I remember your Epsy and IBD, and others from here, and my Shadow.
Shadow was *always* a puker. Even though it had food in it, there was
always fur in it, too.  I used to think that puking was normal for a
cat. Once he was on prednisone, and for the short period of time that
nothing abnormal came from either end, it seemed that regular puking
is NOT normal. When Shadow's IBD progressed, his diarrhea also
contained a lot of fur.

Hmm. Counting my cats along with mom's, sister's, and nephew's for all
of my memory, that makes 15 cats.

There's been the occasional hairball and sick stuff. One of the  was a
stray who was sick and injured before I got him. I only had him 2 1/2
weeks before he died, so I can't honestly say if he would have been a
barfer or if that was just because of his condition at the time.

So, that leaves 2 that I would call barfers. And Maynard only became a
barfer in old age. He was 17 or 18 when he started puking on a regular
basis. I had to work to keep weight on him.  Kira is my real barfer
cat. It used to be only once a month or so. She used to pass the
hairballs and have poops with hair in them. Over the past year or so,
she has changing to just hacking them up. And it got to be pretty often
til her last vet visit. She has puked a couple times since then, but
mostly from eating too fast.

# of cats  = 2
# of vomiteers = 2

One long-haired, undercoat; one short-haired, no undercoat.

While hairballs are the most common cause of feline vomitting, as
long as remains infrequent there is no cause to worry. If a cat vomits
regularly without forming a hairball. that IS something to worry
about. So what is this for Hairballs or Vomitting for another reason?

http://www.black-cat-gfx.co.uk/

"A cat is only technically an animal,
being divine" -  Robert Lynd

# of cats  = 2
# of vomiteers = 0

One of my last cats vomitted hairballs a lot.  Vets checked her out and
said it was just normal.

One of my present cats never vomits hairballs.  Even when I brush her,
I get only a very tiny amount of fur in the brush.  My other cat has
vomitted maybe 1 or 2 hairballs in the past year.  I don't know if it's
because they're on a homemade raw diet, or what.  I just find it
interesting that they don't have hairball problems like my previous
cats did.

Lauren

I need to chime in here.  I have had cats for almost 20 years.
#1:  Siamese kitty who shed like mad.  He once got a hairball so bad,
he had to have a gi tube inserted because he wouldnt eat.  One day I
came home to a huge vomitty hairball, and part of the gi tube too!
#2:  Longhaired tabby who we just lost in November at 19.5 years old.
Very efficient at removal of hairballs:  vomitted one up once a month
like clockwork!
#3:  Short hair tuxedo - just 2 weeks ago she was sick with a bad
hairball.  Eventually pooped it out with the aid of laxatone.  Vomits a
lot, but not hair
#4:  Long haired orange and white - just like kitty #2- once a month up
comes a nice tubular hairball.  No other vomit.

Beth