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Cats tend to hate car rides for all kinds of reasons, but for some cats, one of them may be motion sickness. A glitch in a cat’s vestibular system, which controls balance and coordinates the movements of the head and eyes, may have something to do with it. But the sheer terror of riding in a car can bring on motion sickness, too, with its attendant vomiting, drooling, diarrhea, and caterwauling—loud, tormented hyper vocalizations.
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