The above statement is factual.
So Detective Dopers, tell me how. I will post photographic evidence to verify it when our best detectives and crime writers have established the cause.
It’s the cat’s birthday, and the octopus found just the right gift.
Your cat had a furball (made of its own fur) and coughed it up after interacting with the octopus; or the octopus had something furry in its stomach and the cat found it.
Pictures of the octopus would be nice; pictures of the furball are unnecessary as far as I’m concerned.
No pictures yet as that would be a give away.
I am awaiting the furball to pass after giving the cat a laxette. Believe me, I don’t want to be close enough for any camera to take a picture when that happens.
TDN- I don’t think you are trying very hard 
Next time, shave the octopus first. Nobody wants to eat a hairy octopus.
The octopus is a plush furry cat (or other) toy. Your cat licked it like crazy, it shed its fur, and it made him/her sick.
Well jjim got pretty close but not totally right.
Here is the picture. I guess everyone agrees my cat is handsome.
This woulda been more of a mystery if you hadn’t already posted about it in one of the kitty threads. (I can’t remember which one, but it was recent - I probably read about it earlier this week.)
Just sayin’.
You are right Snickers. I did a search but couldn’t find it so I thought I was dreaming. Oh dear I AM getting decrepit.
Well hell then, go on and post in the “You know you’re old when…” thread. Fun for everyone!
I did.
I think.
He’s gorgeous.
Now I know you are fibbing. He is easily the ugliest cat I have owned. However, he has more personality than all of the others.
Your cat joined SDMB, and the octopus is the replacement for the non-flying squid?
-D/a
You’re becoming the go-to guy for mysteries involving animal effigies. We shall expect a new one weekly.
That octopus is an awesome cat toy. I wish my dog had an octopus like that, but at the same size proportions (it’d have to be like a 6’ octopus).
Is it really a cat toy? If so, where’d ya get it?
So that’s what they’re calling it these days? Geez I’m out of the loop.
I thought it was going to be this.
This is not one of my cats but that’s the same toy I just got for them yesterday and Luna is pretty far along with chewing the head off it.