How to Recognize a Furball Situation
The dark side of cat ownership has always been the furball.
What happens is your cat, being very fussy about its appearance, must constantly groom itself in order to keep up with the other cats in the neighborhood. Since most cats don’t have opposable thumbs in which to hold a hair-brush (and the ones that do are raking in big bucks at small-town freak shows), they must use their tongues. This means a lot of fur gets swallowed where it collects in their stomachs and gathers into what is known in the industry as a “furball”.
After a while, the furball becomes so large and angry that the cat’s body will want to reject it. The cat has little choice in the exact moment this happens, but it seems to happen most frequently during fancy dinner parties. Many inexperienced cat owners mistake this as vomiting and assume that their cat is either sick, or just wants to humiliate them in front of company. But, both of these assumptions are usually wrong; the cat is simply following a natural process called “horking”.
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