Cat Vomit and Other Grossness

Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under family

So, we’re finally moving. The big day has arrived. As I pack, paint, and dream about life in a larger, newer, safer, nicer, fresher and more open house I reach for something that has fallen behind the bookcase.

And I touch…

Cat vomit.
Now, I realize that you find strange and sundry things when you move. A stray sock here, an old wrapper there, a toy, a broken remote. But cat vomit. Behind a bookcase. A bookcase that to my knowledge has never been away from the wall.

OK, I love my cats. I really do. But the one refuses to cover his poop in the little box. I realize that may be because he was taken too early from his mother, but come one! He is eleven years old and has lived with a “motherly” (albeit not fit for human companionship) older cat now his whole life. Cover the shit already! Sheesh! But that is for another day…

And the other vomits on command. Doesn’t like her dinner. Phew!

Is mad at you for not giving her dinner exactly when she wants it (even if it is 3:00 in the afternoon), she eats and HURLS!

Ticked off that the dog chased her? Spew!

Just simply mad because you dared to try and pet her. Upchuck!

Yes, I love her but the hurling on command is getting old. She is healthy. I swear to God she just does it to bug me. And my husband can literally walk around a bit of cat vomit for weeks without picking it up. He just refuses to deal with it. After ten years of marriage the cats are still “mine” when it comes to the grossness that comes with, well, all cats to an extent.

My daughter is learning to speak. Guess what she can already say? “Cat vomit Mommy, look! CAT VOMIT!”.

But the cats will be making the move with us. And I’m sure that within hours of landing they will have pooped and not covered, and vomited on the new wall-to-wall carpet.

And somehow they will find a way to vomit in that tiny space that exists between wall and furniture and it will be there, waiting…

just for me.

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See you around the mountains and canyons of northern AZ!

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One Response to “Cat Vomit and Other Grossness”

  1. Jody on July 23rd, 2008 1:35 pm

    I’m at work here! Stop making me laugh out loud!

    Good luck in your new place. (And all that’s involved in getting there.)

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