Don’t…move…an…inch. If we use our secret powers of camouflage, we’ll seamlessly blend into the tiles, and they’ll never know we were here.
Wonder Twins – activate, Kelsey S.
Meow You See Us; Meow You Don’t
January 22, 2010 By
Don’t…move…an…inch. If we use our secret powers of camouflage, we’ll seamlessly blend into the tiles, and they’ll never know we were here.
Wonder Twins – activate, Kelsey S.
Can I have the address of these kittens so I can steal them?
Form of…A PUFFBALLL!!!!
Oh wait, we did that already. Drat!
If the name “Powerpuff Girls” weren’t already spoken for, I think it would fit. If floofiness is a superpower, these two are very powerful indeed.
Activate… Static Buzzzz. …Poof… Kitties disappear into linoleum!
Please tell me their names are Zan and Jayna
[Flufferkin powers, ACTIVATE
- Ed.]
They sure are purrdy.
Form of… TEH QTE!
Shape of… SNORGLE!
Pufffluff,
Puff puff fluff fluff puff puff!
Fluffpuff,
Puff fluff fluff puff puff fluff!
Pufffluff,
Fluff puffy flufffluff!
Puff puff puff fluffpuff,
Fluff puffpuff,
Fluff puff!
OMG I am falling under their kittiness spell…. Gahhhhh!
It looks like someone surprised them in the middle of a sibling-squabble and they’re saying “Whut? We’re not doin’ nuthin’.”
The guy/girl on the left is saluting us while maintaining a secure chokehold on his/her brother/sister. Love it!!!
PS maybe they are not members of the Justice League but They Should be!
I am not sure why but they should..
(I told you I was under their spell)
These might be the cutest kittens EVAR!
Wonder Twin Powers – ACTIVATE!!!
OMG ! The orange one thinks he/she is John Cena ! “You can’t see me”
“MOM! He’s getting orange on me again!!!”
ha ha- wave with one hand hold down the opponent with the other! So impressive.
Love the hind end kicking action in most kitten fights.
I LOVE TO WATCH KITTIES FIGHT IS THAT ILLEGAL?
The marmie elegantly chokeholds her opponent while blow-floofing her nails dry. There’s never a good time to do your nails
I want to bury my fingers in their fluff.
The first rule of Kitteh Fight Club is nobody meows about Kitteh fight club. Second rule, is butt-biting is OK, as is pausing to barf.
OMG, I just wanna stick my face in all that fur.
lol @ Saffron… “pausing to barf”
Baby marmie looks sooo sleeeepppppyyyyy…..z.zzzzz….z..z
Let us all take just a moment together, that we may expel our unwanted wet blobs of disconnected fur, in nomine splatria…
T.U.M., I agree completely.
When your that soft you get away with alot of michief! I had to look again. Love photo.
Fluffage!!!
@Theo – bwaahhhahaaaaa!
In my house that’s known as “horking up a furball”.
now for the inevitable: BARF! the pause that refreshes
(I remember the kitty in question seemed unfazed post-barf)
Pink paw pad alert!
that floof needs a brushin’
HORK!
is it sad that we all think cats barfing is funny?
I want to bury my nose in the fluffitude!
omg a gray and orange kittayn just like my baby, hippo!
!
At my house it’s known as “yakkin’ up some fur”.
And it seems strange to me that my cats will be playing, stop for a little yakkin’, and then go right back to playing (or sleeping–whatever). I wish throwing up was that un-traumatic for me. *sigh*
i have one that will back up as she’s horking – it’s like the opposite of projectile vomiting
[Egad, yes, ours ALL do that. It's a good thing cats are also CUTE, 'sall I'm saying.
pleh - Ed.]
Awww. They’re so fluffily cute!
My Eddy is our resident puker. One of his best moves is when he eats half his meal, pauses and barfs it right back up IN HIS DISH. He almost pulled that one this morning, but fortunately I was right there and was able to move the dish out of range just in time. Not cute.
these kitties are as big as my full grown chihuahuas! I picked a carrot the other day and it was almost as big as my doggies!
squeee! I want to squeeze them.
tasty
@skippymom,
yep, I know that meal-time move as well. I have to keep an eye on my little furry buddy when he eats. If he seems to be gobbling food too fast, I put a large bowl over his food dish and pet him – “let that settle for a bit, little guy”. And then remove the dish a little while later. He has learned to slow down eating dry food, but he still snarfs the moist food no matter what I do.
This approach seems to help with the dreaded Snarf And Barf, but nothing helps with the hairball problem except LOTS of paper towels. (sigh!)
such pink toe beans.
Interesting, there’s a picture of me and my twin sister in that exact pose when we were 4.
In our house, hairballs are launched. Just the other night, after a particularly yakable launching, my friend looked at me and said “it’s nice that your cat keeps up with his hobbies.” It’s better than bringing me dead mouses, I suppose.
[Wait, launched? As in, catapult??
- Ed.]
@Ray and Skippymom – try putting a smooth, clean rock in the bowl with the food. It slows them down when eating since they have to eat around the rock. I did that with the dog I recently adopted, as he had a slight case of food aggression when I first brought him home. He has now gotten past that and knows that food will be there for him all day.
Also, my vet said when my cat projectiled immediately after eating, he had a hairball in his tummy that wouldn’t come up and got upset when he ate. After a few hairball remedies, he was right as rain….
BTW – ragdolls or maine coons??? Love them both….
little babies!!!! that one with the gray is a ladykiller
Ah, the resident barfer. Everybody knows one and loves one. I give my girl 1/2 of a Pepcid (10mg size) on advice of my vet. Helps tremendously. She eats mostly wet food, but if she sneaks off to the dry bowl during the day it tends to upset her old little tummy.
Hairballs are a fact of life with 7 indoor cats in the house, my husband does most of the cleaning up since he gets up before I do. The only time he minded was one night he was preparing to cook ground beef and onions, The onions were on a plate on the counter and Mia our youngest jumped on the counter took one sniff of the plate of onions and promptly puked in the plate….goodbye diner, we ordered out that night
Hey, I’ve been on cuteoverload for a while but never commented lol but if you go to bear.org, and go in the upper left corner, theres a live bear cam
Lily the bear had cubs today yay
the orange cat looks mean in a ridiculously cute way.. aww
Living with (indoors) cats pretty much means putting up with cat barf. I’ve gotten used to it, but my current house has a room with a carpet pattern that completely camouflages cat barf. I mean, I can be looking straight at it and I won’t see it. If it is the least bit dark, the ‘incident’ is INVISIBLE to normal human sight.
Of course, this leads to one of two possibilities in that room – “squish! ewww! yuck!!”, or “clunka-clunka-clunka” while vacuuming. I’m not sure which is the more irritating outcome.
The moral of the story is NEVER buy a cat-barf patterned carpet.
@KittehMamax3
I’ll try the rock idea, I can’t get the Laser Eyes Of Death stare any more than I already do. I’d heard of the idea before, but had never tried it.
Thursday evening I came home to two piles of barf and a mangled songbird, I could quite clearly see its spine in the neck area. This was accompanied by clouds of feathers, all on my red Afghan carpet.So it was out with the plastic bag glove, to pick it up and a cloth and disinfectant to clean the carpet. Oh the joys of cat ownership.
Hon Glad, cats gotta do what cats gotta do. Most bizarre carpet mess in my years of sharing a home with cats and dogs: Dachsobeagle Sam the Dog killed (wait for it) . . . a bat in the front hall.
Hello Ed? Not to be outdone by Larry King’s telethon for Haiti relief shouldn’t you make some animal bands to compete? Some people think kittehs don’t care, but they do..
Like the Animals or the Pussycats or the snarly kittehs or the monkeys?
must have gray kitty! i’m under his/her spell
Orange kitty, I’m gonna name you Dreamsicle. I’m gonna have a dollar ready,
and I’m chasin the ice cream truck.
Want da one on the right. Have a thing for kittens with “different” markings…:)
Well. Am I strange to have enjoyed reading all of these vomit stories? Somehow, they were very entertaining and fun to read. (Maybe I need to seek professional help.) I truly loved Gigi’s story about the onion smelling puking cat and the other cat who pukes in his food dish. Wouldn’t that be crazy if humans did that in restaurants? Just kind of barfed in their plates? I hope I won’t have reason to puke anytime soon as it’s not really cute when it happens to me…
These kitty babies are too fluffy for words. I would like to eat them. And then puke up the hair balls.
I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed one of those kittens to huff. Both would be nice, thanks.
Queen of Dork- no… no stranger than the rest of us anyway. I’m laughing harder and harder at each story, while my resident “recreational barfer” is sitting in my lap looking at me like, “What?!”
He too will puke in his food dish, or on the carpet next to it (never on the tiles of course, it’s gotta be on the carpet). I actually stopped him in mid-hurl once by scaring him. I was just trying to get him off the carpet onto the floor before anything came up but he ran off and never did actually barf. I thought I was on to something but the next time I tried it he just came back and did it a few minutes later (yes, back on the carpet).
The worst is when he pukes up a bunch of semi-digested food and our other cat goes over and EATS IT before I can clean it up.
Man, I hope everyone’s finished with dinner before they read this thread…
I am ROARING at these comments!
I gotta tell you, SoccerSue, one of the joys of having two cats is half the barf cleanup! “Thintabby” RUNS to eat what “Thicktortie” has horked up, b/c she eats too fast, afraid that he’ll steal her food (which he does).
Heh. When we have cat barfage issues in our house, one of our dogs is on the spot to clean it up!
o.m.g. look at those faces.
I am also laughing at the barf stories…
I have three cats, 2 longhair and one short hair tabbeh, and it is the short hair that barfs the most. I took him to the vet several times to make sure he was OK and after many tests the vet said “Some cats are just barfers”. I love my tabbular barfer. The only time I got upset is when he barfed right in a pair of my shoes. OH NOES!! NOT THE SHOESSSSSS!!! Gah! It was a sad day when a pair of shoes had to be discarded. Oh the preciousssss shoeses. Preciousssssss. Nasty hobbitses make me throw away the Precioussss!
Um, where was I again?
Oh, yes. THANK YOU to everyone posting barf stories! They are hilarious!
oh the moufs on these lil cuties
I wanna gobble them up
and ewww on the barf stories but OK I laughed
I am NOT a nuff-er
my cat may she RIP coughed a hairball, very eww
on my then mother in law…the best day of my life
I laughed then and still do when I think of it could not
have happened to a nice lady…LOL
Cats are so cool! I just got a new quilt for my bed today. It’s pretty, and the best thing is that my cat loves it. After I made the bed, (actually, while I was trying to make the bed) he hopped right up there, settled in and laid there bathing. He tied the whole look together by lying there looking scrumptiously gorgeous. (I (heart) my cat)!
Q of D. I heart your Picasso.
That pretty little gray lady on the right s the spittin’ image of my Paris (the city, not the airhead) when she was a kitten!
Hon Glad: Me too. Thanks!
Ariel, the gray kittie is a girl–a dilute calico. Caico kitties are girls, except for that exceedingly rare boy calico featured in the news recently:
http://www.katu.com/news/weird/82202552.html
The reason he was news is that it’s so rare for a boy kittie to be a calico. The tricolor gene is associated with 2 X chromosomes, and only a boy kittie with an extra X chromosome can be tricolored.
tblue: Gosh. I never knew that. Thanks for the information!
(learning new things = fabulous!) I can’t believe I’ve lived all these 40+ years and did not know that.
I guess I’m lucky, considering that I have two cats who only infrequently hork, and NEVER eat what the other horks. I’m sure I’d love them anyway…
“cat barf-colored carpet” LOL!
and the story of the cat barfing on the plate of onions! ew! hahaha
we’re looking at two little kitties and then up come the hork stories
Eddy does “clean up” after himself if I don’t get to it right away. I have to admit that yesterday I left for work leaving the fresh, er, product on the kitchen floor, and when I got home there was no sign of it.
@Paunchie, yes, it’s pretty funny–we’re all like, “OK, yeah, those kittens are adorable, fine, whatever. But what we really want to talk about is puke.”
cat owners know, you look at that floofage, there’s gonna be horking!
Eddie just doesn’t like to waste food! Good kitty.
I love them both. But gads that little grey and cream puff is BEE-AY-YOO-TEE-FOOOLLLL!
I’m guessing all of us cat owners had a pent-up need to spill our guts about cat horkage
Saw what you did there.
“cat horkage”
I been LOL-ing at all the barf/horkage stories. My old gentlemancat Mr. Pickypants gets brushed every night. He loves his brushie, and so do I, it makes for good bonding time. I have only to show him his beloved slicker brush, and he comes over to me for his evening brushing. (This also cuts down on the horkages, the barfs and the mountains of flyaway floof, which he manufactures at an alarming rate.)
As for feeding regimen, Picky gets fed wet stuff in the AM and dry stuff in the PM. I don’t put down a lot of dry stuff, only about 1/3 cup. Otherwise it will only get stale, and he will ignore it very ostentatiously (i.e., he will sit down with his back to me, facing the dish of day-old kittykibble, and sit with his tail pointed straight at me, and look out of the corner of his eye to see if I’m watching him, as if to say, “do you get the point?”) He can be very sarca[t]stic.
OMG too cute!! I also had to share these cute little kitteh. I couldn’t stop awwwwing. http://www.olivepixel.com/misc/kitten/
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the horking sounds our kitties make!
OK, since we’re talking about it and sharing our stories, I heard my dear departed kitty Angel’s horking so much that I mastered a pretty good vocal impersonation of it. Talk about becoming the life of the party! I could summon cat lovers out of a crowd just by starting the hork sound and to the very last one of them, they’d know exactly what I was imitating and join in with their own versions.
Sigh. What we animal lovers do for fun.
Yeah, I once heard a comedian say that they should make alarm clocks that sound like a cat barfing, ’cause NOTHING gets you out of bed faster than that!
Puke happens…at least we can laugh about it. Not as funny when my diabetic kitteh does it, though, as it often means I’ve gotta poke her in the ear to test her blood sugar level and make sure she’s not going hypoglycemic on me. Not fun for either of us.
Well, my SamKitty doesn’t barf alot. (Thank the kitty and everything else Lord). But he will wake me up from time to time by hopping up onto my bed and sneezing very wettly onto my head. (yuck). Also, he likes to jump onto the arm of the sofa where I’m sitting and put his butt in my face when I’m sitting there which I find rather rude and um.. yuck and not in the least bit necessary. But he likes to do that. (damn brat). I love him. I’m his slave. I feed him when he demands it.
@tblue
I remember reading somewhere that Japanese fishermen consider a MALE calico kitty a good luck charm for their ships 
They will NOT sink and they will also CATCH lots and lots of FISH 
Yeah kitties will barf in the most inconvenient places. The little stinkers
“Are you going to just stare at us, or are you going to snorgle us??”
You all are totally cracking me up! How did we even get on the barf subject in the first place?! That’s what I love about the comment threads here…we go off on such odd and unrelated subjects. Imitating cat barf sounds at parties? Mysterious vanishing cat puke while one is at work? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You peeps are wonderful! Where else would I read such things?! I wish my sister was still alive ’cause I would have shared this site with her and she would have loved it.
Cats: mine owns me. I was just getting ready to wash a blanket but I have to put that plan on hold because I walked into the room totally prepared to grab this blanket and put it in the washer but I can’t. Because my cat is sleeping on it right now and he looks too comfie to disturb. So I just looked at him sleeping on the blanket, said “awwwwwwwww” and did an about face. Sheesh. I must be a pushover.
On a newsgroup in which I used to participate, we had several animal lovers, and we got to discussing how one would spell the noise that cats make when they’re horking. Someone spelled it as “gwup gwup gwup,” and I think that’s pretty accurate.
[...or "wokkit wokkit wokkit URP"
- Ed.]
QoD, in one of my many cat books there is a folktale about a Buddhist monk who had a pet cat, and one day when the cat was sleeping on the sleeve of a robe that was laid out, rather than disturb the sleeping cat, the monk carefully tore the sleeve from the robe.
[I've heard that one too, only it was the prophet Muhammad - Ed.]
Those are beautiful kittens!
“wokkit wokkit wokkit URP” – jeeze Ed., yer killing me!
I was actually trying to figure out how to spell the barfing noise yesterday, but I couldn’t come up with anything close, so I decided not to broach the subject and look like a (complete) idiot.
Sir, you have NAILED it! My hat’s off to you (never mind the bald spot)
[Well I couldn't rightly have the people not knowing how to properly spell the onomatopoeia for feline regurgitation, now could I? - Ed.]
BTW, my cat’s not too impressed – I put a golf ball in his food dish this morning to slow down the Snarf And Barf cycle (couldn’t find a rock under all the snow). Works well so far!
@QoD,
Your Royal Highness, I fear I may have been ONE of the instigators of the thread diversion. But in my defense, please see #79 for my (humble) observation.
As to spelling the vomit sound, I got nothing. I think Ed and Noelegy covered it nicely.
*big sigh*
This is rather embarrasing but I think I can confess to you peeps. Well, this morning I woke up to a pee-pee mess in the bathroom that SamKitty did. (sometimes, he misses his box) So anyway, I wasn’t really thrilled by that so I just sort of threw some toilet paper on it to soak it up. I just now went to the bathroom to pee-pee myself and I thought that the toilet paper-soaked mess looked just about ready to clean. I threw some more toilet paper on it and to myself referred to this final piece as “the pick-up piece” (meaning I can pick up/wipe the whole mess without any cat urine actually coming into contact with my hands). So what I’m wondering, how many of you out there actually let cat or dog crap/vomit sort of dry up so it’s easier to pick up and not be as slimy?
OMG queen of D ~ please not the pee and poo stories!
wokkit wokkit wokkit URP!
(I’m saving that one)
Paunchie: Well, I can’t help it. I’m curious. I feel very drama queenish here because I feel like touching cat urine will cause my hand to burst into flame.
just use those playtex gloves and save them for cat detail. No more fear of “stuff” touching your hands.
Paunchie: Well, the mess is now cleaned up with bleach. I didn’t have any gloves but have washed my hands really, really, really, really well. I think on my next shopping expedition, I will get some gloves. It would be better yet if this cat would not do such things. I think he does it on purpose and then laughs behind my back.
Yes, well cats are ebil that way. Just like the poster who said, they always have to puke on the rug! Not the tile! Where it would be easier to clean, thoughtless creatures.
My old cat used to “perch” on the edge of the litter box, with his butt pointing out, and then miss the box, or just catch the edge. UGGGGH. Yuck.
I don’t wait for it to harden, but I CANNOT clean up teh puke while it’s still warm.
Blargh!
I, too, have a slight aversion to cleaning up warm cat yakk. I get the wokkit-wokkit-urp thing going on myself.
I also have an older cat with severe allergies–which translates into an inordinate amount of snot. She will sneeze 7 or 8 times in rapid-fire succession and get strings of it stuck in her whiskers. Usually it makes me sad and I’ll try to help her clean up, but I have to admit that I have absolutely no sympathy for her when she does it in the middle of the night. While she’s sleeping above my head. On my pillow.
Sheepishly, I must say that I tend to “accidentally forget” to vacuum up the Hairball Horks® until the next day (or so…). And as I said, no barfed-up food is actually left in the floor w/my marmie boy around. He cleans it up before I can. Good kitty!
Bug-body-part barf is the worst, though! *No one* wants to clean that up!
Lucy’s Mommeh–that lovely “different marking” is called dilute calico. I happen to know a BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL dillute calico named Lucy.
Cat barf story follows: I used to have a teeny three-story house with cicular staircases. One day I came home from work to find that Maggie had barfed on the stairs . . . and onto the stair below . . . and down the wall . . . . GEE-ROSS!!
Ah, now I see tblue already handled the “dilute calico” terminology.
And I WANT that little boy calico with the gray stripey patch on his right front leg.
And I WANT that little drenched kitty sOnnia posted with the dakr poker-tipped tail and the sketch-like markings on his face!
Why must I want every kitty I see?
Speaking of cat brushing: I once catsat for a very spoiled tabby who got brushed every day. She loved it beyond all reason–all you had to do was tap the brush on the bureau and she would come CHARGING from wherever she was. Almost knocked me over the first time. She was a short-hair, and her coat SHONE like you wouldn’t believe–you could almost see your reflection in it.
And QoD: Just remember that the old butt-in-the-face move means LOVE.
Guys check out those pics sonnia #83 put up there. AW! cuter and cuter with each pic. I think I would forgive her for horking in a shoe!
wokkit wokkit wokkit URP! Delightful. After two kids (boy kids) and numerous animals, I’m pretty sure nothing isn’t pick-up-able at this point for me.
wokkit wokkit wokkit URP! just delightful, that is two today, along with the “Whoopsie Tinkling.”
[OK, I think I ought to mention that I got the startlingly-accurate "wokkit" noiseword from an old thread over at ICanHasCheezburger. Classic, though - Ed.]
Sonnia- what a beautiful feminine little girl! Thanks so much for the pictures! Congratulations! Best wishes on being a new animal companion! K.
Wow, and to think that I am so sad to be so allergic that I can’t have kitties. All these vomit stories have both cracked me up and made me grateful I don’t have to clean it up! Dog vomit is very rare in our house, but much like with the kitties, it has to be on the carpet. Why? Why? Why?