this past Christmas, we left some wrapping paper and stuff around the apartment, and one of my cats ate a ribbon. it didn't seem to have any health consequences, although it was pretty gross to have to cut it out of his butt fur.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i have to make my own fun now xpost
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha, I've got an orange tabby too and he doesn't eat thread.
I heard the ribbon can be pretty bad too.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
My cat chewed apart a wire sponge the other day but didn't eat any of it (I hope).
I think I would enjoy a bbq candle.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
it doesn't matter b/c it's not actually bacon! it's a bacon candle! i do not want pork chop perfume or steak shampoo either!
I made bacon perfume too. When I get home, I'll dig up some pix of it.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Of all my bacon experiments, bacon candy went over the best.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
The bacon candle didn't actually smell like anything to me, lit or unlit. A girl I knew used some of the bacon perfume on herself, but I dunno how she smelled with it.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i19.tinypic.com/54mhvsi.jpg
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
My cat eats insects, ive often wondered if thats entirely healthy for her but she never gets sick. She might if she manages to eat and get stung by a wasp or something some day I guess.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Our cat Morrie used to kill and eat flies, then go madly eat dry cat food like he wanted to get the taste out of his mouth. Lately, he's just been killing them and leaving their corpses on the windowsills.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
btw, I hope Nemo's happily home and decides that string is not worth eating from now on.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i also hope no one on this thread is making anything out of bacon except bacon
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm going to print out this thread and feed it to my cat.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
And now she's having mittens!
Ithangyew.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Awh hope your kitty's OK. One of ours ate some thread once but luckily it passed straight through. It was sticking out of his arse and we managed to pull it out (very gently!) without it getting tangled inside his intestines. Lucky escape. He still managed to cost us £1500 in vet bills after he fell off the roof though.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
lol mark g
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Mrs. Redd called me yesterday evening at work to tell me she was worried that he wasn't eating anything, so I was pretty bummed on my subway ride back. When I got home he was sleeping in the back of the closet, but he eventually woke up and I pet him on the head while he ate a little food. He woke up again later and ate some more and seemed in good spirits, was purring a lot. Still needs to recuperate though, this morning he tried (and failed) to jump up on a chair. He's not supposed to be jumping. We have him closed up in the back of the apartment where there is plenty of room for him but he is away from my daughters and the other cat and doesn't have much opportunity for over-excitement,
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Good luck man.
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Good kitty vibes going out.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Colonel, I just read that cats are MORE likely to survive a fall from over 100 feet than one from, say, 40 feet! Because their terminal velocity is much lower than a humans they can reach it in less vertical travel, and once they do, they spread their legs out like a sail and take the impact across their whole little bodies. Also their bones are made of titanium elastic. Under terminal velocity they're still getting themselves righted and won't land as calculatedly.
Best of lucks, Ken.
― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah Laurel we were reading about that at the time it happened - he fell 3 floors which I guess is probably about 30ft, so it could have been a lot worse than it was. Apparently they often break their jaws if they don't land properly which is not only extremely expensive to fix but the impact on the head can cause brain damage as well. Our kitty just dislocated his leg, he's fine now apart from slight limp.
Good luck James!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
My friends' cat had surgery after which he wasn't supposed to jump or climb stairs, so when they'd catch him looking up at the windowsill or armchair they'd preemptively pick him up and put him on it. Apparently he got very accustomed to that treatment and now, fully healed, refuses to jump anywhere he doesn't have to, preferring to yell for assistance.
Glad to hear Nemo's eating again. When it's less tender, you can have your way with his warm little shaved belly.
― eater, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
James and Mrs. Redd and Nemo:
You're in my thoughts today.
― Michael White, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks, everybody. Actually, Paul, we've had to pick him up once or twice but still haven't figured out the best way to pick up a post-op cat with a sensitive stitched-up belly.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh god, I remember when my cat had to have an operation for megacolon, and she had stitches in her stomach and around her arse. I picked her up, obviously hurt her, and she hooked her claw into my lip like a fish hook.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Tonight he's looking really good, walking around with a lively step, ears and tail sticking up, purring a lot. Right now I hear him lapping up some water.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
that last post made me feel absurdly happy, i'm glad he's feeling better.
― estela, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
YAY, a triumph
now take a picture of his belly and write an amusingly spelled caption
I HAZ A ZIPPRGUTZ
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
that last post made me feel absurdly happy
I second that.
― Michael White, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, thirded here.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 1 June 2007 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Hurrah! Glad he's feeling better.
Can cats play with and eat bees without getting stung? Our 6 month old Rhubarb is a fantastic fly hunter, but right now she's toying with a bee, padding it and picking it up in her mouth. The bee doesn't seem that angry, strangely, but she's not lost an insect yet, and I can see this ending in disaster. Of course she could have killed and eaten 20 bees already, I've just not seen her do it.
― Vicky, Friday, 1 June 2007 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link
ok, she just got bored of the game and wolfed it down, and isn't crying with pain.
― Vicky, Friday, 1 June 2007 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link
My dogs and cats have always eaten bees and wasps and other unpleasantries, and it's never done them any harm.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 1 June 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, I hope everyone's OK. My cat is sleeping soundly next to one of my pillows; I'm about to brush my teeth and join her.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 1 June 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
all pets are rotters, mine is strutting around with a pig's ear in his mouth pretending he won it in a deadly battle even though we all know i brought it home shrinkwrapped from woolworths.
― estela, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Now my buddy has a hyperthyroid condition and may be going in for some radioactive iodine treatment.
― The Jody Valgrind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 August 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
i once saw a seagull at the beach with four inches of twine sticking out his butt
― the late great, Friday, 29 August 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
hope your cat is doing ok btw
RIP, buddy, you were a trooper to the very end.
― Y Kant Jamie Reid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
:(
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 November 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
The Iodine treatment worked out well for him.
I will try to tell you some good stories about him when I am able.
― Y Kant Jamie Reid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
*sigh*
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
Tell us a story. We'll like it and so will you.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Dealing with another cat now. But yeah I still owe you story I guess
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
A friend told me of her dog which would eat anything. At some point it ate a pair of stockings and it was having difficulty passing them. Dog wandered around outside trying to get it out but gave up and came back in the house. With a leg of stocking hanging out its ass, the foot of the stocking loaded with shit and dragging across the white carpet like a brown marker. Mom screamed and dad, the hero, stepped up and grabbed the shit squishy end of stocking. The dog howled and ran forward, leaving quite the mess.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
We didn't like the story after all, and neither did you.
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
Dog_Art
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
My current crop of three cats got a little traumatized last night and are not getting along now so we are having to keep them apart.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 June 2021 12:44 (three years ago) link
― The Jody Valgrind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, August 29, 2014 12:36 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
we are doing this soon :(
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, 14 June 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Don’t worry, it works great in my experience. Place we took him had a kitty cam so we could watch him during his stay.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 June 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
Can’t remember if I mentioned it upthread, but one time I met the woman whose lab came up with this treatment, I think. She and her husband and son are all super smart.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Carrasco
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 June 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link