Well, yesterday, I was pretty nervous, because Piper, our newest little furball, wasn’t as playful as usual, and she was eating less. She slept most of the day, and just nibbled at her food.
After what happened last year, with Tess, as I’m sure most of you will remember, I was so scared that she would be sick! My mother thought maybe her stitches are bothering her-they fixed her a few days before we got her.
Well, then-and this is really gross-my mother saw STRINGS sticking out of her butt.
We discovered she’s been chewing on the carpet and on the undersides of the sofas in the living room-which probably upset her stomach! So, now we have to watch as she poops it out-you have to just trim it you do NOT pull it out!
Interesting. Shortly after my Little Cat was spayed, she ate a handful of elastic bands. She never repeated that performance. It was a one-time event. I wonder if it’s some weird thing that has to do with hormones, a side effects craving from anaesthetic, or just a stress reaction?
(Well, once she ate all the teeny-weeny, red hot chilli peppers off of a plant – drank a salad bowl of water afterwards. So maybe it’s just that she’s part goat and we haven’t moticed the other things she’s been eating.)
You know those fuzzy things you put on toilet tanks so you can put things on top? My cat Chelsea used to bite all the fuzz off. She would stand on the toilet seat lid, grab a mouthful, bite it out, and spit it out on the floor. My toilet tank topper had a bald spot.
I got worried at first, eating that stuff can’t be too healthy. After I realized she wasn’t eating it, I relaxed.
Be alert, sometimes when cats eat that stuff it can turn dangerous. (but I’m sure you know that).
We had a dog that did this once. My dad put carpet in his doghouse, and he ate it. Weird dog. We didn’t do any trimming or pulling though, we just let nature take its course.
We bought a doggy sweater for my landloard’s very short-haired dog, so he could be toasty on winter days (they had a heated kennel, but the two furry stooges would run around the yard all day.)
My ex’s cat once ate a length of Christmas-tree tinsel. Nobody noticed until he was walking around with several inches of tinsel hanging out of his back end. Christmas Kitty!
Guin…my late cat Boo chewed my cd player/walkman cord too, and he did get zapped once - he chewed through my alarm clock cord. Luckily he didn’t get hurt, but I know he was surprised - he gave a MRRooowww and jumped back really fast.
Thank the lucky stars none of my current cats chew cords -although Hanna likes to pick up stuff in her mouth. I threw a blister wrapper from a cold medicine caplet in the bathroom garbage, and later I found the wrapper on the floor all chewed up. :rolleyes:
