Ritzy scared us to death! (gross out caution)

[ChrisH]

Vermontcat you got it!! LOL

[tuxluvr]

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!

[tuxluvr]

Originally posted by ChrisH
So glad Ritzy is ok and no real harm done.

But, oh boy, there was I thinking it was just the dogs who were the ones to worry about in eating weird stuff department! Shows how much I know about cats!
And what has been going through my mind lately.... "maybe...I`m not sure... hell, I DO want to have a cat!" think I`d better do some more thinking! lol

I don't think it is as typical with cats as dogs, but I do know that cats love to play with string and yarn, but have always been very careful about leaving anything like that within "paw's reach".....this was just so odd - I'm still not sure where this came from - I know she loves to chew the tails off the fake fur mousies, so we started removing them before letting her play with them.....this thing was about the same thickness as one of those mouse tails...so for a while she probably thought she was in "mouse tail heaven"...

[Cataholic]

Ritzie- you scared us!!!! No more mouth stuff, unless Mommy gives it to you, ok?

[Vio&Juni]

So glad Ritzy's ok

[wolflady]

OMG! What a scare! I'm so glad that everything seems to be OK with her now though. It's always tricky when it comes to swallowing long strands of string like that. Cats have a tendency of finding things, no matter how good we cat proof a house
We had a similar incident with Marius, and now that I think about it, we're lucky that everything turned out ok. Aaron and I were actually on vacation and we had a pet sitter coming every other day to feed/check-up on our babies. Anyway, when we came home, I saw the pink string toy lying in a puddle on the floor (the typical barf puddle). Marius had to have swallowed it and urped it up later. I don't know if he had gotten up somewhere to get it, or if the sitter left it out because we always put that toy away when we didn't play with it for that very reason of Marius eating it. Ugh! I'm just glad that he was able to get it back up and everything was ok.

For Ritzy, I think dadcat's actions were right, because she might otherwise have choked. I would have been in full panic mode for sure!
Give Ritz a cuddle for me and tell her not to get into any more hidden string!

[kimlovescats]

So glad Ritzy is "out of the woods"! A dear friend of mine just got through a similar scare with her baby. He swallowed that rubbery red string that comes around sliced bologna!!!! Talk about a scare! She had to give him lots of laxatives and wait it out. Thankfully, he is fine ... but no more purchasing the bologna with the red rings anymore for her!!!

[tuxluvr]

Ritz is all AOK. We went to the vets this morning for the "annual" visit.....she protested with all her might, but all is ok in the kitty innards!

[BigCharles]

Cindy had something like this happen after wraping Christmas packages. She lost track of a length of red ribbon. Lamoni had found it.

A day or so later Cindy was petting Lamoni and thought that there was something odd under his tail. It was the red ribbon. She took hold of the end of the ribbon and just HELD ON.

As Lamoni walked away the ribbon came out the rear end. He did all of the pulling. Cindy says that there was almost two feet of ribbon in there. Well, he IS a big cat.