Showing posts with label hairball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hairball. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Sick by Stink

It's Twozday!

However, we only have Chili Bruce today, as he wasn't feeling well yesterday.
CB, napping after refusing brekkie.

He'd coughed up a hairball, and foamed at the mouth for a some time after, and wouldn't eat.

More alert in the afternoon.

However, Chili ate most of his dinner hours later, so we feel he's back up to snuff.

Will keep our eyes on him anyhow, just in case.

Since I'd found a dead stink bug just as all of this started, it's possible that CB chewed on it, and reacted to the secretions of the insect.

Dr. Google says drooling, vomiting, and diarrhea can result from a cat eating a stink bug, but the symptoms go away on their own, and to contact the vet if the cat shows signs of pain or is still sick after 24 hours.

Stink bug pic from the interwebs, and this is a pretty good match to the corpse that I found.

Since Chili only chewed on the thing instead of ingesting it, it seems he escaped more onerous symptoms. 

P.S. Manny managed to eat up CB's breakfast, as the non-eaten bowl was set aside as the humans fussed with the sick cat.

I'd set the bowl on the counter, but neglected to close the kitchen screen door, so Manny took advantage of an additional snack.

❤️ Update: CB was purrfectly normal this morning. ❤️

😹 😹 😹 

Monday, October 24, 2016

"Wasn't me!"

This morning, the household arose as usual; the meals for humans and cats were prepared and distributed as usual, the litter boxes were scooped and cared for as usual.  As I turned the corner to walk upstairs to don my work clothes, I spied a small hairball output on the wood floor.  I spun back around, grabbed the cleaning items, and made short work of it.  While depositing the trash, I told The Hubby that 'someone' had coughed up a hairball.  He said, "Well, it wasn't me!"  Made me laugh out loud, and suddenly getting ready for Monday's work did not seem as daunting.

Interrogating the usual suspects garnered little information...

"You have no evidence that it was me!", Angel says

"What?!" exclaims Chucky

Patty O'Malley: "Hey, I don't even go in the house...!