Mine just pick carpet over bare floor, it doesn't matter where (of course
high-traffic areas are preferred if possible) - except for Demi who very
considerately goes into the garage next to the litter boxes.

Hugs,

CatNipped

The hallway, which thankfully is just wood

Fugazi (RB) used to specialise in hurking up a nice big furball just outside
the bedroom door....just before an unsuspecting Hoomin got out of bed....and
stood in something very warm and squishy , while Gaz looked on and laughed
(I'm sure she was grinning)

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

In her new surroundings, Persia seems to favour a spot on the carpet in the
living room in front of one of Mom's Queen Anne style chairs.  Don't ask me
(or Mom) what possessed her to have WHITE carpet installed.

Jill

Frank and Nikki used to seek out a rug every time. Once I had a pot of
grass on the window sill. Frank would jump up, eat some grass, then jump
down and run to a rug and bring up the grass he'd just eaten. Then he
went back to eat some more grass. Then he jumped down, ran to *another*
rug and brought up the grass. And so on until all my rugs were 'marked'.
Damn I miss that boy.

Luckily, Mir and Caliban hardly ever barf, and I don't even keep rugs on
my floors any more. It's just laminate or tile, so easy to clean up any
mess.

They prefer to yak on the living room/hall carpeting. The color of the
carpet
there co-ordinates so well with cat puke, that it's impossible to see
and it's
more likely to be stepped in.
OTOH, one anonymous cat did choose to jump up on my cutting/sewing
table,
and barf on a hardback, out-of-print, BORROWED, quilt pattern book,
lying open. It was the only thing in this whole house that did not
belong to me.
Thank goodness for Amazon. I found an identical used book to replace
that one.
It was completely ruined.

Sherry

Oh, on carpets, of course.  Whether it's depositing a meal, or getting
rid of a hairball. Or rugs--the paler the better. The persian rug in
the living room is tops. But open books, that's a definite bulls eye
in cat thought. If they can hurk it up in a place I don't notice at
first, that must mean extra points. They can't ever toss up on the
linoleum, of course. Fibers of some sort always have to be involved.

Melissa

Carpet is definitely preferred over easier to clean surfaces. Or if on
the hard floor, the barf must land on something like papers or a
jacket left on the floor. If the felonious feline is on my desk, the
barf must both ruin the paper work on the desk and run off the side
onto the floor.

When we recarpeted our old house, we chose a color that would just
about hide the stains.  And we have 3, yes, 3 different carpet
shampooer machines (The Bissell SpotBot gets the most use).  One
particularly memorable barf occurred on a morning where we were
preparing to show the house. Mithu started the pre-barf warm up and DH
tried to chase him onto the kitchen lino. Instead, Mithu ran behind
the sofa and did a projectile running spew all over the floor vent,
sofa slip cover and carpet all along the back of the sofa. I was 2/3
of the way to work when I got the text message. I actually did turn
around and go home to clean and cover up the mess as well as could
be.

Our temp housing apartment where we are now has a number of new
additions to the carpet as well. Sigh.

-Caroline S.