August fair in gold and green

[lizblackdog]

More good news: my downstairs neighbour's Jack Russell Terrier is at home and recovering well, altghough he tells me she'll be on cage rest and having to be carried out to pee for some weeks yet. YAYYYY!

in other news... my pets just made me puke, and if I write the details down I might puke again. Let's just say that sympathetic pukers probably shouldn't own dogs that puke more often than they sneeze, or evil cats with inquiring minds and indiscriminate appetites.

urgh.

Comments

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

Do your dogs engage in "sport barfing?" Mine seem to.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Not quite sporting - he looks so unhappy while he's doing it - but Squish is a terribly pukey dog generally. He eats anythung he can fit in his mouth, he eats too fast and has to try again, and he pukes yellow bile when his stomach's been empty more than eight hours or so. I usually give him something in the morning to prevent it but somtimes his stomach beats me to it.

I have a hard time suppressing my own puke reflex when I see/hear/smell him, but the cat trying to eat it pushed me over the edge today. EWWWWWWWWWWW!

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time suppressing my own puke reflex when I see/hear/smell

I know exactly what you mean!

My dogs have this philosophy: "Eat it now. You can always throw it up later."

[the-real-adamj.livejournal.com]

Ewww... our late dog 'Penny' used to do that. So glad I have a strong stomach!

I am now the official cat-puke and littertray cleaner-upperer in this house...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

The dogs clean up cat puke for me (have only had one catpuke incident so far, when Cassie ate too much tripe too fast) and usually their own, but not when it's just yellow bile. The kittens were quite ready to try but it was too gross for me.

Squish would clean out the litter tray if I let him. Vile puppy!

[the-real-adamj.livejournal.com]

lol! Aww, revolting. Had many furballs yet from the kittens? They're the worst if you ask me...

Cats can be such helpful creatures

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

Cleaning up after your dogs. I had one that did that (for another cat) Helped that, apparently unlike most cats, he had an iron stomach. Only puked twice in his life but you really knew it when he did as he let out the most horrible catterwaul. Not sure if puking was physicaly painful for him or if he just hated losing the food (he'd been a hungry stray when adopted).

[baranduyn.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear the Jack Russell is recovering. I told Gabriel I was worrying about a dog all the way across the big pond. I've also referred to your lad as his "English cousin" except they're not the same breed.

As for the barfy factor...man, yeah. I used to have to try to stifle that while bathing my old Corgi who never met a decaying corpse she didn't love. These days I try really hard to prevent barf moments, which means the room with the cat box has a baby gate across it so the dogs don't use the cat box as a snack tray.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww
I hope you're posting the whole sordid tale to nasty_pets!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I didn't, because it's a repeat of a similar sordid occurrence a while back: http://community.livejournal.com/nasty_pets/15369.html

the only difference was I managed not to puke myself last time. Just.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Awww, they're such LOVING dears!

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

I hope the poll wasn't too offensive. I just got a bit squeamish when I was caught short this afternoon.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

funnily enough I was clickyboxing the poll just as you were commenting this comment :)

nah, I'm not squeamish about blood at all. I just have a problem with puke.

[realbabaganoosh.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to jump in here and point out that "Sympathetic Pukers" would be a good name for a rock band. :)