4felinehouse, That reminds me of a cat I knew in a previous life called Smokey. She was rubbing at my ankles one day while I was making a salmon pate sandwich. The pate came in a sausage-like plastic tube with a metal staple at each end. Having cut-off the end, leaving some pate on it, I dropped the end of the tube on the floor for Smokey to lick the pate off. You guessed it, she swallowed the whole thing! So, after a trip to the vet, and a hefty bill, I had to force-feed the poor mite with liquid parrafin until the inevitable happened and the offending bit of plastic re-appeared!