I didn't think this happened in reality...

[thistlechaser]

So there I was, happily carting home my very extra cheese pizza (the guys at the shop know me and usually put extra extra cheese on my extra cheese pizza). I was hungry, and I love pizza from this place, so all I wanted to do was get in the door, change, and eat.

The first part of that list went fine. I got in the door and succeeded in not tripping over my cat. Put the pizza down in the kitchen, went into the bedroom to change. Pulled off my shirt. Threw shirt on bed. Noticed something odd in the sunshine.

Miss. Kitty threw up *another* hairball. On my bed. On my pillow. GAH.

It must have been sometime earlier today, for the, um, "liquids" soaked way into my pillow, yet the outside of the mess got baked by the sun and was firm/hard. Gross, gross, gross. I thought hairballs on pillows only happened in jokes!

At first I delayed eating in an attempt to clean it, but quickly gave up. The "juices" (ew) had soaked into a lot of the pillow, and so I'm just going to toss it out. But man, there's nothing like the smell of cat puke before eating!

This has been a crazy time for hairballs. I swear she's had more than ten of them in a month, and that's even with me brushing her most days -- and she's a short haired cat! (And it really is hairball, not just puked up food.)

Comments

[fealu-bryne.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, vomit! The last three days of my "vacation" that's exactly what I smelled like. Nothing like getting hurked on. Repeatedly.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

If she's eating regular cat food again, I would try dosing her with petromalt (or, what I give my boys, Pounce Hairball Preventive aka petromalt ravioli).

They're both long-hairs, very rarely brushed, and I have no problems with hairballs as long as I feed 'em to them regularly.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I use something called Laxatone (I think that's the spelling), but I understood these things made throwing up the hairballs easier? I'm guessing by your comment that it's supposed to make it pass through them? If so, maybe I should try one of those instead...

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know how exactly petromalt works, but I think by the name Laxatone, it is supposed to make it pass through them.

Try it, let me know how it goes. :)