Herewith, a cat thread that would not be improved by pictures.

[Demoiselle]

This morning, as I woke, I noted that my sweet and somewhat matronly calico cat Olga appeared to be sporting (if that's the word) a second tail. A tail made of white thread,
about ten inches long, protruding from, well, you know. I followed her and tugged gently on the thread. It came out quite easily. All of it--more than a yard of dental floss, to be exact.
Thank goodness it had not tied bowknots in her intestines. Although vaguely annoyed with me, she seems to be fine now. No tender tummies or that hunkering down shoulders hunched pose that cats who are feeling awful get into.
So I'm going to have to be much more careful about dental floss disposal in the future. (Sealed containers, or something.)
And no, it was not mint flavored.

Thank you all for letting me share.

[hedgehog]

1. How do you know it wasn't mint flavored?

[Demoiselle]

2. Cute. Because we don't have mint flavored floss in the household. (icky.)

[yawnmaster]

19. But how do you know it wasn't mint flavored when you pulled it out!?! eom

[LearnedHand]

9. DUzy!!

(oh please, oh please) :rofl:

[grace0418]

3. Mine did that with an entire spool of thread he dug out of my sewing box.

Luckily cod liver oil did the trick, no surgery needed. I'm glad Olga is okay.

[Captain Hilts]

4. I pulled a LONG strand out of Major Mosby's butt once. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. A cat thread that would not be improved by pictures...

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When will you people learn that it's not nice to challenge MiddleFingerMom?
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[Demoiselle]

22. My GOD MFM! Did your cat swallow a rubber ducky?

You have improved the thread with a picture. I yield to your ineffable skills.
(!!!???how??!!)

[EndersDame]

6. That is nothing I had to pull a semi digested lizardout of my sweet late cat Grady

Rip dude

[stuntcat]

7. oh lucky kitty!

lucky it didn't really hurt her!

[TZ]

8. Thats similar to ...Tinsel Butt!!!

Never EVER have tinsel on your xmas tree with a cat around...:scared:

[GoCubsGo]

10. Next time, please don't tug it.

This time it came out easily. But, you had no idea how long it was. Had it still been winding its way through the intestines, you could have cut them on the inside, much like the way you slice cheese with a wire cheese cutter. That can lead to all sorts of really, really bad problems. Just snip it off as it comes out. That goes for dogs, too. :-)

When I first started reading this, I was thinking "tapeworm." But, cat tapeworms don't get that long. BTW, maybe you should try mint dental floss. Most cats I know don't like the smell of mint. Maybe she's the same, and she'll leave it alone. When my old boy was a kitten, he used to chew on electrical cords. I smeared on a thin layer of tooth paste, and he never went near them again. He found some other things to teeth on.

[kiva]

11. Agree with most of what you said except for the mint part.

My older boy cat loves peppermint candies, I have to watch him when I have pinwheel mints around. I mentioned this to another cat person and she pointed out that catnip is in the mint family, so it wasn't surprising.

[WolverineDG]

12. Catnip is mint & cats that go for catnip

will go for anything remotely mint-flavored or scented.

dg

[GoCubsGo]

25. Catnip is not mint

But, it is in the same family. My cats adore catnip, but they do not like spearmint or peppermint. Let them sniff a tube of toothpaste, and they scrunch their faces like they're smelling something foul. And, they can't get away from it fast enough.

[Captain Hilts]

13. I think the key word here is 'thread'. At least it was in Mosby's case. nt

[pink-o]

14. Ah, beat me to it! n/t

[JBoy]

15. So it was butt floss.

[madmom]

16. Same here but with christmas tree tinsel. Not good!

[hedgehog]

17. I can top tinsel butt.Smokey had tinsel butt one time.

We also burn Hannukuh candles. We had the menorah blazing away on the supper table, and Smokey hopped up to see what was going on. Shortly after, we caught a whiff of something, and one of the kids announced "Uh, cat's on fire." (He was very calm about it). I caught Smokey and patted out the smoldering fur. He'd singed some of the out guard hairs and never felt the heat. I had visions of a flaming cat running through the house hiding under the beds.






Smokey was pretty smart, but he did the same thing the following year. I guess that means we're pretty dumb.

[Sanity Claws]

18. I had to pull plastic wrapper out of my dog's butt

Apparently he swallowed plastic wrapping that still smelled of meat. I didn't know it but when he went to relieve himself out in the yard, he had "expelled" only part of it. He was in so much distress about having this wrapper hanging from his butt -- so much whimpering!! I tried to calm him while I gently tugged the rest of it out.

Aaah -- the pleasures of pet ownership!

[applegrove]

20. When I was a kid our cat did that same thing - only with Christmas tree tinsel.

[Iggo]

21. Um....Don't tuch the but. (n/t)

[blogslut]

23. Here's how my eyes and brain deceive me

I thought you wrote:

"...a tail made of white bread..."

I really think I have some sort of unique dyslexia because my brain does that with text all the time.

[Demoiselle]

26. Now THAT would indeed be worth a picture! (I misread like that all the time.)

[Maine-ah]

24. lol, one of ours (years ago, rip)

had a bologna string hanging out....ick.