This Common Everyday Item Sent My Cat To The Vet! 🙀 

When Kaley started vomiting, I knew it wasn't just from eating her breakfast too fast. An emergency trip to the vet revealed the surprising thing that she had swallowed, and it took surgery to remove it. A warning to anyone who cares for cats - even the most innocent everyday item can be deadly! Let us know if YOU have a cat who ate something it shouldn't had, and what happened.

Even worse with thread & string, the barbs on their tongue do not allow them to stop eating it once they start, or spit it back out. Their only option is to keep swallowing it (unless someone sees it happening and can pull it back out for them).

So glad Kaley made it out ok! It was so wonderful when your mother in law adopted two of your bottle babies and joined the cat community!

Thanks ❤️ for that information the most people don't know about that 🙄

This is a good case for investing in pet insurance. I have it on my cat and it only costs me about half of what I pay for my cell phone every month. It’s well worth it.

My cat once pooped out an entire shoelace which got neatly braided by her bowels. I was freaked out 😱

I've taken to tossing floss into the toilet bowl and flushing it because I know if it goes into the trash, one kitty in particular will go through there and end up with it! Your story was a good reminder and something I had not previously considered (food particles on floss)!

We once gave our cat one of those wool balls used for sewing as a toy. Saw it in cartoons and movies, and she liked it. About an hour later I found her chewing on it so I pulled it away from her, only to find out she had already a lot of it inside her stomach, 1 meter at least, not kidding. Luckily she was unfaced and it came out very easily, but maybe some minutes later it would've been a terrible event. Since then, we keep everything thread-shaped that she can swallow away from her. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Don't leave soft, swallowable thread shaped stuff where your cats can grab it!

Decades ago, when my wife was a kid, one of her cats ingested a piece of string that did wrap around her intestines and killed her. Her mom did take her to the vet, but it was too late. I'm sorry Kaley had to have such major surgery. I had hoped there would have been an easier way to get the dental floss out of her system. We are very careful about things left around that a cat might chew on, especially our little mischievous boy Thomas who's into everything like your Sing-Sing. We also have to be careful what we leave on counter tops as Thomas loves to slide things off onto he floor. One of our Christmas glasses got broken that way about a month ago. It's like having kids except they never grow up! :-) I'm happy your mother-in-law's cat is OK. Often times pet owners aren't that fortunate. Losing a pet to anything other than old age is very hard to take.

I'm glad Kaley is okay. Good video.

Oh! Caroline, I got a new Kitten. I live on a Tropical Island and I have some rare neighbors in the apartment across the way who are Federal Islanders who are Pet Lovers (dogs and cats as PETS are part of a Civilization they're relatively new to) but I had gotten their dog a Flea Collar and dropped by to tell them that they had a beautiful Blond Red Tabby Tom that was as svelte as a Siamese (gorgeous thing!) and then the Lady of the House showed me a Calico Female she had... a short tempered Hissy Girl! but a beautiful Calico Pattern. Well, the other day their little Boy came to the door with this Torty Calico Kitten (about 8 weeks) saying "My Father said to give you this". Before opening the screen door I was thinking of a way to diplomatically say no but her appearance intrigued me. As a Tortie she was mostly Black, but with Feet dipped or splashed with White, a White throat, but her Snout is White and the starting from the tip of her nose up the bridge and all the way to the top of her Forehead is a Orange FLAME, an almost perfectly symmetrical Flame that comes to a Point and could be contained by a Triangle, but the straight lines on the sides being transformed into Flickers. And her Black Tail terminates in a Red Tip. Steaks of Red through out her coat, well, SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE CAUGHT FIRE IN HELL... the Cutest little Demon! I swear I didn't even THINK but that my Mind just said the name GLORIA to me, as though I was being introduced to my next cat. And, no, it wasn't the Father, it was the Mother. She is a Serious Lady that never smiles, bu the next time I saw her outside, I ran and got Gloria and held her up and gave her a kiss, and the Mother smiled like a school girl. Oh, and no fleas, and the kitten was healthy and active, and obviously well socialized, and even had a hint of a Shampoo smell. That Lady know her cats. But I was worried, my 3 Boys (Roary Bear the Red, Little Siamese Tommy, and Franky the French Chartreuse) were all hissy fitting, but after 3 days, well, I think Franky is my new Foxxy Buddy, who recently died at 17, who in the old days would be the first cat to welcome any new cat, and once he broke ranks and accepted the New, well, the rest would follow his lead. Well, Franky seemed charmed from the first, a cat all other cats can't help but to like. And he was the first to come around to Gloria. Yeah, just this morning, I saw Franky sneak up behind her and then swat her on the butt to make her scoot away in surprise, and neither one of them vocalized a hiss, and that means PLAY. And Little Gloria even ran up to Roary Bear and bopped him on his nose, and he was so surprised he almost forgot to hiss. Little Siamese Tommy is curious and follows her around, but backs up when she approaches. But he'll come around... at first he was hiding from her. Oh! Is this a Trick. I think it helps that when a cat is still hissing at a new kitten, to pick up the Kitten and present her BUTT FIRST to the Hissy Cat. They stop hissing and they lean forward to take a sniff. My Thinking is that they hiss because they are UNFAMILIAR with the Kitten, but how can they be 'unfamiliar' if they know THE ESSENSE OF THEIR TRUE SMELL or whatever it is they're sniffing for (maybe checking Food Source).

Very good idea for a film, I remember our cat once got a flower ribbon... Thank you for being so considerate 😘

I had a kitten get very sick and require surgery after eating a foam rubber ear plug. I'd didn't show in xrays either

I never let my cats chew on yarn, anything with strings or even feather toys. I do know from a dog I used to have that his intestines got twisted from eating socks how expensive that surgery is.

Tell me about vet bills! Our cat Baxter racked up $3000 this past summer due to a urinary tract infection. He was unable to empty his bladder. It would have killed him if we didn't get him the medical care he needed. He's one expensive stray cat! I wonder if some people would have had him euthanized?

Wow never would’ve thought of this! What a horrible way this could’ve gone! Her reaction when you stopped her from biting the tree was so funny!

My cat ate an elastic right after she finished her lunch, called the vet got her to barf and she barfed everything and including her lunch + the elastic which was chewed up she has eaten mask strings etc and they have all come out in her poop .

i found a little white kitten outside my house, she was hiding behind the door, she is so scared she shakes alot, i tried feeding her but she didnt want to eat, when i try to pet her she feels good but suddenly runs away from me, and at the night she keeps meowing i cant even sleep, idk what to do i dont even know who is her owner