It’s actually not the necks. It’s their anatomy. They have a flap in their throat that stops them from being able to vomit. At least iirc. That flap is really similar to the ones all mammals have over their tracheas, where they split off from the other one (don’t know what the food one is called in english)
It’s not a flap at the throat that’s the epiglottis that is to prevent aspiration of food or water into the trachea when swallowing. The part of a horse that prevents vomiting is the esophageal sphincter that is right before the stomach, it is extremely strong compared to other animals and prevents stomach contents from going backwards. Rabbits and rodents also have this same sphincter!
Mine vomited his raw breakfast on the kitchen rug. Looked upset when I picked everything up without allowing him to re-consume it. Cats... He's got a hairball of the dog's fur. Dog's blowing her coat. Or spider webs. Because he's just that weird.
It’s funny, mine never re-consume their own regurgitation, but they will go sit in the corner and watch as the other four-legged freaks all fight over whose turn it is to get a second helping of breakfast or dinner 🤢🤮
He started off nibbling on scraps of fabric. I use fleece to make cat clothes and sometimes a little bit of fluff ends up falling to the floor. He would just literally graze on it. The number of times I took timy pieces of fabric on his mouth... Ended up taking him to the vet at one point!
He's my third sphynx. First one with a fabric addiction. And spider webs.
The dog hair results from them trying to groom our Lab/husky. (They lick her face.)
Mine found a rogue almond that fell under the couch (high levels of arsenic for a small animal) she wasnt feel good and threw it up. Now when she vomits i remind myself of how lucky I am that she can
It's not so much the flap as it is that the angle at which their esophagus enters their stomach makes it hard for them to bring food up, it's something about the pressure and the angle, especially if they're bloated. But it does make them hard to troubleshoot because then things can only go out one way and that causes a lot of problems.
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u/Knight_of_Tyto Jun 19 '26
It’s actually not the necks. It’s their anatomy. They have a flap in their throat that stops them from being able to vomit. At least iirc. That flap is really similar to the ones all mammals have over their tracheas, where they split off from the other one (don’t know what the food one is called in english)