Originally Posted by QBeth
Originally Posted by Katia
My cats like to come in and check things out, look out the window, all that sort of thing, but they do not stay long. I am up and down too much and I think I disturb them.
I will say that we all need to be very, very careful about threads laying about. The cats I have now are not interested in playing with threads at all. But I did have a six month old kitten that decided thread was great fun to play with. In the process he ate some and ended up having surgery to remove 80% of his intestines. I was just sick about it, and the pain he had to go through because of my not knowing how dangerous thread could be. This kitten was a Maine Coon male that I bought to show and was the prettiest, sweetest cat ever. At six months he was already over ten pounds and would have been much bigger if he had lived longer. After the surgery, he recovered, but never grew any bigger and only lived another six months. The vet said that he was surprised he made it that long. But it sure broke my heart, and I am very careful about thread around all my pets now.
Ooooh, I am so sorry to hear about your kitty!! Such heart break.
Mine aren't particularly interested in thread, either, but I am very vigilant (paranoid psychotic, really!) about thread, string, ribbon on balloons, anything that might be dangerous. It's second nature now, after having cats since 1986.
I had a kitty that seemed "above" thread, yarn and ribbon until one day I noticed her acting very different and discovered a bit of ribbon protruding from her hiney. An emergency visit to the vet on a Sunday afternoon revealed a ribbon about a foot long. The vet angrily (and rightly so) advised me that the ribbon could have gotten tangled in her intestines and killed her. I (or perhaps I should say my kitty) was lucky and the ribbon came out with gentle pulled by the vet.
Another piece of advice...if you ever have a similar incident do like I did...bring your kitty to the vet. Doing it yourself can cause severe injury.
By the way...I have five cats and one dog. Our house is "extremely" small and I have to sew in the office/kitty-dog playroom/sewing room/storage room!