have their dogs glands squeezed every time they are groomed. Who knew?

She's been a pretty good cat. She had to have dental surgery once, but that's the only problem we've had with her in the 13 years we've had her....we'll other than being a little psycho every now and then.

[Admin megansmama]

My goodness - I've had cats for years and had never heard of this! Sounds so painfull for the cat. I hope the vet can get your kitty fixed up real quick. As to the puking - towards the end with one of our cats I must have learned to sleep very lightly because I'd awaken in the middle of the night to the sound of her bringing up a hairball. She slept on the bed with us so you never knew where that disgusting thing might land :eek:

[penny-penn]

One of our dogs has anal gland trouble too. He has had one that was abcessed and had to have it lanced. That was NOT fun!

[trenthamfamily]

I feel bad that our cat didn't do the rubbing on the floor thing but his popped *ouch* so we took him in and they told us what had happened. I was so worried though because it looked like he had two rear ends! He was fine, it healed and they said that it happens sometimes.

[mvahalik]

Mackenzie,

Our cat is 16 years old, so I thought there was something seriously wrong with her since she wouldn't let me touch her back by her tail. Took her to the vet and found out it was the glands. They took her into the other room, across and down the hall. I seriously have never heard a cat scream like that. I was so glad that my DD wasn't with me. She would have thought they were killing her. The vet said they were almost solid. Not knowing anything about feline anal glands...I didn't know that this was a problem she could have. Later my sis tells me they have their dogs glands squeezed every time they are groomed. Who knew?

She's been a pretty good cat. She had to have dental surgery once, but that's the only problem we've had with her in the 13 years we've had her....we'll other than being a little psycho every now and then.

Oh my gosh!! I would probably start to cry if I heard my kitty scream like that.

On Dirty Jobs (TLC show) he does one segment where he goes to a dog groomer - that lady squeezes the dog's anal glands and he freaks out - that's mostly how I learned so much about them. He was hilarious because he couldn't get over the fact that she included that in the grooming and didn't charge extra for that service :)

As for the psycho part - I know how that goes :) :) We have 4 cats and I sometimes wish we could take them to the vet to "squeeze" something out to fix their crazy moods :)

[ILuvMoni]

I can't stand cleaning up animal puke--as soon as any of them make the slightest gagging noise they are out the door around here. LOL

LOL, I can't stand when they throw up either. My cat always gets sick on the carpet rather than the tile flooring, so whenever I hear that noise I take her right outside.

Sorry deesmomma, sounds like you did quite a bit of cleaning today!

[sassue2u]

Well I hate to laugh...but I only laughed because I have four cats and can relate. Actually, I cleaned up 5...FIVE...yak piles in one day last week. I never did figure out which one did it. I'm a big fan of the Lysol All Purpose Cleaner for those times. Unfortunately we have lived in our new home now for only 9 months and the furry monsters are slowly staining the carpets, room by room. For some reason they are usually discriminating when yakking..they almost always prefer carpet to tile. :(

Now as for the butt rubbing on the carpet...my crabby old lady, Maggie (she'll soon be 11), does this on occasion. She is the only long haired cat in the bunch and there are times when she gets a poo stuck in her butt fur. Then she decides to dislodge it by dragging her butt across the carpet until said poo is off...usually striping our carpets to the point where you can actually follow the trail. It's horrendous. And sometimes, I think she actually knows what she's doing and she likes making me mad. Payback time is right after we catch her...I don my latex gloves, grab some scissors that I never want to see again, DH and I lock ourselves in the bathroom with her, and Maggie gets herself a booty trim. She hates it..hell, I hate it,...but you do what you gotta do.

I tell them all about once a week that it's a good thing they're cute - otherwise I would have tossed them a long time ago.

[couponsr4me]

Ok this is funny, at least I think so.

My cat sleeps on a pillow above my head at night. She has her very own pillow up there. She'll wake up during the dead middle of the night and start yaking. I'll be sound asleep, dynamite couldn't wake me up, but yet I hear this yaking sound and I spring up quick enough to grab kitty and run out the bedroom into the bathroom so she can puke all over the tile floor. DH is amazed at my speed and ability to get the job done. I don't even wake up all the time when the kids are crying and screaming yet kitty starts and I'm up and ready to go. He has said that he wishes he could get an alarm clock with those exact sounds for me.

[GPW Mommy]

I can relate!

Two years ago, we were putting our house on the market. I'd spent the entire day cleaning and getting the house absolutely perfect. Exactly one hour before the realtor is due for our listing meeting, one of my cats comes scooting down the hallway from her litter box, out into my foyer, and all the way into my living room. In the process, she left a trail on the hall carpet, entry tile, both area rugs, the runner, and all over my living room carpet. The culprit? A piece of curling ribbon that hadn't...digested.

If I wasn't so intent on keeping from strangling her, I probably would have felt a bit sorrier for her.

[nolagirl]

this thread is too funny! I feel bad for the kitties with poo/butt problems...but the images you guys are putting in my head LOL.

[deesmomma]

Kara and Jen...your stories kill me. I can so relate to each of them.

As for kitties not liking to puke on tile floors...my only idea on this is that they don't want it to splash on their little toes. I've removed all the carpeting in our home and have hardwood in 3/4 and tile in the other. They will run to the nearest throw rug, piece of furniture or bed to puke. Heck my youngest cat will be up on the dining room chairs and start yaking. He will stand there, with his head hanging over the chair and puke...letting it splatter all over the floor.

What I absolutely hate more than anything is when DH goes to work or leaves the house after me in the mornings and doesn't open mini blinds. When I get home, it's not bright enough for me to see the floors, especially when our carpet was the same color as the catfood. There is nothing and I repeat NOTHING like walking through warm puke barefoot! I can't stand walking through it with shoes on either...but barefoot is the ultimate worst.

I actually make a quick pass around the entire house when we get home looking for "Petey Puke" as DD calls it. Pete is my boy cat. We've just always called cat throw up Petey Puke...even if Bubba or Aspen are the ones yaking. Also, now that Aspen is having anal gland problems...we scan for the stray tootsie rolls that sometimes find there way out of the litter box!

I'm glad you all are finding this amusing...we all need something to laugh at.

[Kathi]

Wow! I can feel for ya. We have nine cats and did at one time have a hairball problem but we switched from Purina to Wellness cat food and the problem is almost eliminated.

Mackenzie, Our 12 yr. old Salem looks almost like your Skunk!:)

Kathi