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I was away at my hometown for over a month and a friend fed my cat. Since I returned, it occasionally poops on the floor (never before), fidgets when sitting as if it can’t stay still, gulps its food, is unusually hyperactive, and often vomits undigested kibble.
Based on your description, vomiting undigested kibble is most likely from eating too fast and poor digestion. Try a slow-feeder bowl, offer smaller and more frequent meals, and give pet probiotics. If other problems persist, have your cat checked at a vet clinic.
How to Discipline an Overly Playful Cat
An overly playful cat usually has excess energy or wants attention. Cats need daily activity; without it they act out to burn energy. A long-ignored cat may misbehave to draw notice. Beyond play and toys, punish bad behavior on the spot with fair, consistent correction, and consider spaying or neutering a hot-tempered cat, which usually calms it.
What if a male cat is not neutered?
An unneutered male cat faces physical and behavioral issues: frequent heat raises hormone-related disease risk like prostatitis and testicular cancer. It may escape and mate, increasing strays and catching panleukopenia or rhinotracheitis. Heat causes spraying, yowling, and irritability, affecting the owner's life.
How can I tell if a cat is in heat?
Female heat signs: frequent calling, especially midnight wailing like a baby, tail flagging, swollen darkened vulva, clinginess, and low appetite. Males differ: spraying urine to mark territory and roaming restlessly.
My Cat Is Too Hyper and Jumps Around All Day — What Can I Do?
A hyperactive cat is often driven by curiosity, excess energy from too much sleeping, a lack of boundaries, or anxiety in a new environment. Spend more playtime with it, set clear rules with reward and correction, and keep its surroundings calm to help it settle into a quieter routine.
Why Does My Cat Have Sudden ‘Crazy’ Episodes?
A cat's sudden hyperactive spurt — zooming, hiding-and-pouncing, or shredding furniture — is often its fixed active window (dawn/dusk) or pent-up energy. Burn it off with 20–30 minutes of play and a cat tree; never punish violently, and crate only to prevent damage.
Our one-year-old cat recently had sudden seizures with foaming at the mouth, and today it happened three times.
Repeated seizures with foaming may be epilepsy. Before a seizure the cat is often overstimulated or hyperactive, then suddenly collapses, thrashes, foams and drools.
Why Cats Get the “Poop Zoomies”
That burst of speed and chaos right after a cat uses the litter box has a name: the "poop zoomies." It is just a behavior, not a disease, and is common in cats but not dogs. No treatment is needed — though if it knocks things over, move the box somewhere safer. Watch for look-alike conditions: hyperthyroidism in older cats (hyperactive at other times too, eating more but losing weight) or pain on elimination from cystitis or blocked urethra. The zoomies likely trace to a wild instinct — the litter box is the most vulnerable moment, so run fast afterward.