> > > Also, on a less strange note, but still pretty strange, he likes to eat potato chips. that's right. POTATO FRICKIN CHIPS.
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> My cats eat potato chips, too, as well as just about anything with grain. We have to hide our bread unless it's being supervised.
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> Everything you said isn't really an oddity -- that is the way normal cats behave. They don't really understand your words, but they know when you're getting ready for bed by what you do beforehand. Vomiting is normal although it'd probably be good if you got that checked out. And most cats love human food.

Cats LOVE potato chips. I think it's the salt.

If he vomits food, he probably does need to be checked out. If it's hairballs, that's normal, though gross. The gacking coughing fit is your early hairball warning, which experienced cat owners will take as a signal to seize the cat and convey it rapidly outside at arm's length.

Cats lick themselves clean, and all the hair they swallow in the process has to go somewhere. I have a long-haired cat and manage to keep hairballs down to a minimum by brushing and combing her as often as she'll let me. Now that summer is coming, I try to do it every day. I end up with enough fur on the brush each time to make a whole new cat. Yay for moulting season.

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