My cat threw up on my bed this morning. That's the last time I give him salmon and whipped cream for dinner.
Get a dog. They have stronger constitutions. The only times our retriever ever threw up were 1) the time he ate an entire chocolate bundt cake, 2) the time he ate an entire bag of friendship bread dough that had been proofing - bag and all, and 3) the time he found all the chocolate easter eggs before we did.
Bullshit dogs have proper constitutions. Dogs vomit over something as simple as changing the brand of their food. Granted, it could be because they're bored in boarding and spend time licking the walls, but...whatever.
When I read the first sentence I thought the second sentence would be "They will eat the cat's puke." Because that is what my dog does sometimes. We've always had a habit, whenever the cats puke, of covering it with a box until it dries enough to be more easily picked up. We've done that a couple of times since getting our dog, until we noticed that she somehow manages to levitate the box away from it. As in, I'd come downstairs in the morning and the box wouldn't be knocked over, it would just be sitting next to where the puke had been.
My lab found a pheasant wing in my parents garage over the weekend (for hunting training), ate the whole thing, and accordingly puked it up right outside his kennel too. My mom freaked out and thought he ate a pile of nails. He was fine. On the other hand, my roommate and a friend came home from a bar absolutely shitfaced last night and his friend puked all over his bed right after they got back to our place. I woke up to the entire apartment smelling like Jack Daniels mixed with sour milk. Fun fun.
Brillo pads. My two idiots ate a box of brillo pads. Gave them hydrogen peroxide, they vomited that back up. They ate bacon wrapped dates. With toothpicks in them. They didn't vomit, and they didn't have any blockages. So that's a win.
Cross country is cool and all, but I had so many coaches use long distance running as punishment that it's hard to get out of that mindset.
My dogs have eaten raw deer, elk and moose carcasses as well as pig organs, cattle pieces, dead goats after my parent's last stupid goats died (I cut out the heart and kidneys to eat from the two goats, the dogs got everything else), yesterday they killed and ate a snowshoe hare, and often do they kill and eat voles, deer mice and house mice around my house. I find most cats vomit because they just greedily inhaled their food and that made them puke. Dogs are sterner stuff. And some dumb kitties never get that hardly chewing and just inhaling their kibble leads to just puking everywhere.
^^^^ that. My basketball coach made it a requirement that to play the next year, you had to run three miles a day at the end of basketball season until summer started, then three weeks before school started, you had to be back at school running 3 miles a day again in prep for basketball season. No thank you. Between that sadist and the army, I fucking haaaaate long distance running. I've always loved sprinting, but that LSD (or even LFD) shit is for the birds. Canis - city vermin like rabbits and squirrels are more likely to carry diseases I don't want my dogs to have than animals from the woods/wild.
I played basketball. Luckily we never had to run or else not sure I would have made it. I was in a dispute with my daughter's gym teacher recently. He makes his class wear heart monitors and they have to maintain an 80% heart rate for 20 minutes to get an A. They are currently playing 3 on 3 half court basketball. She swims 8-10,000 yards a day and swims the mile--66 fucking laps--in a AA time. Do you really think she is going to get her heart rate up playing half court basketball? For 20 minutes straight? The thing that pisses me off is that if they don't get that 80% and want a better grade, she has to either go to the gym and run the treadmill after school, or she can take a heart monitor home and do it then. So after swimming for 2 hours, more treadmill running. I asked if he had a waterproof monitor so she could just wear it during practice since that's what the soccer player and cross country runners do. I was just being a smartass as I knew they didn't. She seriously had a 50% in gym. How is that even possible? 100% participation, 20% heart monitor grade. I just told her to suck it up and get through the year. I wouldn't even care about the gym grade so much but she's shooting for a swim scholarship and a bad grade in gym would be odd. Plus she's an awful runner. Does about an 8 minute mile, but weirdest looking run I've ever seen. Swings her arms weird. I've never said anything to her about it, but it's funny. One of my friends said to tell him it's a HIPAA violation him knowing her heart rate. Not a bad idea. Wonder if it would work.
Big argument about that. We wish it would but it doesn't in our school district. With this teacher if she misses a class she has to make it up. The other gym teacher is easy peasy. Exactly. That was the point I was trying to make. Different conditioning for each student. He's had swimmers before so I don't understand why he was confused. During basketball she was jogging in place when she didn't have the ball to try to keep her heart rate up. I never did that and I played the game. Insane. I think she brought her grade up to a B by taking home the monitor and running. But it ended up only being at 80% for 15 minutes so she didn't even get full credit. That's the best part too. They don't know how they are doing until they hand it in. So they can't even track it.
Extra Gravy Soup and salad or KFC? KFC, of course! I try not to eat there very often, because it'll kill me. Not the food - the fact that I want to blow my brains out, because of this exact conversation I have every time I go there. Me: Yeah, I'd like the 3 piece tender $5 Fill Up with mashed potatoes, and an UNsweetened tea. (Every time I go to this KFC, they think I say "sweet tea," so I emphasized the "un.") KFC: Okay, that's the tenders with sweet tea. Would you like any sauce? Me: No, UN . . . sweetened tea. No sauce. KFC: Say again? Me: UN . . . sweetened tea. I know that's not even really correct and that y'all don't actually sweeten the tea and then remove the sugar. So, just tea. KFC: 5.35, drive forward, please. (R-o-M drives to the window) KFC: (handing food) 5.35. Any sauce? Me: No thank you. But, I would like two packs of Sweet N Low. KFC: Did you have unsweet tea? Me: No, stupid, unsweet isn't even a fucking word. But, if I just ordered "tea," you'd have given me sweet tea, which is why I distinctly said several times quite clearly that I wanted UNSWEETENED tea. Okay, I didn't say that last part. But, I wanted to.
Give it to her boyfriend and tell him that he needs to up his stamina so she can get a good grade. Win-win for everyone involved.
Re: Extra Gravy You're in the South. Tea is Sweet tea by default. Especially at bbq or fried chicken places.
Re: Extra Gravy Oh, yes, I am aware of that. I grew up in the South. So, that's why I made it a point to say very clearly and loudly, UNsweetened tea. Stupidity or being hard of hearing is the default, too, I guess. I mean, I didn't think she was working at KFC to put herself through medical school or anything, but still.