From: Senji Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:22:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: String and Cats X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~jdamery/git?p=Circle.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f57aa4990c55307332eddca543ce91c49a72090 String and Cats --- diff --git a/posts/string_and_cats.mdwn b/posts/string_and_cats.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c8d014 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/string_and_cats.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!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.