firecat: cartoon cat eating something onna stick (snack cat soup)
firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2006-08-17 09:19 am

...and speaking of pets that do disgusting things...

I was tidying my study. I found a small ball of yarn and put it on my desk. Then I began filing some stuff.

Angus was sitting on the cat condo next to my computer and a few minutes later he began coughing.

I briefly had a cat who had lung cancer, so a coughing cat is scary to me.

I shut the door because if he was going to puke, I wanted him to stay where there was a hardwood floor, and I went over to see what was going on.

The ball of yarn was hanging out of his mouth. I picked it up and began pulling gently. About 3 yards of yarn came out of his mouth. He stopped coughing. A few minutes later he was rolling on his back begging to play.

This is a cat who won't eat a single table scrap or cat treat. Yarn and carpet fluff, on the other hand - Yum!

Safety note: If I didn't know that he had just started eating the yarn I wouldn't have pulled it out, because it could have gotten tangled up in his digestive system and caused damage when removed. Or at least I've seen that scenario on Emergency Vets.

[identity profile] textivore.livejournal.com 2006-08-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you'd have taken him to the vet right quick then?

I first read your title as POETS doing disgusting things. So now I'm stuck with an image of a goateed man in a black beret, drinking coffee but with yarn hanging from his mouth...

[identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com 2006-08-17 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad he's okay!

Naughty kitty. :(

I've had to do that too (pull stuff that they just started chowing on out of their mouths). It's pretty gross.

I saw someone in the cafeteria today that looked just like you from the back! I kept wanting them to turn around so I could see if they looked like you from the front too.

[identity profile] epi-lj.livejournal.com 2006-08-17 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be awesomely handy! We could 'do lunch'!

[identity profile] usqueba.livejournal.com 2006-08-17 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Our cat does eat table scraps but he also will eat lint, carpet, plants, bugs (dead or alive) :P