This is one of those common sense things that shouldn't have happened but I'm sending this as a wake up just in case anyone else misplaces their common sense. Wednesday morning I was playing with our 10 month old kitten, Zingo, with a piece of fabric ribbon. My husband and I left for work and really didn't think about the ribbon until I got home and found only about half of it on the floor with obvious signs of chewing. Zingo had eaten about 8 inches of it. DIdn't eat,drink, or use the litter box Wednesday night. He did throw up a few times which made the emergency vet appointment a very definite choice. They kept him last night and were probably going to be doing surgery unless the laxative worked and the ribbon appeared. Before we left the vet I suggested very strongly to the Zing monster that he work with the laxative....so just an FYI to keep anyone else from suffering the horrible guilt I have right now (and to save the cat the "discomfort") NO RIBBONS!