Is it just me? Whenever a vet asks me, "So...any vomiting?" for a split second, all I can think is, "Well? It is a cat after all..."
I don't know. Should I be more concerned when my cat acts like I haven't fed her for years? When she gobbles her food -- which then immediately reappears, virtually unchanged, in a wet clump on the floor?
Is it bad that, when I see my cat doing the infamous "barfy dance" on the radiator, my first impulse is to move her (so that she does her retching somewhere that's a little easier to clean)?
Should I be more concerned that I so often forget about the mess that my boyfriend usually ends up cleaning it up, days later (having only discovered the problem by stepping in it)?
In my defense, isn't the internet full of references to retching cats? Doesn't Henri, le chat noir's film debut make reference to his humans leaving notes for each other on the fridge about this very issue? ("Your turn to clean up the cat barf!" etc.)?
Maybe what I'm trying to ask is, when the vet says, "Any vomiting?" do they really mean "Any UNUSUAL vomiting?"
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