Cat ate a present string!!

[pdwbentley]

My little Aria ate an entire shoelace a couple of months ago, with the plastic bits on the end and everything. Very big, fat shoelaces. We had left a few hanging around the house attached to things for her to play with and obviously she managed to get one off and decided to chow down!

She became incredibly lethargic, wouldn't eat or drink, wouldn't (or rather, couldn't) use the bathroom. We took her to the vet and they ended up doing x-rays because we didn't know what had happened, and they didn't show up on the x-ray! The vet decided to give her an enema as a precaution to see if it helped her pass anything and sure enough, out came a shoelace!

You'd be amazed what a cat can manage to pass through their system though. I think the shoelace was just a little bit TOO thick for Aria to pass on her own, but a thin string may just go right through! Keep an eye out for those symptoms.

[rketto]

I think the string is dissolved by now... hopefully. Gabe has shown no problems and is still eating/drinking/bathrooming the same... thank god! But I took away all the present strings for good.

Sorry to hear about other's misfortunes with cats eating things.