Originally posted by jenluckenbach
Poor, silly Ritzy. You should know better. You could hurt yourself. I am glad that all seems fine. Pulling a string out (from either end) is not always the right thing to do. Bet that was scary>
Daddycat probably wouldn't have attempted to pull the string out, but it was "folded up" twice and both ends were sticking out... and over halfway hanging out of her mouth (about 4 inches) , so he was in kind of an emergency situation as she might have choked with it like that and couldn't seem to get it all the way out.

. We live 40 miles from the nearest emergency vet clinic, so time was of the essence here.

he put his hand around her chest gently and lifted her slightly so that gravity would get most of it... when he tugged lightly, it more or less slid out the rest of the way... if it had been a single strand, we would have been off to the vets. We watched her very closely for the rest of the evening for signs of emergency need.....she perked up almost IMMEDIATELY after the thing was out of her...

She was her old self yesterday, but we still were on the 48 hour poopy patrol....glad to report that as of this morning, all is "moving through" as it should!