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    a few weeks ago the cat jumped up on the couch behind me to start gagging right over my head. it was a whole new level of Audacity that I never even knew existed.

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      my dog wakes me up standing over my face and gagging sometimes

      lovely way to start the day

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          agreed. I’ve stepped in puke on the way to the bathroom first thing before my eyes are even cleared up and it’s not pleasant

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      Well, they see us collect their various excrements so I’m pretty sure some cats think we do that for eating later or whatever else. So they’re actually trying to be nice.

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    My dog - she was hacking and I let her out, she didn’t puke. Let her back in and she hurled all over the rug so I let her out, she seemed fine after puking and cleaned it then let her back in when the rug was cleaned and she puked on it again.

    I threw out the rug.

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    One of mine used to come in from the garden, puke on the carpet, and go back out again. I always figured it was where he felt safe at a very vulnerable moment.

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      Similarly, I figure our dogs choose the carpet over the hardwood because they don’t want to worry about slipping during a puke. Even better on something like a couch or bed.

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    Is it maybe a burying instinct, like they have with their poop? The carpet might seem more like grass or lose ground, where it is possible to bury it. You don’t really want the puke rotting away on the stone ground of your lion’s den, do ya?

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        Whatever the reason, I hate it sooooo much. My apartment is 90% hardwood or tile, and my cat has puked on the small patches of carpet 30/30 times

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          My cat puked on the banister to our loft in a studio apartment. This is the only place she has puked yet and I cannot explain why

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      I don’t know about others but my cat does not try to bury puke. She immediately wants to get as far as from it as possible and will actively avoid the area until the puke has been cleaned up.

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    Yesterday I was sleeping and felt my cat “shaking” trying to puke lol just threw her to the floor poor baby. I’m feeling horrible but didn’t had to change my sheets at 3am

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      The only thing that connects these two comics is the theme that cats can regurgitate. It’s a pretty common life experience. Like, it’s not even the same panels, nor the same location.

      Get over yourself.

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        I felt like more than the theme was common. The first panel and second panel are quite similar in that that both use “puke” as their term of choice over vomit, throw-up, hurl, spew, etc. In the first panel, both cats are stationary and making their statement about needing to puke. In the second panel, both cats are in motion while making a statement about needing to be in motion.

        In the final panel of this comic and the final 2 of the one I linked, both cat’s make a statement of relief of having “made it” in time to throw up. The joke is the same, and is delivered almost identically, except the other comic delivers it better by splitting the last pane up into 2 in order to reveal the location.

        The largest difference I see here is that the comic in this thread cuts out the additional work of having 3 extra panels without the text.

        The theme, choice of words, and when those words are spoken in these comics align.

        Furthermore, this has nothing to do with myself, I have no idea why you would say “get over yourself” when I am not talking about me. I can only assume you chose to say that to be intentionally inflammatory.

        If you are that offended by me seeing more similarities between two comics than yourself, then I have no idea what to tell you.

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          If you are that offended by me seeing more similarities between two comics than yourself, then I have no idea what to tell you.

          No, I’m offended by you baselessly accusing an innocent comic artist of blatant plagiarism because they made a comic about an extremely common theme. Your evidence is that they both use the word “puke”? As if that’s some wild coincidence to use the most commonly used word for something? Is English your first language?

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            Is English your first language?

            No, it is not in fact? I didn’t know I had to submit my “I have spoken english since birth” certificate to you in order to have an opinion.

            I’m going to go ahead and block you now, because if you aren’t an open racist, you aren’t far off.