You're very lucky that the string "just came out". My DD cat ate over 5 yds. of ribbon...some hanging from his mouth...some out his butt. He had to have surgery...over $500.00 but if we had pulled it, they said we would have killed him. God Bless our Furbabies---they sure do keep us on our toes Right now we're doctoring our little one, CallaLily (9yrs old only 6 lbs) as she has Lyme type disease....never found the tick on her, but we almost lost her (and she's an indoor cat). Instead we found the tick on me!!! Did my round of meds and had a titer and I'm OK. But---Eeuuuuuu!