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Our 6 month old Bengal has been cleaning up throw up from one of our other cats. She's very quick about it too. Sometimes she finishes it before we can get paper towels to clean it up and we assume she eats it when we aren't home. There hasnt been any health issue except tapeworms from fleas, which we've already taken care of. Is this considered a problem? Thanks in advance!
 
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There are any number of theories about why some cats do this.  My personal favorite, the one that makes the most sense to me, is that in the wild, eating the vomit keeps larger predators from finding it and tracking the cat.  And, since Bengals are much closer to the wild than more domestic breeds, this would certainly make sense.  Most of the sources I went to (I actually spent a good bit of time researching this for you) agree that, grossness aside, there is no harm in it as long as both cats are healthy.
 
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Mamanyt1953 said:
There are any number of theories about why some cats do this.  My personal favorite, the one that makes the most sense to me, is that in the wild, eating the vomit keeps larger predators from finding it and tracking the cat.  And, since Bengals are much closer to the wild than more domestic breeds, this would certainly make sense.  Most of the sources I went to (I actually spent a good bit of time researching this for you) agree that, grossness aside, there is no harm in it as long as both cats are healthy.
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Woah thank you! We've tried to research it before, I guess we were just looking at the wrong places. I really appreciate it!
 
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LOL...I'm not some ace researcher, I just...tripped over a couple of good sites!
 
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Well I just suck at researching then haha
 
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Nah...I just got lucky.  Most days, when I try to search something, I get 100,254,312 matches, and if I try to narrow it down by adding a word, I get ZERO matches!  OH...I just tried this again, and apparently I've forgotten or added a word, because I can't find half the sites I looked at yesterday!  See?  Just luck!
 
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