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Ruthie

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Animal vomit
« on: 28 September, 2016, 09:15:52 am »
What animal could have left vomited-up grass on my back steps overnight?
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Dibdib

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #1 on: 28 September, 2016, 09:16:27 am »
Cats, I'd assume.

Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #2 on: 28 September, 2016, 09:22:03 am »
I have no idea, but I'm doggie sitting this week and one of the dogs has just done the same in the sun lounge, when my stomach feels better I'll have clean it up  :sick:

Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #3 on: 28 September, 2016, 09:25:29 am »
Cats seem to really, really like you and your back doorstep.

Unfortunately, not in a good way.

We have some stuff that neutralises tomcat spray, cat urine and hence does seem to stop them being so attracted to coming back to 'decorate' the same place. I'll check the name of it when I get home tonight.

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Ruthie

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #4 on: 28 September, 2016, 09:54:49 am »
So, not foxes then?
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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #5 on: 28 September, 2016, 10:20:35 am »
Possibly foxes, but our cats have always done this all the time.

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #6 on: 28 September, 2016, 10:33:45 am »
Likewise, all our cats have always done it.  Our dog has done it only a couple of times to my knowledge in her five years. 
Possibly all mammals do it?  Foxes, badgers, hodge-pigs.
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Ruthie

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #7 on: 28 September, 2016, 03:48:28 pm »
Any reason they'd do it on my steps in particular?  Is it territory marking behaviour?  I have no grass in my yard, so they must have transported it, so to speak.
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Basil

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #8 on: 28 September, 2016, 03:52:07 pm »
Any reason they'd do it on my steps in particular?

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Vince

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #9 on: 28 September, 2016, 04:14:14 pm »
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #10 on: 28 September, 2016, 06:45:45 pm »
Cats seem to really, really like you and your back doorstep.

Unfortunately, not in a good way.

We have some stuff that neutralises tomcat spray, cat urine and hence does seem to stop them being so attracted to coming back to 'decorate' the same place. I'll check the name of it when I get home tonight.
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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #11 on: 29 September, 2016, 12:12:19 am »
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

ian

Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #12 on: 29 September, 2016, 08:34:10 am »
In my experience, cats prefer to avoid vomiting on nice, easily cleanable surfaces, and will instead find soft carpets, plush furnishing, or bedclothes to deposit their stomach contents on. There's nothing like the uck-uck-uck sound of a regurgitating cat at 4am to fill me with existential delight. It's not my turn, mumbles the wife. Every-bloody-time.

Ruthie

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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #13 on: 29 September, 2016, 08:39:56 am »
Basement cat killed my container garden.
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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #14 on: 29 September, 2016, 12:49:05 pm »
In my experience, cats prefer to avoid vomiting on nice, easily cleanable surfaces, and will instead find soft carpets, plush furnishing, or bedclothes to deposit their stomach contents on. There's nothing like the uck-uck-uck sound of a regurgitating cat at 4am to fill me with existential delight. It's not my turn, mumbles the wife. Every-bloody-time.

You forgot to mention shoes, cats love puking up in the shoes you wanted to wear next.  If they're being particularly awkward, they'll do it in shoes you were intending to wear in a week's time, thus giving it plenty of time to mature, before you realise what's happened.

Don't get me wrong, I love cats, but the sound of a cat puking is one of the most disgusting experiences known to mankind.  Actually no 2 cat (Alfie) has never puked in the month we've had him living with us, maybe this is why I'm so fond of him.
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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #15 on: 29 September, 2016, 04:49:25 pm »
Wot Ian said. Always shun the lino in favour of carpet. And if you try to catch it with a newspaper they just run backwards to get away from it.
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Re: Animal vomit
« Reply #16 on: 29 September, 2016, 08:33:03 pm »
...but the sound of a cat puking is one of the most disgusting experiences known to mankind...

It sounds worse than it is!