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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2005Otis had Chester's hairball
Hi all: Why should last night have been any different? Why should we *ever* get to sleep through the night? It's either a child or a cat but someone wakes us up at least once. 3 AM today, Otis was curled up in my arms and I woke up because he was insistently licking his lips (do cats have lips?). Being both a mom *and* and cat slave, I could tell that he was going to hurl any time. Sure enough, he jumped from the bed and crouched over the new carpet in pre-barf stance. Not so fast Otis-cat! I ran and grabbed him and stuffed him in the basement. The basement flooded last summer, the floor is a mess, and its getting re-done next month. Better to hurl there than on the new carpet. Then I knew that Chester would arrive on the bed at about 4 AM and rather enthusiastically start purring and grooming himself. I decided to grab Chester and stuff him in the basment too. I found him on Jane's bed - took him downstairs - opened the basement door - and out shot Otis - and they both ran off with the zoomies. I was clearly defeated. I opened some food, which they devoured like crazy. I went downstairs with paper towels and a plastic bag, and found the barf. Otis had hurled up two rather large hairballs. Despite my nausea, I inspected the hairballs purely because I found it amazing that Otis *could* have a hairball. He's got just a little bit of short soft fur. Sure enough, the hair was long-ish and had the distinctive wavy texture of Chester's "domestic medium hair" guard hairs. I've often wondered where all that hair went when Otis groomed Chester - they have at least a couple of mutual grooming sessions per day. Chester just gives all his hairballs to Otis, whose system probably isn't really set up to deal with it :-) Then I accompanied Otis to the litterbox, got him a drink of water, and sat and watched out the back window with them - it was snowing and peaceful. Eventually, Otis tapped me on the leg and it was time to get back to bed. Nothing like an hour and a half break in the middle of the night to make you cheerful the next day. Susan M Otis and Chester Still nauseated thinking about it > Hi all: > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > Otis and Chester > Still nauseated thinking about it Snnnooooooow? I'm so jealous. > Snnnooooooow? I'm so jealous. http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-52_metric_e.html Weather for the week. Mild with snow! We always have at least one snow storm in late April or early May too. May 6 2002 was crazy - over a foot of snow. Melted shortly thereafter though. In the meantime, the robins have come back too early and my tulips have already started to come up because of the unseasonably warm weather of the past three weeks. The gophers are even up and out of their holes. Crazy weather here! Susan M Otis and Chester > Snnnooooooow? I'm so jealous. Plenty of snow here, if you'd like it!  Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca On 2005-03-14, Karen penned: > Snnnooooooow? I'm so jealous. Plenty of snow here, if you'd like it! ===================================== Here in Mass. too, buuuuuuuuuut it did make it over 40, a heatwave. We're right there with you, Susan -- I hardly ever have a night I don't have some cat issue. Christine > Hi all: > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > Otis and Chester > Still nauseated thinking about it > We're right there with you, Susan -- I hardly ever have a night I don't > have > some cat issue. > Christine Before kids, I would never have believed that I could have survived on such few and broken hours of sleep. I used to sleep 9.5 hours a night to feel good! We feel like superheros if we have 5 uninterrupted hours now! The irony is that once our kids are old enough that we don't either get up with them or wait up for them, we won't even *need* that much sleep anymore because we'll be that much older! Susan M otis and chester > > We're right there with you, Susan -- I hardly ever have a night I don't > > have [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Susan M > otis and chester Susan, when our kids were young, DH and I were perpetually tired -- we basically spent all our weekends taking turns with naps. I don't know if yours are young enough that they still take naps but if they do, you should sleep then, too. I did that also. Also, on weekday nights, DH and I would take turns getting up, too -- if it was before 2 am, DH got up and if was after, I got up. Purrs, Christine > Susan, when our kids were young, DH and I were perpetually tired -- we > basically spent all our weekends taking turns with naps. I don't know if > yours are young enough that they still take naps but if they do, you should > sleep then, too. I did that also. Also, on weekday nights, DH and I would > take turns getting up, too -- if it was before 2 am, DH got up and if was > after, I got up. Purrs, Christine Reading "survivor stories" by parents about their young children always amazes me. I am a wreck without enough sleep -- moody, stupid, and to be honest I have very poor temper control when I'm extremely tired. I don't want to have kids right now, but even if I did, I honestly don't think I'd trust myself. I'd be afraid of what I might do. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > We're right there with you, Susan -- I hardly ever have a night I don't have > some cat issue. Same here -- in fact, last night was one such night! At least one of my guys has "litterbox issues", so the half-bath is covered with newspaper all the way around the box. (Thank goodness the floorcovering is vinyl!) And whatever they deposit, they start trying to cover it up with the rest of the newspaper. This rather noisy process usually starts around 4 a.m., and continues until I drag myself out of bed, stuff the papers in the covered trashcan, scoop the litterbox for good measure, and crawl back into bed. About the time I doze off, there's another one in there scrabbling the papers around. Repeat cleaning process and return to bed. Dozing off once again, there's T.K. scrabbling papers, but he just does it 'cause the big boys do, so I take him back to bed with me for a quick snuggle (then he has to go see what the others are doing -- very busy little boy). Then when I really did get back to sleep, Abbie (the d*g) was playing with her "baby", a truly hideous stuffed toy with an extremely LOUD squeaker [note to self: extract squeaker TODAY], but by the time I realized that yelling wasn't going to work this time and stomped out into the living room to take it away from her, Jean had already put the "baby" in time-out for being so noisy. Back to sleep once more, and I overslept -- didn't get up until 8 a.m.! Horrors! Luckily I work at home, for myself, so no problems with my boss... Nina in Texas, servant to: Snickelfritz (RB), Pixel (RB 12/03), Rusty (RB 9/04), Seth (RB 12/04), Skeeter, Kyle, Jake, and T.K. [Tuxedo Kitty] SignatureProfessional proofreading doesn’t cost – it pays! ninaproofs@earthlink.net www.ninaproofs.com I know it sucks that you can't get a full night's sleep, but still, aaaaaaaw! How sweet is it that they are such good buddies! They even share hairballs ;-) -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Hi all: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > insistently licking his lips (do cats have lips?). Being both a mom > *and* and cat slave, I could tell that he was going to hurl any time. > Sure enough, he jumped from the bed and crouched over the new carpet > in pre-barf stance. Not so fast Otis-cat! I ran and grabbed him and > stuffed him in the basement. The basement flooded last summer, the > floor is a mess, and its getting re-done next month. Better to hurl [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Despite my nausea, I inspected the hairballs purely because I found > it amazing that Otis *could* have a hairball. He's got just a little > bit of short soft fur. Sure enough, the hair was long-ish and had > the distinctive wavy texture of Chester's "domestic medium hair" [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Otis and Chester > Still nauseated thinking about it >I know it sucks that you can't get a full night's sleep, but still, > aaaaaaaw! How sweet is it that they are such good buddies! They even > share hairballs ;-) I'm sure in the cat world, that's pretty special :-) Susan M Otis and Chester > Eventually, Otis tapped me on the leg and it was time to get back to bed. > Nothing like an hour and a half break in the middle of the night to make you > cheerful the next day. Aww! At least Otis wants you to go back to bed eventually. When Frank gets me up in the middle of the night, he doesn't let me go back at all. LOL about the hairball. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >Hi all: > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >Otis and Chester >Still nauseated thinking about it YIKES! BTW, I think this has to be one of the strangest subject headings I have ever seen. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Chester's "domestic medium hair" guard hairs. I've often wondered where all > that hair went when Otis groomed Chester - they have at least a couple of > mutual grooming sessions per day. Chester just gives all his hairballs to > Otis, whose system probably isn't really set up to deal with it :-) Awwww.... such good boys!!!! We too have a hairball sharing program, it's very hard to tell who was the barfee... :) SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com Lol! Poor Susan, bad enough for Otis to get a hairball from grooming himself, let alone Chester! My cats are both shorthaired and until a few months ago I'd never seen a hairball. Something slightly slimy, shaped like a finger and made of hair, upchucked on the rug in front of the fire while I was out, was identified by this group as a hairball. First ever, and up to now, the last. <boast> OK, I now expect to see a lot of them because I boasted, <g> serves me right. Tweed > Hi all: > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Otis and Chester > Still nauseated thinking about it |
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