Good morning!

[ksmith]

Some strange transmutation took place during the night, as I am now apparently the owner of a 125-lb cat. King seemed fairly content to lie in the hallway while I was getting ready for work. Then he got up and headed into the kitchen. Then I heard...noises.

There's no longer any mulch outside for him to eat, and the dirt-eating is limited by the fact that we haven't had much rain over the last week or so and the ground is hardening up as a result. So, in an apparent attempt to compensate, he has taken to licking the rugs, which means that lately he's been swallowing a bit of dog hair. Which is what came up this morning. Yes, my dog the cat is horking hairballs.

I am hoping this doesn't happen often, that it's simply a case of the wrong stuff sitting in his empty tum overnight and waiting for the morning to beg exit. I gave him a pepto-bismol tablet, and will be refilling his sucralfate scrip.

Everytime I think I may have this under control. Welp, one thing I know I'll be doing tonight. Vacuuming.

Comments

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Silly King, hairballs are for cats!

But if he's going to eat like a cat, and hack up hairballs like a cat, maybe you should give him KittyMalt (or PetroMalt) like a cat. It's a petroleum-jelly based product that enables swallowed hair to pass through the entire digestive system without bunching up in balls along the way.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

If this continues, I will look into that.