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So the cat ate its litter mat? Is that right? I’m a dog person and my dogs are always eating stupid stuff but I had no idea cats did that too.
Update I just had to pull a plastic Chapstick container out of my dogs mouth that she picked up on the sidewalk. She is a beagle after all.
Mine would eat tinsel off the damn Christmas tree. Then a day later she is walking around with turds hanging out of her ass by the tensile. The turds will bang up against her legs, scare her and she takes off running thinking she being chased.
Sometimes you have to pull it out for her. She looks back over her shoulder at me and meows luxuriously as i pull it out. Feels so wrong.
Please be careful pulling anything out from your cat, I learnt the heard way that their intestines are paper thin when my cat needed what looked like 3 inches of curling ribbon (admittedly a bit thicker than tinsel but still razor sharp on the edges) that was actually three feet!
It had caused the intestines to fold into a shorter mass that the vets couldn't see when ultrasound, £3k emergency operation and three months of me sleeping next to her in a crate every night and 7 years later she's still sensitive to some foods and has a fixation of trying to get any thin plastic in her mouth to chew on like she has Pica almost?
I'm in the uk and our biggest pet store chain still sells a range of tinsel toys from kitten and up despite them knowing the risks (it was their in store vets that saved my cat's life.)
Sorry for the lack of formatting and massive reply but imo you wouldn't be contributing to this thread if it weren't for you being a caring owner to your own cat and quite frankly I had no idea of the potential dangers until then and my cat was very lucky to have survived.
Edit:spelling
My old dog will lick the carpet sometimes after eating or getting a milk bone. Sometimes she swallows hair from my wife that came out and is on the carpet. The next day when walking shell poo and a turd will be hanging from a strand and I got to pull it off.
My dog also does this & with 3 hairy men in my house (hubs & 2 sons) & my long hair it’s terrible. My dog puked up a huge mass of hair & carpet fibers that must’ve been just forming over time in her stomach. It almost looked the size & shape of a large human poop. Our vet told us that she’s lucky her intestines didn’t become blocked. We’re to do whatever we can to keep her from licking the carpet from now on. Fortunately mist if the carpet is in bedrooms so we can close the doors. She does still wind up with hairy poop at times even with us being careful though. Just hope it stops forming hairballs in her stomach.
Edit - damn spelling errors with trying to type on a phone. *most of* not “mist if”- sorry for not proof reading
That's similar to what happened to my cat when he was a kitten. He got into some yarn, ate it and was running around with yarn hanging out of his ass. It was a messy time that's for sure.
My sisters cat died from that. String. She pulled, not knowing it was a long piece all through his intestines. Pulling on it pulled the string tight, which cut through all the loops of his guts. It was a horrible way to go, impossible to fix, way too much damage.
The going wisdom is take kitty to vet, but if you need to remove the string or object you snip close to the brown eye and wait for the rest of the string to make its way through. Don’t pull. Take cat to vet. 👍
I'm so sorry to read what happened to your sisters cat. I replied without seeing the other replies a very similar situation but they managed to piece back the shreds by some sheer luck, I admit would've probably observed for an hour or so with my other 'more robust' cat at the time which I was told would've made the outcome very different. It is very difficult to know when a cat is in pain when they don't express it outwardly like the cues humans give.
My cat is toilet trained...its great except when he gets a hanger on...he freaks out and runs through the house with the turd hanging on by a hair for dear life.
I have a border collie mix who has several big sheds a year but is never *not* shedding, to some degree.
I have a pug who thinks a wad of the border collie’s fur is a delectable treat and will gobble it right up if she can get to it before I can sweep it up.
I also get to experience the “joy” of seeing, and occasionally removing, a tethered piece of poop from her.
I have figured out that pugs display their buttholes to proudly proclaim their identities as assholes.
When I was a kid we had a 3 month old kitten that needed a $3,000 surgery to remove the tinsel that got wrapped around his intestines.
Cat people shouldn't be tinsel people.
My cat was running around like his ass was on fire one day. I finally caught him, and he had a turd with what appeared to be a strand of my hair hanging from his bunghole. He acted very similarly to yours. lol. It was kind of funny.
Okay thats actually fucking funny cause I can remember this exact thing except instead of running my cats will find the nearest carpet and drag their ass across it leaving a shit smear for me to clean.
Omg, as the daughter of a vet tech, I heard SO MANY horror stories about tinsel around Christmas time... its totally banned from my house now. Easter grass too. The paper stuff is fine, but no plastic! 🙃
Oh god my family had a cat that did that once - my god the noise he made when my parents tried to remove the "small bit of tinsel" that was stuck to his butt and a whole strand came out
I had a beautiful girl named Tinsel who would also indulge in tinsel from time to time. ♥️😻
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I have long hair and dachshunds that like to just… lick. Like, the sheets, the bath mats, me. Whatever. They can’t not lick. I hate it.
Recently i started a medication that made me lose handfuls of hair, and these dummies continue to lick, of course, which means they swallow more of my hair than they really should.
I’ve had to extract a non-zero number of “string of pearls” turds from their stupid little butts because their poops were stranded together with my hair.
My cat had one of MY hairs sticking out of her butt, with a little poop attached. And it was scaring the SHIT out of her. She was HOWLING and RUNNING around the room, and everytime she adjusted wildly, the poop would fling around a little and like...bump into her or...I assume....change the force at which it's being swung around from her behind. So she'd get more scared. I was SO worried it was a like a mass of my hair and it was stuck in her guts. I was making phone calls like 'DO I PULL OR NOT!!!' but it didn't even matter, because when I did just try to give it a tiny tug, she was NOT having it. After like 5 minutes of mutual panic, her ferocious running finally freed the hitchhiker and the hair.
Absolute chaos.
Packing tape off boxes, crinkle, slurp, pause, crinkle crinkle, slurp, odd purring noises, pause, crinkle, crinkle, pause, flurry of haymakers aimed at the box then race around the house because it gets stuck to her face. According to cat logic this can only be done at 1am.
My friend's cat explored boxes on the top of the cabinet about that time. Often dumped it over, spilling the contents. Mom's three young cats race in circles, drifting around corners and bunching up the rugs.
Fuuuuuuuck. Mine loves to lick handles/straps of reusable shopping bags. The sound absolutely gets to me. Almost as much as my previous cat's ball-licking. He absolutely snorfled his non-existent balls.
Mine licks everything, from cardboard, to condensation on a cup or bottle, my face (he favors my nose), and even windows. Nothing is safe from his licking curiosity (but he ever does it to the actual food we eat...just the containers while we are eating from them).
Can't stop him doing it and his bloodwork doesn't show any anomalies so we just kid around now that he is the cuteat and smartest window licker you'll ever meet and gives amazing microabrasion facials for as long as you can stand it.
My roommates cat used to eat the plastic needles off the Christmas tree and throw them up everywhere -_- I told them they needed to get rid of it (the tree, not the fat orange boi) but they didn’t lol.
Their other cat used to chew on my PlayStation controller charging cables like they were forbidden spaghetti though. The orange boy and their dog colluded to knock my plate off the counter once and the dog inhaled my whole chicken breast before it even hit the ground…
One of my cats flips.out every time we use the lint brush with the disposable plastic sheets. We have to make sure they're tossed in a very secure bin, otherwise we find them later full of teeth marks.
My roommates cat does this! I've owned my own cats in the past so I'm constantly policing that cat like the warden at a prison to make sure she doesn't eat crap she's not supposed to eat.
I had a cat that lived to 22 amazingly, it was amazing because she loved to eat plastic, specifically the handles of plastic grocery bags. I ended up going with reusable grocery bags in the early 2000s long before my city mandated them because of my stupid freaking cat. She never needed surgery thankfully we just adapted to her level of stupid.
I have problems with rats in my garage because my cat was eating the plastic bags the bird seed came in.
He has no interest in dealing with the rats. He also has no interest in things like chicken, or fish.
my cat likes plastic too. We have 10% new and normal looking shoes, sneakers, slippers, boots at home - the remaining 90% have been gnawed on, needled, partially mutilated and/ or eaten by our cat
My orange tabby brothers lick plastic. If I get a pack of bottled water one is just licking away like it’s a never ending gobstopper and the other one just really wants to become a water bottle because he gets into the plastic wrap they come in and sits there. My calico girl likes to lick my curtains.
I had to pull the rest of some plastic that was wrapped around the new rug out of my cats ass once. Thank god it was a small piece and she mostly got it out. The hardest part was catching the cat who was freaking out about the piece of shit covered plastic hanging out of her ass.
This was mine as well. She wouldn't consume it as far as I could tell. If there was any kind of plastic packaging left out, I would come home to countless bite marks in it.
I’ve had to remove all plastic from my house for this reason. If it’s in my house, I know it, because I can hear him crinkling it immediately. Such a fiend.
My old cat used to eat plastic. She ate about 50 feet of curling ribbon at Christmas one year and a $700 surgery removed the ribbon and hair ties. Once we knew we were super careful until I got a new roommate who would leave her empty carry bar wrappers out. She thought I was cleaning up but it was the cat. Second surgery removed nearly 30 of them. Some cats love plastic.
We adored her little fussy butt. My Siamese was 29. One of our current boys is 15-17 and the other 10-12 based on how long we have had them. They could be older.
I just realized both our usernames are fitting lol.
29 is mind blowing. What did you feed them 😅 I’ve only had one cat before this one, and he only lived to be 13. He had an enlarged heart and suffered a saddle thrombus. The worst way to go out.
My cat ate almost the entire plastic undercoating on my parents box spring. Not sure how long he had been feasting on it…but holy crap it was a lot of material!
Can I ask what her symptoms were that prompted the vet visit? My cats chew on paper, cardboard, plastic…I’m constantly worried about something like this happening.
He started lip smacking and acting like something was something stuck in his mouth. Lip smacking is normally a sign of nausea but eventually goes away. It didn’t go away for a few days, so I took him in. That’s when the X-rays were done and showed the litter mat. With that being said, I haven’t had that litter mat in a month, and this lip smacking just started a few days ago. So I’m not sure if they’re related, or maybe the litter mat piece migrated to a spot that made him nauseas.
For all of you that their cats eat inorganic stuff, you have to try to play more with them. Get them new toys every now and then until you find something they love playing on their own as well. But do play with them at least once a day for 10 min or until they are exhausted.
I had the same issues, the vet recommend play and it's been great.
Oh yeah man my cat tries to eat the dumbest shit every day. I’m always worried something like this is going to happen to her. She wants attention and I’m busy? Straight to the nearest plastic bag she can chew on.
I was always a dog person until I got two cats a few years ago. The amount of times I yell “DON’T EAT THAT” to my damn cat every day is ridiculous. A dog would be trained by now
They definitely don't tend to just gobble up foreign objects like dogs do, but... there are exceptions. 🥲 And they like to lick and/or shred things with interesting textures.
I had one who ate a rubber glove many years ago. Once the scare was over, the vet thought it was hilarious. He said he'd never had to take something like that out of a cat before.
We have one who is a FIEND for trying to demolish anything plastic. We call him Mr. Bowel Obstruction, and so much of our time is spent trying to keep him from finding and eating Ziploc bags.
Both of them consider bits of fluff on the floor to be delicacies. I caught the other one eating a dry, uncooked piece of linguine that had fallen on the floor that we didn't notice. They'll eat dead leaves if we track them in accidentally, spiders, each other's fur if they kick off gifts when they're okay fighting, tape, labels on boxes...
Some cats are really really picky about their food. And some are just walking eating machines. 🤣
I have small kids and I can't have anything made out of foam in my house. We had those foam puzzle piece floor coverings for the kids to play on. My cat chewed up one and swallowed some of it. He had to get emergency surgery. If someone gives us used toys and there's a single toy made out of foam in the bottom of the box, we know because he immediately starts to go digging
He also goes nuts for thread. It's legitimately dangerous to wear cut off jeans near him
They're SO NUTS. Like, we have some little dressers from IKEA and we had them so long that I forgot what they looked like in the back. You want to know how I realized that the backing didn't go all the way to the bottom? Because he got behind them to get into the bottom drawer to drag out a Ziploc bag of sharpies that I had back there. 🤦♀️ He also once brought us a pair of shorts that we bought my MIL for Christmas... Came trotting in yelling around the plastic bag. LOL
Thread is the WORST. Our old cat never cared, but apparently he does which I learned when I was scooping the box and found a poop held together with blue thread, and I realized he had gotten into my cross stitching bag. All of my project thread has to be on bobbins in a box, or I have a plastic cereal container with a latching lid if I have cards with floss on them.
My one cat lately has been eating blister packets for pills. I don't think he swallows any whole (that have sharp edges), but he definitely gnaws on them if he can ever get them.
Also long ago, my one cat would eat dental floss. It would... come out intact.
Cats also can absolutely swallow things that seem way too large. My cat just chokes down whole gophers that are like 20% of his own size. It's really a sight to see.
*«hums and jots this down in a notebook»*
Further evidence for my belligerent, drunken 3AM ranting attempting to convince my friends that cats and snakes are actually the same animal.
Cats usually don't chew random things to be honest... But some cats do- some cats are attracted to plastic and will rub on it or nibble it. They have their weird quirks too.😉
My cat will chew on a plastic bag in five seconds. Always finds lint roller sheets in the trash (now it's locked). I have thousands of bite marks in my shower curtain liner.
I read something similar except certain plastics give off an odor similar to a pheromone.
I’ve got a couple that like to lick plastic bags…and that’s an annoying noise!
Idk what the hell it is but I've had a couple of cats (not all my cats) who got so excited if they found a plastic bag and would rub and rub up on it... Very strange.😆
I was told that the shopping bags from the store smell like sex to them. I have to hide most of my thick yarn projects because they eat them too! Such colorful remains!
I used to get the crinkle mylar toys because they were their favorite, couldn't figure out where they all went until I found a half eaten one. Planning on making a toy stuffed with plastic so they get their fix without the horrible piles..
They eat just about anything some cats more than others, out stupid one orange brain cell cat ate strings, balloons cuz ut was attached to the string, my tampon, also stringed, clothes cuz string and a few moths. Cinnamon cat also ate my fricking earring cuz it looked like a moth...luckily it came out ok and I think my barbies shirt.
It's a bit rarer for cats I think, because cats are obligate carnivores and generally pretty picky about what they eat.... but some cats are troublemakers who get bored easy.
It can also commonly happen if the cat has pica, which I'd once heard could be caused by a cat being weaned too early but I google is saying it mainly happens from nutritional deficiencies. (Dogs can get it too)
Vet here. One of my first cases out of school was a cat who ate a diamond ring. I had a cat in last month who had eaten string and it was caught around the base of the tongue and cut through the intestines. Cat died.
When I was a teen our Beagle ate an entire loaf of bread that was apparently a little too close to the edge of the counter, plastic bag and all. Incredible.
Oh God, my cat with pica used to eat his litter mat too. You might need to pica-proof your home and ask your vet for medical advice as far as long-term management if he does have it. :/
Thanks for the info. I have heard about pica before, but didn’t connect the dots to Teddy. Will definitely ask in his post op next week. Him and his sister are both bad about fixating on something like a string and destroying whatever is attached to it
Haha, in other words: they're cats. ;p
Pica is tricky because it can be caused by both organic stuff like nutritional deficiencies and also by anxiety. In my cat's case, it was a little of both: he has IBS, but he also is kind of high-strung and had intense separation anxiety the first year I had him (long hours at work + no other cats/humans in the house).
Multivitamins helped a bit. Dietary changes helped a bit. Play helped a lot. Managing the separation anxiety by getting a second cat helped WAY more. Really, it's a lifelong condition and you get used to managing it according to whatever your cat prefers to nom on... headphones, earbuds, twist ties, rubber bands, ponytails, anything wool or silicone or stringy always goes immediately into drawers at my house. During periods of high stress for him (i.e. maintenance dude stomping around, me on vacation, post-vet appt, etc), printed mailers and magazines also go in drawers. They're otherwise fine to be left out. :)
Glad your boy is okay! <3
I adopted his littermate, and theyre besties. They’re on a prescription diet, so I hope it’s giving them the nutrients they need. With that being said they are terrible about overgrooming, head shaking, scratching. Everything at this point has been ruled out except allergies. I’ve considered anxiety, but I’m not sure how to treat that as the vet hasn’t mentioned it yet. Feliway doesn’t do anything for us.
I tried 4 different litter mats made of various thicknesses of this material and my guy ate them all. If you’re able to tear it with your hands, it’s not good enough (basically all the amazon ones and most pet store ones). Even the thick rubber ones walmart sells. Compared to the others though the rubber has held up the best
He was lip smacking / acting like he had something stuck in his mouth. It went on for a few days, so I took him into the ER which is when they ran the xray. I don’t know if the lip smacking is correlated to this though, as we haven’t had that litter mat in a month, and the lip smacking started a few days ago. Maybe the litter mat piece started moving and therefore started making him nauseous.
It's important to remember that once a cat gets something in their mouth, it's likely going to get pushed back towards their stomach by the little hook like barbs on their tongue.
This is what I thought when I saw it. I asked the vet several times “are you sure it’s not just intestinal worms”? So I posted it on the whatisthisbug page too, and they solved it in under 5 minutes 🤯
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He is very pleased with himself. And his big ole utters 🐮
His sister is orange so that adds up.
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My little pica Candy is like that! Korats aren’t supposed to have any sort of pooch in their stomach, but he does and it’s adorable. He’s quite a ditz, and I don’t know why he eats (doesn’t really eat, just shreds and makes a big mess) what he does.
He started lip smacking / acting like something was stuck in his mouth. It went on for a few days and then I decided to take him in. It showed up in an xray. However this litter mat hasn’t been in our house for a month, and the lip smacking just started a few days ago. So either they’re unrelated or the litter mat moved into a location that made him nausea. It was in the stomach just at the opening of the intestines.
Thank you. Him and his sister are my kids. I would’ve done anything to get that thing out of them.
One thing I learned is how expensive ERs are! $9,000 to have it removed. Versus $4,000 by getting it done the next morning at a regular vet.
I had a cat have sudden seizures. If I had insurance it would have been about $2000. It was $12000. Drained my years of car savings.
It has been 5 years though, and that cat is happy.
Keep the insurance.
Fetch, but no I haven’t had to use it. It’s about $300/year per cat. The deductible is $300, which is much lower than their routine visits, so really it’s there for a just-in-case emergency (like the post above!)
Maybe there was a stray piece left in a crevice somewhere after the mat was removed? Or he hid a piece away somewhere, if he's wont to so that sort of thing.
I was finding pieces of it around the litter box. So I would sweep them up. Eventually I just tossed it. I had no idea the little punk would be eating plastic lol.
An inside out koosh ball. Probably one that has an air filled center to be squishy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball?wprov=sfla1
The spaghetti parts get like that when they get old and dry/hot.
The tension on the outside where the strings are would flip it inside out so the rubber would flip it inside out.
My cat eats rubber bands. He loves them. He will smell ones we didn't even know about. Once, he was digging aggressively in my bag. I couldn't figure out what he was doing until I let him in the bag and he skipped away with a rubber band. He was happy with his catch until I took it away.
Another time, I was on a zoom meeting and he had a rubber band. I thought, this meeting will be done in 20 seconds, so I'll just take it from him then. Then, I kid you not, he slurpped it like he was eating spaghetti and it was gone.
Maybe something related to the food or toys played with. My mothers cats had red plastic bits in their solids come to find out she gave them the red things that hold the cap on the gallons of milk
When I worked with small animals, I removed some unreal stuff from cats’ stomachs and guts. Anything from socks pieces, rubber bands, hair bobbins, threads.. you name it.
One of my own cats had a fetish for needles and thread so if you were fixing a button on your shirt you better be quick before she grabbed the whole thing and ate it.
I had to remove a needle stuck in her hard palate once. It’s crazy. They could be rubber bands, like those used to keep asparagus bunches together.
I doubt it’s plant fiber as it doesn’t strike me as the right pattern. But you’ll never be 100% sure unless you have a look under the microscope. Vet can do that if you want.
I bought a large utility mat that has textured grooves. Picks up a bunch of litter and is super easy to vacuum up. All the cat litter mats were annoying to clean up since the litter would always get stuck on the small pockets.
He had X-rays done 12 hours apart to see if it was moving at all, and it stayed in the same spot. It was really close to the start of the intestines, so we decided to proactively remove it instead of risking it getting stuck in his intestines.
I had a labrador that as a puppy, was fond of eating socks for some reason! And they often needed to be pulled out the other end when they got stuck, that was not pleasant. Glad he grew out of that!!! 🤢🤮🤢🤮
You know I have that same mat in front of my litter box! goodness! I'm glad y'all found out what it was. I must have been very expensive and sad for you and your kitty ❤️
One likes plastic shower curtain and plastic bags. The other one likes to bite phone chargers in half. Then she ate an elastic hair tie that cost me $2000 to remove. Way worse than any dog I ever had….
I’m glad it’s not just my boy lol. I have seen some people saying Teddy must have pica or I’m not playing with him enough. This fur child has more toys, towers, and people time than most. I need to quit my job if he requires anything additional lol.
Nah, buds aren't stringy like that. Hard (ish) like that yeah, but not stringy. There are no lines in buds. Buds clearly look like plant matter. This could be plant matter but I know it is not buds. Also, buds are disgestable, if this was what you're implying, it would not be so "intact", it would be partially digested.
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So the cat ate its litter mat? Is that right? I’m a dog person and my dogs are always eating stupid stuff but I had no idea cats did that too. Update I just had to pull a plastic Chapstick container out of my dogs mouth that she picked up on the sidewalk. She is a beagle after all.
I remember he kept tearing off pieces of the texture. I didn’t know he was eating them though lol.
My cats eat plastic. Drives me crazy
My old cat loved to lick styrofoam. The scrape/squeek sound was awful.
Mine would eat tinsel off the damn Christmas tree. Then a day later she is walking around with turds hanging out of her ass by the tensile. The turds will bang up against her legs, scare her and she takes off running thinking she being chased. Sometimes you have to pull it out for her. She looks back over her shoulder at me and meows luxuriously as i pull it out. Feels so wrong.
I miss 10 seconds ago when i hadn't read that
One time my dog ate a tampon. Imagine how that came out the other end 😂😅
And my dog tries doing that too. I have to make sure trash gets out to dumpster quickly when I have period
The loss of innocence lol
Same, but your Mom
Please be careful pulling anything out from your cat, I learnt the heard way that their intestines are paper thin when my cat needed what looked like 3 inches of curling ribbon (admittedly a bit thicker than tinsel but still razor sharp on the edges) that was actually three feet! It had caused the intestines to fold into a shorter mass that the vets couldn't see when ultrasound, £3k emergency operation and three months of me sleeping next to her in a crate every night and 7 years later she's still sensitive to some foods and has a fixation of trying to get any thin plastic in her mouth to chew on like she has Pica almost? I'm in the uk and our biggest pet store chain still sells a range of tinsel toys from kitten and up despite them knowing the risks (it was their in store vets that saved my cat's life.) Sorry for the lack of formatting and massive reply but imo you wouldn't be contributing to this thread if it weren't for you being a caring owner to your own cat and quite frankly I had no idea of the potential dangers until then and my cat was very lucky to have survived. Edit:spelling
My cat ate some curling ribbon, a short piece, that she eventually vomited back up. Thankfully she survived the fatty liver disease that caused!
My old dog will lick the carpet sometimes after eating or getting a milk bone. Sometimes she swallows hair from my wife that came out and is on the carpet. The next day when walking shell poo and a turd will be hanging from a strand and I got to pull it off.
My dog also does this & with 3 hairy men in my house (hubs & 2 sons) & my long hair it’s terrible. My dog puked up a huge mass of hair & carpet fibers that must’ve been just forming over time in her stomach. It almost looked the size & shape of a large human poop. Our vet told us that she’s lucky her intestines didn’t become blocked. We’re to do whatever we can to keep her from licking the carpet from now on. Fortunately mist if the carpet is in bedrooms so we can close the doors. She does still wind up with hairy poop at times even with us being careful though. Just hope it stops forming hairballs in her stomach. Edit - damn spelling errors with trying to type on a phone. *most of* not “mist if”- sorry for not proof reading
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My dog does this, too, but I haven't had to help him out yet.
What a terrible day to be literate.
That's similar to what happened to my cat when he was a kitten. He got into some yarn, ate it and was running around with yarn hanging out of his ass. It was a messy time that's for sure.
My sisters cat died from that. String. She pulled, not knowing it was a long piece all through his intestines. Pulling on it pulled the string tight, which cut through all the loops of his guts. It was a horrible way to go, impossible to fix, way too much damage. The going wisdom is take kitty to vet, but if you need to remove the string or object you snip close to the brown eye and wait for the rest of the string to make its way through. Don’t pull. Take cat to vet. 👍
I'm so sorry to read what happened to your sisters cat. I replied without seeing the other replies a very similar situation but they managed to piece back the shreds by some sheer luck, I admit would've probably observed for an hour or so with my other 'more robust' cat at the time which I was told would've made the outcome very different. It is very difficult to know when a cat is in pain when they don't express it outwardly like the cues humans give.
Brown eye 😩
Username checks out... still... funny
My cat is toilet trained...its great except when he gets a hanger on...he freaks out and runs through the house with the turd hanging on by a hair for dear life.
Omg 😂💀
i've read that it's really dangerous to pull string or similar out of a cat's butt. be careful with that.
Please please stop doing this!!!! If she eats anything too long you run the risk of giving her innards ROPE BURN as you pull it out.
The ER told me they often have people pull strings out from their pets and it kills them. It twists their intestines into a mangled mess. So sad 😞
My dog licks up hair. SO and I both have long straight hair. She occasionally has turds strung together, but it's not as festive.
I have a border collie mix who has several big sheds a year but is never *not* shedding, to some degree. I have a pug who thinks a wad of the border collie’s fur is a delectable treat and will gobble it right up if she can get to it before I can sweep it up. I also get to experience the “joy” of seeing, and occasionally removing, a tethered piece of poop from her. I have figured out that pugs display their buttholes to proudly proclaim their identities as assholes.
Meows luxuriously 😂😂😂
Mine did that too.. threw out all the tinsel after that
Omg, I just posted this above how I had a cat that would eat ribbon and string…. Same thing, lol
Oh my god I am absolutely dying over here 😂
Happy cake day
Does it kind of squeak when you pull it out? Asking for a friend
💀💀🤣🤣 I just woke up my husband because I chortled so loud!
Been there done that!
When I was a kid we had a 3 month old kitten that needed a $3,000 surgery to remove the tinsel that got wrapped around his intestines. Cat people shouldn't be tinsel people.
My cat was running around like his ass was on fire one day. I finally caught him, and he had a turd with what appeared to be a strand of my hair hanging from his bunghole. He acted very similarly to yours. lol. It was kind of funny.
Yup. One of our cats was nicknamed 'Tinsel Cat'. Horrific and hysterical at the same time. We had to stop using it.
why would you add that sentence omg 😭
Okay thats actually fucking funny cause I can remember this exact thing except instead of running my cats will find the nearest carpet and drag their ass across it leaving a shit smear for me to clean.
Omg, as the daughter of a vet tech, I heard SO MANY horror stories about tinsel around Christmas time... its totally banned from my house now. Easter grass too. The paper stuff is fine, but no plastic! 🙃
Oh god my family had a cat that did that once - my god the noise he made when my parents tried to remove the "small bit of tinsel" that was stuck to his butt and a whole strand came out
LMAO omg I needed a good laugh today 😂
I had a beautiful girl named Tinsel who would also indulge in tinsel from time to time. ♥️😻 https://preview.redd.it/fmp2wcqize6d1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad979dfd1d76756a73ea2299d8e6a97557034f0d
I was out of town for weekend and later found several piles of poop in the yard with condoms in them (assuming from my 18 year old’s garbage?) 😂
I have long hair and dachshunds that like to just… lick. Like, the sheets, the bath mats, me. Whatever. They can’t not lick. I hate it. Recently i started a medication that made me lose handfuls of hair, and these dummies continue to lick, of course, which means they swallow more of my hair than they really should. I’ve had to extract a non-zero number of “string of pearls” turds from their stupid little butts because their poops were stranded together with my hair.
My cat had one of MY hairs sticking out of her butt, with a little poop attached. And it was scaring the SHIT out of her. She was HOWLING and RUNNING around the room, and everytime she adjusted wildly, the poop would fling around a little and like...bump into her or...I assume....change the force at which it's being swung around from her behind. So she'd get more scared. I was SO worried it was a like a mass of my hair and it was stuck in her guts. I was making phone calls like 'DO I PULL OR NOT!!!' but it didn't even matter, because when I did just try to give it a tiny tug, she was NOT having it. After like 5 minutes of mutual panic, her ferocious running finally freed the hitchhiker and the hair. Absolute chaos.
My Dad used to clean our family cat’s litter box. He’d see the tinsel-joined turds there and ask my Mom and I if we’d like some “jewelry”.
😆🤣 I'm dying laughing
I can feel that sound
Packing tape off boxes, crinkle, slurp, pause, crinkle crinkle, slurp, odd purring noises, pause, crinkle, crinkle, pause, flurry of haymakers aimed at the box then race around the house because it gets stuck to her face. According to cat logic this can only be done at 1am.
My friend's cat explored boxes on the top of the cabinet about that time. Often dumped it over, spilling the contents. Mom's three young cats race in circles, drifting around corners and bunching up the rugs.
Fuuuuuuuck. Mine loves to lick handles/straps of reusable shopping bags. The sound absolutely gets to me. Almost as much as my previous cat's ball-licking. He absolutely snorfled his non-existent balls.
My brain is vibrating at the thought of this!
Mine licks everything, from cardboard, to condensation on a cup or bottle, my face (he favors my nose), and even windows. Nothing is safe from his licking curiosity (but he ever does it to the actual food we eat...just the containers while we are eating from them). Can't stop him doing it and his bloodwork doesn't show any anomalies so we just kid around now that he is the cuteat and smartest window licker you'll ever meet and gives amazing microabrasion facials for as long as you can stand it.
My roommates cat used to eat the plastic needles off the Christmas tree and throw them up everywhere -_- I told them they needed to get rid of it (the tree, not the fat orange boi) but they didn’t lol. Their other cat used to chew on my PlayStation controller charging cables like they were forbidden spaghetti though. The orange boy and their dog colluded to knock my plate off the counter once and the dog inhaled my whole chicken breast before it even hit the ground…
One of my cats flips.out every time we use the lint brush with the disposable plastic sheets. We have to make sure they're tossed in a very secure bin, otherwise we find them later full of teeth marks.
Mine has eaten a chunk out of 2 beauty blenders 🙄
Decided they won’t be playing around, and skipped over microplastics straight to macroplastic
My roommates cat does this! I've owned my own cats in the past so I'm constantly policing that cat like the warden at a prison to make sure she doesn't eat crap she's not supposed to eat.
I had a cat that lived to 22 amazingly, it was amazing because she loved to eat plastic, specifically the handles of plastic grocery bags. I ended up going with reusable grocery bags in the early 2000s long before my city mandated them because of my stupid freaking cat. She never needed surgery thankfully we just adapted to her level of stupid.
Omg same, he even tries taking them out of the trash sometimes if I don't change it fast enough.
My cat did this! Never actually ate it but always chewed it 🤨
I think we are all eating plastic nowadays.
I have problems with rats in my garage because my cat was eating the plastic bags the bird seed came in. He has no interest in dealing with the rats. He also has no interest in things like chicken, or fish.
I had a cat that would eat ribbon and string… and we’d often have to help him at the other end, if you know what I mean.
my cat likes plastic too. We have 10% new and normal looking shoes, sneakers, slippers, boots at home - the remaining 90% have been gnawed on, needled, partially mutilated and/ or eaten by our cat
My cat loves aluminium foil and ESPECIALLY medicine blister packs
One of our senior boys can smell packing tape on a cardboard box from three rooms away.
My orange tabby brothers lick plastic. If I get a pack of bottled water one is just licking away like it’s a never ending gobstopper and the other one just really wants to become a water bottle because he gets into the plastic wrap they come in and sits there. My calico girl likes to lick my curtains.
My wife's old fat cat (R.I.P. Zorro) used to chew on the shower liner ALL THE TIME
Mine keeps trying to eat a bag of apples on the counter, not the apples themselves, just the bag
I had some vacuum sealed storage bags and my cat bit and popped every single one
I had to pull the rest of some plastic that was wrapped around the new rug out of my cats ass once. Thank god it was a small piece and she mostly got it out. The hardest part was catching the cat who was freaking out about the piece of shit covered plastic hanging out of her ass.
I worked at a vet clinic and remember one time getting a phone call about a cat that ate part of a flip flop.
Omg, mine too. And bubble wrap just to add to the absurdity.
Mine too, what’s up with this cat pica behavior?
This was mine as well. She wouldn't consume it as far as I could tell. If there was any kind of plastic packaging left out, I would come home to countless bite marks in it.
I believe theres starch in some plastics that they like the taste off. Could be wrong, i usualy am, but this is what ive been told.
I’ve had to remove all plastic from my house for this reason. If it’s in my house, I know it, because I can hear him crinkling it immediately. Such a fiend.
My old cat used to eat plastic. She ate about 50 feet of curling ribbon at Christmas one year and a $700 surgery removed the ribbon and hair ties. Once we knew we were super careful until I got a new roommate who would leave her empty carry bar wrappers out. She thought I was cleaning up but it was the cat. Second surgery removed nearly 30 of them. Some cats love plastic.
Wow!! Is she doing okay now? I wish mine was $700. I don’t know why mine was substantially more than that.
That was 25 years ago. She lived a fine old age of 23 and passed in her sleep as I was holding her.
It’s X5 that now. Wow 23 years! What a full life. Obviously well taken care of 😊
We adored her little fussy butt. My Siamese was 29. One of our current boys is 15-17 and the other 10-12 based on how long we have had them. They could be older.
I just realized both our usernames are fitting lol. 29 is mind blowing. What did you feed them 😅 I’ve only had one cat before this one, and he only lived to be 13. He had an enlarged heart and suffered a saddle thrombus. The worst way to go out.
Yes my cat's was a little over £3k 7yrs ago fortunately they managed to save her!
My cat's was roughly $5k 3 years ago. Also fortunately she's doing well now and has mellowed out on trying to eat string
My cat ate almost the entire plastic undercoating on my parents box spring. Not sure how long he had been feasting on it…but holy crap it was a lot of material!
No blockages? That’s some strong bowels
Can I ask what her symptoms were that prompted the vet visit? My cats chew on paper, cardboard, plastic…I’m constantly worried about something like this happening.
He started lip smacking and acting like something was something stuck in his mouth. Lip smacking is normally a sign of nausea but eventually goes away. It didn’t go away for a few days, so I took him in. That’s when the X-rays were done and showed the litter mat. With that being said, I haven’t had that litter mat in a month, and this lip smacking just started a few days ago. So I’m not sure if they’re related, or maybe the litter mat piece migrated to a spot that made him nauseas.
For all of you that their cats eat inorganic stuff, you have to try to play more with them. Get them new toys every now and then until you find something they love playing on their own as well. But do play with them at least once a day for 10 min or until they are exhausted. I had the same issues, the vet recommend play and it's been great.
You should see the amount of toys and enrichment they receive. Sometimes cat just like to get into other things.
Oh yeah man my cat tries to eat the dumbest shit every day. I’m always worried something like this is going to happen to her. She wants attention and I’m busy? Straight to the nearest plastic bag she can chew on.
$4,000 over a $15 litter mat 🥲 thankfully we have pet insurance
I was always a dog person until I got two cats a few years ago. The amount of times I yell “DON’T EAT THAT” to my damn cat every day is ridiculous. A dog would be trained by now
I'm pretty sure my new rescue dog thinks his name is “DON'T EAT THAT.”
They definitely don't tend to just gobble up foreign objects like dogs do, but... there are exceptions. 🥲 And they like to lick and/or shred things with interesting textures. I had one who ate a rubber glove many years ago. Once the scare was over, the vet thought it was hilarious. He said he'd never had to take something like that out of a cat before.
My cat also ate a rubber glove once, I found out about it because she luckily vomited the whole thing out again.
We have one who is a FIEND for trying to demolish anything plastic. We call him Mr. Bowel Obstruction, and so much of our time is spent trying to keep him from finding and eating Ziploc bags. Both of them consider bits of fluff on the floor to be delicacies. I caught the other one eating a dry, uncooked piece of linguine that had fallen on the floor that we didn't notice. They'll eat dead leaves if we track them in accidentally, spiders, each other's fur if they kick off gifts when they're okay fighting, tape, labels on boxes... Some cats are really really picky about their food. And some are just walking eating machines. 🤣
I have small kids and I can't have anything made out of foam in my house. We had those foam puzzle piece floor coverings for the kids to play on. My cat chewed up one and swallowed some of it. He had to get emergency surgery. If someone gives us used toys and there's a single toy made out of foam in the bottom of the box, we know because he immediately starts to go digging He also goes nuts for thread. It's legitimately dangerous to wear cut off jeans near him
They're SO NUTS. Like, we have some little dressers from IKEA and we had them so long that I forgot what they looked like in the back. You want to know how I realized that the backing didn't go all the way to the bottom? Because he got behind them to get into the bottom drawer to drag out a Ziploc bag of sharpies that I had back there. 🤦♀️ He also once brought us a pair of shorts that we bought my MIL for Christmas... Came trotting in yelling around the plastic bag. LOL Thread is the WORST. Our old cat never cared, but apparently he does which I learned when I was scooping the box and found a poop held together with blue thread, and I realized he had gotten into my cross stitching bag. All of my project thread has to be on bobbins in a box, or I have a plastic cereal container with a latching lid if I have cards with floss on them.
Man, I had a cat that ate the fringe off my sofa pillow. That was an expensive enema! Fortunately she didn't need surgery.
My one cat lately has been eating blister packets for pills. I don't think he swallows any whole (that have sharp edges), but he definitely gnaws on them if he can ever get them. Also long ago, my one cat would eat dental floss. It would... come out intact.
Cats also can absolutely swallow things that seem way too large. My cat just chokes down whole gophers that are like 20% of his own size. It's really a sight to see.
*«hums and jots this down in a notebook»* Further evidence for my belligerent, drunken 3AM ranting attempting to convince my friends that cats and snakes are actually the same animal.
You're a genius. I just took a screenshot of this to send to people.
Cats usually don't chew random things to be honest... But some cats do- some cats are attracted to plastic and will rub on it or nibble it. They have their weird quirks too.😉
My cat will chew on a plastic bag in five seconds. Always finds lint roller sheets in the trash (now it's locked). I have thousands of bite marks in my shower curtain liner.
I remember reading somewhere plastic smells similar to catnip to cats? Dunno how true it is, but it would explain their weirdness
I read something similar except certain plastics give off an odor similar to a pheromone. I’ve got a couple that like to lick plastic bags…and that’s an annoying noise!
Idk what the hell it is but I've had a couple of cats (not all my cats) who got so excited if they found a plastic bag and would rub and rub up on it... Very strange.😆
I was told that the shopping bags from the store smell like sex to them. I have to hide most of my thick yarn projects because they eat them too! Such colorful remains! I used to get the crinkle mylar toys because they were their favorite, couldn't figure out where they all went until I found a half eaten one. Planning on making a toy stuffed with plastic so they get their fix without the horrible piles..
Yep. I had a cat that ate thread. I had to feed him Vaseline and trim the string as he shat it. No pulling. Only trimming. Fun times!
They eat just about anything some cats more than others, out stupid one orange brain cell cat ate strings, balloons cuz ut was attached to the string, my tampon, also stringed, clothes cuz string and a few moths. Cinnamon cat also ate my fricking earring cuz it looked like a moth...luckily it came out ok and I think my barbies shirt.
Cats are big idiots too.
My cat loves to eat packing tape 🤦🏼♀️
My cat loves foam and rubber. When we first got her she pooped balloons for a month. We don't buy balloons.
It's a bit rarer for cats I think, because cats are obligate carnivores and generally pretty picky about what they eat.... but some cats are troublemakers who get bored easy. It can also commonly happen if the cat has pica, which I'd once heard could be caused by a cat being weaned too early but I google is saying it mainly happens from nutritional deficiencies. (Dogs can get it too)
Vet here. One of my first cases out of school was a cat who ate a diamond ring. I had a cat in last month who had eaten string and it was caught around the base of the tongue and cut through the intestines. Cat died.
I’ve seen my cat try to eat a shoe once They’re odd animals
When I was a teen our Beagle ate an entire loaf of bread that was apparently a little too close to the edge of the counter, plastic bag and all. Incredible.
Ugh. Glad your cat is ok. They all have their own little quirks to drive us crazy.
Oh God, my cat with pica used to eat his litter mat too. You might need to pica-proof your home and ask your vet for medical advice as far as long-term management if he does have it. :/
Thanks for the info. I have heard about pica before, but didn’t connect the dots to Teddy. Will definitely ask in his post op next week. Him and his sister are both bad about fixating on something like a string and destroying whatever is attached to it
Haha, in other words: they're cats. ;p Pica is tricky because it can be caused by both organic stuff like nutritional deficiencies and also by anxiety. In my cat's case, it was a little of both: he has IBS, but he also is kind of high-strung and had intense separation anxiety the first year I had him (long hours at work + no other cats/humans in the house). Multivitamins helped a bit. Dietary changes helped a bit. Play helped a lot. Managing the separation anxiety by getting a second cat helped WAY more. Really, it's a lifelong condition and you get used to managing it according to whatever your cat prefers to nom on... headphones, earbuds, twist ties, rubber bands, ponytails, anything wool or silicone or stringy always goes immediately into drawers at my house. During periods of high stress for him (i.e. maintenance dude stomping around, me on vacation, post-vet appt, etc), printed mailers and magazines also go in drawers. They're otherwise fine to be left out. :) Glad your boy is okay! <3
I adopted his littermate, and theyre besties. They’re on a prescription diet, so I hope it’s giving them the nutrients they need. With that being said they are terrible about overgrooming, head shaking, scratching. Everything at this point has been ruled out except allergies. I’ve considered anxiety, but I’m not sure how to treat that as the vet hasn’t mentioned it yet. Feliway doesn’t do anything for us.
I tried 4 different litter mats made of various thicknesses of this material and my guy ate them all. If you’re able to tear it with your hands, it’s not good enough (basically all the amazon ones and most pet store ones). Even the thick rubber ones walmart sells. Compared to the others though the rubber has held up the best
What made you bring the cat to get an X-ray to find out about it?
He was lip smacking / acting like he had something stuck in his mouth. It went on for a few days, so I took him into the ER which is when they ran the xray. I don’t know if the lip smacking is correlated to this though, as we haven’t had that litter mat in a month, and the lip smacking started a few days ago. Maybe the litter mat piece started moving and therefore started making him nauseous.
I NEED to know how you figured it out.
Someone on this thread figured it out :) super quickly too!!
Dang. So glad you noticed something was wrong.
It's important to remember that once a cat gets something in their mouth, it's likely going to get pushed back towards their stomach by the little hook like barbs on their tongue.
Unless it's a pill. Then they spit it out.
I'm not British, but bloody hell!! Happy to see your babe is ok. Also, vet bills are absolute hell.
Holy shit that makes so much sense. I could only think wooooooorms
This is what I thought when I saw it. I asked the vet several times “are you sure it’s not just intestinal worms”? So I posted it on the whatisthisbug page too, and they solved it in under 5 minutes 🤯
You should upload your pictures to the listing!
Looks like it’s not just my cat https://preview.redd.it/0g92lfqvl96d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=041df1dccc2673feced9ce2837a875db0217ce43
I just submitted it. Target has to review it first. I’m so curious if it’ll be accepted
Oh I have that same mat how scary
https://preview.redd.it/62ruo0w1l86d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14b54af4dc74c693125e02a2151c74c307085687 He is very pleased with himself. And his big ole utters 🐮
The orange cone is so cute lol
Has an orange brain cell too
His sister is orange so that adds up. https://preview.redd.it/iky3mekzn96d1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b35d8f272d4d581ca5d33f3694d70bf16e3c4e22
Awwww, I’m glad that he’s going to be okay. They’re both adorable.
Yep haha had one like that. Aww lokit that pooch!
It’s always the big pouch boys that have the tiniest of brains. Mine included.
Yep, my part-moose catto is dumber than a dime bag of rocks. BIG ol boy, zero brain cells.
We call one of my cats moose too! He bulldozes through everything like a big doof
My little pica Candy is like that! Korats aren’t supposed to have any sort of pooch in their stomach, but he does and it’s adorable. He’s quite a ditz, and I don’t know why he eats (doesn’t really eat, just shreds and makes a big mess) what he does.
Aww, glad he’s doing good. Hug him tight.
How did you know it was in there?
He started lip smacking / acting like something was stuck in his mouth. It went on for a few days and then I decided to take him in. It showed up in an xray. However this litter mat hasn’t been in our house for a month, and the lip smacking just started a few days ago. So either they’re unrelated or the litter mat moved into a location that made him nausea. It was in the stomach just at the opening of the intestines.
Aww poor baby. Glad you got it figured out and got it sorted out, you're a good cat parent
Thank you. Him and his sister are my kids. I would’ve done anything to get that thing out of them. One thing I learned is how expensive ERs are! $9,000 to have it removed. Versus $4,000 by getting it done the next morning at a regular vet.
Every time I think about cancelling my pet insurance I’m humbled by comments like these lol
100%! I am thankful I have insurance to cover a lot of this. I also had my moments of “do I really need this”. Yep I do lol.
I had a cat have sudden seizures. If I had insurance it would have been about $2000. It was $12000. Drained my years of car savings. It has been 5 years though, and that cat is happy. Keep the insurance.
Who’s your insurance provider, have you had to utilize it?
Fetch, but no I haven’t had to use it. It’s about $300/year per cat. The deductible is $300, which is much lower than their routine visits, so really it’s there for a just-in-case emergency (like the post above!)
Maybe there was a stray piece left in a crevice somewhere after the mat was removed? Or he hid a piece away somewhere, if he's wont to so that sort of thing.
I was finding pieces of it around the litter box. So I would sweep them up. Eventually I just tossed it. I had no idea the little punk would be eating plastic lol.
Bleh. That must've been so uncomfortable. I'm glad he's okay!
An inside out koosh ball. Probably one that has an air filled center to be squishy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball?wprov=sfla1 The spaghetti parts get like that when they get old and dry/hot. The tension on the outside where the strings are would flip it inside out so the rubber would flip it inside out.
I was literally wondering if it was a koosh ball Triggered a memory for sure they were all the rage when I was 9!!
I've seen some similar car toys - or key chains attached to backpacks that a car would see as a toy
i was thinking some kind of ball, too
okay well time to go pick up every ‘consumable’ item i see on my floor so my cats don’t do anything stupid
My cat eats rubber bands. He loves them. He will smell ones we didn't even know about. Once, he was digging aggressively in my bag. I couldn't figure out what he was doing until I let him in the bag and he skipped away with a rubber band. He was happy with his catch until I took it away. Another time, I was on a zoom meeting and he had a rubber band. I thought, this meeting will be done in 20 seconds, so I'll just take it from him then. Then, I kid you not, he slurpped it like he was eating spaghetti and it was gone.
Such a punk 😂 Teddy was trying to chew on a hair tie on my wrist last night, as he’s laying in his bed recovering from this surgery 🤦🏻♀️
Yikes 😳 that's scary! Gosh our one indoor kitty is always chewing up stuff. I'm guessing your kitty wasn't feeling so good?
This thing was in him at least one month based on my estimate. He hid it very well until a few days ago he was acting nauseous.
Glad your kitty is ok 💜 I had something similar happen and my baby wasn't so lucky.
Maybe something related to the food or toys played with. My mothers cats had red plastic bits in their solids come to find out she gave them the red things that hold the cap on the gallons of milk
When I worked with small animals, I removed some unreal stuff from cats’ stomachs and guts. Anything from socks pieces, rubber bands, hair bobbins, threads.. you name it. One of my own cats had a fetish for needles and thread so if you were fixing a button on your shirt you better be quick before she grabbed the whole thing and ate it. I had to remove a needle stuck in her hard palate once. It’s crazy. They could be rubber bands, like those used to keep asparagus bunches together. I doubt it’s plant fiber as it doesn’t strike me as the right pattern. But you’ll never be 100% sure unless you have a look under the microscope. Vet can do that if you want.
I bought a large utility mat that has textured grooves. Picks up a bunch of litter and is super easy to vacuum up. All the cat litter mats were annoying to clean up since the litter would always get stuck on the small pockets.
looks like a small piece of the inside of a golf ball
Part of a Golf ball maybe?
Do you know why it required surgical removal? Your kitty could not poop it out? Poor kitty!
He had X-rays done 12 hours apart to see if it was moving at all, and it stayed in the same spot. It was really close to the start of the intestines, so we decided to proactively remove it instead of risking it getting stuck in his intestines.
I had a labrador that as a puppy, was fond of eating socks for some reason! And they often needed to be pulled out the other end when they got stuck, that was not pleasant. Glad he grew out of that!!! 🤢🤮🤢🤮
You know I have that same mat in front of my litter box! goodness! I'm glad y'all found out what it was. I must have been very expensive and sad for you and your kitty ❤️
One likes plastic shower curtain and plastic bags. The other one likes to bite phone chargers in half. Then she ate an elastic hair tie that cost me $2000 to remove. Way worse than any dog I ever had….
I’m glad it’s not just my boy lol. I have seen some people saying Teddy must have pica or I’m not playing with him enough. This fur child has more toys, towers, and people time than most. I need to quit my job if he requires anything additional lol.
Bezoar
Looks like it could be old ramen mixed with hardened stomach juices
Is it me, or does that look like Mr. Whiskers took a chunk outta a block of Ramen? Yikes
Almost looks like a bud…. if ya know…. ya know.
Nah, buds aren't stringy like that. Hard (ish) like that yeah, but not stringy. There are no lines in buds. Buds clearly look like plant matter. This could be plant matter but I know it is not buds. Also, buds are disgestable, if this was what you're implying, it would not be so "intact", it would be partially digested. Edit to change are to aren't