crazyfingers

My cat just came down the stairs from the kitchen to the play room in the basement. He quickly got off the tile floor and onto the carpet - to puke.

Why?

Our house is about 60% hardwood, 20% tile and 20% carpet. Why does he never miss puking on the carpet? He even goes out of his way to puke on the carpet.

Bloop

I don' t know about cats but dogs do the exact same thing. If they are to puke and there is a bed available, that is first priority. Second is a rug and only after that comes the hardwood floor. And then they tend to place it so that you cannot see it but sure as hell can step in it...

I am clueless as to why this is though.

pescifish

I'm not sure if my cat ever pukes, since I have a dog and he might take care of such things.

However, my house is 70% tile and 30% carpet and the dog always runs to the carpeted bedrooms to puke, sometimes blasting in from outside via the pet door in order to do it.

Philosoft

I have also noticed that cats will scratch at the carpet near their puke as if to cover it, as they do with their litter boxes. Althought I don't know why they do that in their litter boxes either.

oriecat

My cat is the same way. Living room is hard wood, kitchen and bath are linoleum, bedroom and hall are carpeted. She ALWAYS wants to puke in the hall. I would hear her start to hack, so I would pick her up and move her to the kitchen, let go and back to the hall she goes. She is better now, I think she finally learned to puke her I put her.

Demosthenes

Every cat my family had have done the same thing, starting to feel puky? They run to any carpeted/rug surface and then after puking there the first time, they always return to the same spot. I'm guessing it's an instinctive thing, the texture of the carpet may remind them of the litter box or their birth box or even their mother. After they've pooped or puked in their spots, it's very hard to get rid of the odor entirely so even though we can't smell them anymore, the cats can and home on those spots. I don't really know, in the past, a few cats that we owed have made my mother's bed, to her utter fury, their personal litter box. I've lost count over years how many sheets mom threw away after the cats pooped on them. So far the two cats we have, the eldest one have long since learned her lesson and the young one's a perfect lady and always does her deeds outside.

crazyfingers

That's odd. My cat has never had a problem with the litter box. That's what he uses if it's nasty outside. But he doesn't puke in the litter box - never pukes in the litter box or on a bed. Just the rug.

I wonder of it's the traction that a rug gives vs tile or hardwood?

sweep

the cat in our house likes the monitor so much it puked it to death, leaving me with a little samtron monitor.

the 'new' samsung monitor wears pussy protection