Dingleberries and my Cat. Help needed (TMI)

Ok the title says it all - kind of. My male siamese has been walking around as of late with a dingleberry* hanging down a little. Usually his arse is the cleanest thing around - not sure how it stays so clean…perhaps our female siamese likes to toss his salad. :smack: perhaps not.

Anyway a few months ago said cat had another dingleberry, that time I grabbed a kleenex and ripped it off. yes, ripped. It didn’t just come willingly. I had to yank. Most dingleberries just come right off, they get a little stuck to the fur anf thats that. However, these are notoriously stuck in/on his arse.

Any ideas why? Whats going on here? Could these dingles be something aside from unwanted fecal matter? A scab of some sort ? I hate to rip this last dingle off my male cat, I hope there’s nothing stuck in there…But on the same token I’d hate to get laughed out of the vets office for bringing my cat in with a simple dingleberry. Anyone else had this problem with their feline owners?

* A dingleberry is a dried piece of shit hanging sometimes on the outside of the arse, sometimes stuck in purgatory, halfway in and halfway out of a cats ass. Or any animal for that matter

Has he been eating grass?

If my dog ate some string or grass or whatever, sometimes it would hang down and it fell upon me to pull it out. It did not feel unlike starting a lawnmower.

Our Charles T. Cat had a case of stringbutt last week, but I did not, nor would I allow Mr. Lisa to pull it out. Suppose something important got pulled out? :slight_smile:

The preferred term in our household for the phenomena noted in the OP is Klingons. Since we’ve increased the amount of moisture in the kitty diet, this hasn’t been a problem.

On occasions when our male cat has started having this problem, we’ve trimmed his butt hair a bit. It definitely helps.

He get’s in our plants from time to time. We try to have cat grass out…but that got too messy so we stopped…maybe a little wet food would help them…

One of my little softies just left a tootsie roll on the bathroom floor. They NEVER do this. I don’t know who the culprit is or why they would do this at this late date. WTF!

My Bruno collects ticks…back there. There is always much discussion about proper identification of these creatures prior to removal. After all, should it be a dingleberry, the task of removal is properly left to Bruno’s brother Lloyd.

Bruno seems to enjoy our quandary, and is quite coy about giving us glimpses of his behind.

That is unusual for a cat - usually they’re all like, “HEY! IT’S MY ASS! WANT A BETTER LOOK AT MY ASS? HERE - LET ME JUMP UP AND STICK IT IN YOUR FACE!”

A solution for dingleberries/klingong might be a water squirt bottle - squirt water on the ahem affected area and let the cat take care of it him or herself.

My BIL had a dog that ate one of his wife’s knee-hi stockings. They sall the toe end sticking out of his butt, and pulled the whole thing out. I would be afraid that it would also pull out something that’s supposed to stay in there.

they saw it. :smack:

Before we had dogs, we occasionally had cat-dingleberry problems, especially with the long-haired cats. Now the kitties no longer have to clean their own butts: the dogs will joyfully do it for them.

And people wonder why doggie breath smells so awful. :rolleyes:

LOL!!! :smiley: It’s the Hillbilly Draaaawl!!

Oh, he wants it seen, all right, but only if you don’t want to see it. Indicate an interest in the view and he’s all, “What are you, some kind of sicko? Pick on someone your own size, pervert!”

FYI, you are NOT supposed to pull out strings and pantyhose and suchlike from your animals’ rear ends. Could result in death. Seriously. Just trim it off if necessary.

Oh, man, I just had a memory dump.

I used to have a cat named Shithead for obvious reasons. Sweet as he could be but not real long on cat smarts.

One Christmas, we decorated the tree with tinsel. He ate some of it. We didn’t know until the next day when we saw him walking around with about two inches of aluminum hanging out his ass. I grabbed it and he just kept walking and zzwwoooppp - it just pulled right out. We took the tinsel off the tree after that.

Phlosphr, I second wetting the little guy’s butt and giving it a couple of minutes before trying to remove anything. If you’re lucky, the wetting might get him to take care of it himself.

A while back there was a mystery poo left on the carpet outside the cats’ bathroom. They never do such things so I was worried, until I remembered that one of my cats once needed a little help finishing up. It resulted in my holding a poo in the wet nap I’d used. Now if said cat had had trouble during the night when I wouldn’t have been ready with a wet nap, the poo might have been the first mystery poo. I checked their box for cleanliness and gave them both a dose of the kitty version of castor oil anyway. Never happened again.

I’ll have to try that…they’re all short-haired cats, and they eat a very strict and boring diet of dry food only. So I don’t know what would have made it difficult. It wasn’t smooshed like anyone was trying to remove a clingon. Just neatly laid out like a Lincoln Log. Mystery Poo Theater.

A guy I work with told a funny story.

His male cat ate a rubber band, how did they know? Because it was hanging half way out its ass. He got a paper towel and tried to pull it out. The rubber band streeeeeetched and SNAP. Thwaped the poor kitty in the nuts.

Said he didn’t see the cat for a week, and it was ages before he could get near it again.

Lucky he didn’t launch the damn cat across the room! :slight_smile: