Thread: Stomach flu in cats?

Hi,
my brother brought a nasty bout of stomach flu home from work late last week. One by one everyone in the house came down with it but me HAH!
But last Saturday morning after the usual 5 am wake up call from my 2 boys (they hadn't had ANYTHING to eat for at least 5 hrs!!!!!) followed by the usual vaccuuming up of their food the situation changed dramatically within 2 hrs. First Vier-Zehn threw up his whole breakfast followed by massive diarrhea (thank God he made to the box for this....). Within half an hour I had a cat on my hands that was so miserable he wouldn't come out of his litter box even though he had completely soiled himself.
So I cleaned the poor guy and then allowed him to rest in my bed (on LOADS of old towels...). His brother Popcorn was not affected. Yet.....
So Vier-Zehn spent the rest of Saturday sleeping and being miserable while I had to keep Popcorn entertained (and also nursing the other affected family members in the house). Saturday night the bug then hit Popcorn, same wonderful sequence (barf.....sh.t).
This morning both are fine again, complaining about me having mixed rice into their food.....
Has anyone ever experienced cats coming down with the stomach flu?

Horribly tired,
HB