String and Cats

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+[[!meta title="String and Cats Don't Mix"]]
+[[!tag cat solo vet]]
+
+We had to take Solo to the vet this morning :-(.
+
+Last night, at about 7pm, she ate a piece of string about 2’ long.  
+String is bad inside cats (and other pets!) because they can't
+digest it and it can make hoops and hooks that get caught on the
+insides and cause all kinds of pain and doom.
+
+Fortunately the vet said that Solo is OK so far; but we have to keep
+her seperated from the other cats, with her own litterbox, so we can
+check if the string has come out; and phone them up if there are any
+of various kinds of distress. And we have another appointment to get
+her prodded again tomorrow morning.
+
+If we'd thought to phone the emergency vet line then they might have
+been able to get her to vomit the string up; if we'd got her to them
+within about an hour; but we didn't do that sadly.
+
+All the cats are quite distressed by the separation.