Cat eats elastic???

[kb2yjx]

Or if she starts to vomit, that would indicate she is obstructed(most likely by the elastic band). Hope it does not come to that and she will be a good girl and poop it out!!!!

[ahart44]

well still no elastic in the poop....she ate a little....but I hope that by tomorrow moring there will be a nice present for me in the littlerbox.......seriously tho am I that cat crazy that I am excited to be scooping the box?

[Medusa]

Well, it could cause her some internal damage if she doesn't pass it. If, by some off chance, you do see it, uh, hanging out of her behind, shall we say, DO NOT pull on it or try to help her pass it. Let her do it on her own. Years ago, a small dog of mine ate a nylon footie and my vet chose to see if she would pass it and, thankfully, she did but he warned me not to help her in any way because it could damage her internally. I'll feel better when you tell us it's in the box.

[moosmom]

Mary,

Me too!

[Catty1]

Other folks here - would it hurt to add a tiny bit of cooking oil to her wet food? Would that help, or maybe cause complications?

I keep every tiny thing put away - habit, after years of cats...but it's easy to overlook one little thing.

I hope your baby passes it and is ok!

[krazyaboutkatz]

My cats will also eat things that they're not supposed to. My girl Pearl will also elastic string and one time I was scooping the box just after she had used it and there was something red in her poo. At first I thought that it was blood but it was a red elastic string that she has eaten from a cat toy that my mom had given to me. Thank god she passed it. I didn't even know that she had eaten it so I can't tell you how long it took her to pass it. I found the toy and threw it away. I hope that your cat will also be able to pass this. Now I'm very careful with what I give my furkids to play with. I even cut off the tails of the mice toys that I give them just to be on the safe side. Good luck.

[ahart44]

See we have already had this problem once in Nov. My Abby baby got a hold of a ribbon that was under the heater in our new apartment (we thought we cleaned well enought but I guess not) She had to have surgery b/c it blocked her intestines. Then while at the vet she caught dystemper ( she ddint get all of her kitten shots, we didn't know) So a month and $1000 laters she ended up being ok. WE cleaned to whole house while she was sick. WE get rid of anything with string or elastic, even cut the tails off of mice and such.
But, this rubber band thing was different. It had been on my wrist at work and when I cane home I put it under a box on my dresser and shut the door intending to throw it out later (no trash in there). WEll the cats bumped the door open ( not sure how) and Abby dug the rubber band out from under the box. Hopefully this turns out better

PS- Still not rubber in the litter box but she is playing and eating and not vomiting so I am still on litter patrol.