Hairball

Logline:
A fastidious man, desperate to prevent further damage to his expensive rug, frantically battles to get his cat outside before it coughs up a hairball.

100 Word Synopsis:
Retching is followed by a scream and a cat yowling. A man kneels, scrubbing a stained rug, a bucket nearby. He stands and huffs, the rug still stained, and heads to bed. He is later woken by the cat retching again. He stumbles to get to the cat and runs into the living room. Rain beats down on the window as he struggles with the resisting cat. The cat clings to furniture, etc., destroying them as the man tosses it outside and returns to bed. The man, woken by meowing, lets the cat in and it instantly pukes on the rug.

250 Word Synopsis:
We hear the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball, followed by a man crying out in distress and a cat yowling. We cut in to a man on his knees scrubbing his Persian rug. He has a bucket filled with suds nearby coupled with an impressive array of cleaning products. Several more stains are revealed on the rug. Finishing his task, he stands and huffs at the rug, still pocked with stains. He climbs into bed and promptly falls asleep. Time goes by and the man is woken by the sound of the cat coughing up yet another hairball. The man stumbles out of bed to get to the cat in time. He runs into the living room where the cat hovers over a virgin section of the rug. The man screams and the cat looks up. The window behind the cat reveals a downpour outside. The cat, seeing the weather outside, shrinks as the man lunges for it. As he carries the cat, it stretches over his shoulder and fastens its claws to the back of a chair, tearing open the fabric as the man pulls it away. The cat catches hold of a tapestry and shreds the length of it as the man continues to drag the cat to the door. The man tosses the cat outside and returns to bed. The man is woken by insistent meowing and gets up to let the cat in, who promptly pukes another hairball on the rug.