there's story in the indoor cat where the author, a vet, describes a moment of sheer panic when finding her poor cat mysteriously bloated. very upset, she was quickly on the phone to a colleague, as she had never seen such a thing. while on the phone, she heard her cat vomit up the whole plate of linguine with clam sauce she had forgotten was left out on the stove.

tip: cats are not to be trusted around pasta.