My cat Freya, is driving me crazy.
Since she was a young kitten, she started showing an aggressive behavior towards food in general, and we had to eat with our hands covering our dishes to stop her from stealing our food, whatever food it was. She also has a very strong prey drive, so everything that moves HAS to be chased and chewed or taken around the house in her mouth. No matter how small or tiny an insect can be, she spots it without fail, and she's not happy until she catches and eat it.
Furthermore, she tends to chew on just anything she finds in the house.
I remember the first incident, she was around 5 months old, she chewed on the cable of my earphones. In the morning I only found the plug and the earbuds on the floor.
The second incident a couple of months later, she ate all the string for my eyeglasses. She expelled it two days later.
Since then, we tried to be extremely careful on what is left around, but no matter how careful we are, she still can find something to chew and swallow. Toy mice lost their tails, so now I only buy toys without any string, or I cut it away as soon as I come home from the shop. She ate two small furry items we had on a shelf, I found this out because I saw pieces of this stuff in her poops for days. Once she managed to open a metal case where I would keep the pouches for my outdoor cats (it had a tough latch, I don't know how she managed to open it), she chewed on the pouches to reach the content, but she also ate the material of the pouches. And again I found pieces of that stuff in her poops for days. Last week she managed to find (don't know where she found it) and eat a rubber band, I didn't know that until I found segments of this rubber band in her poops.
Last night she was able to find another very long rubber band, and ate it all. I know it was left unattended last night, this morning I remembered of it and couldn't find it.
I spent the whole morning at the clinic, where the vets ran an US scan, and saw at least one segment, one inch long, in her stomach. The rubber band was around 15 inches long (total length), but they couldn't find the remnants, so they tried to make her vomit, and failed, she didn't vomit.
They told me to keep her monitored until next Sunday, hopefully she should pass it. In case I notice any symptoms, I have to rush her back to the clinic.
Freya has just turned 2 years old, if we're lucky she could live 15 more years, but I just can't stand this level of stress.
How do I stop this thing?
Since she was a young kitten, she started showing an aggressive behavior towards food in general, and we had to eat with our hands covering our dishes to stop her from stealing our food, whatever food it was. She also has a very strong prey drive, so everything that moves HAS to be chased and chewed or taken around the house in her mouth. No matter how small or tiny an insect can be, she spots it without fail, and she's not happy until she catches and eat it.
Furthermore, she tends to chew on just anything she finds in the house.
I remember the first incident, she was around 5 months old, she chewed on the cable of my earphones. In the morning I only found the plug and the earbuds on the floor.
The second incident a couple of months later, she ate all the string for my eyeglasses. She expelled it two days later.
Since then, we tried to be extremely careful on what is left around, but no matter how careful we are, she still can find something to chew and swallow. Toy mice lost their tails, so now I only buy toys without any string, or I cut it away as soon as I come home from the shop. She ate two small furry items we had on a shelf, I found this out because I saw pieces of this stuff in her poops for days. Once she managed to open a metal case where I would keep the pouches for my outdoor cats (it had a tough latch, I don't know how she managed to open it), she chewed on the pouches to reach the content, but she also ate the material of the pouches. And again I found pieces of that stuff in her poops for days. Last week she managed to find (don't know where she found it) and eat a rubber band, I didn't know that until I found segments of this rubber band in her poops.
Last night she was able to find another very long rubber band, and ate it all. I know it was left unattended last night, this morning I remembered of it and couldn't find it.
I spent the whole morning at the clinic, where the vets ran an US scan, and saw at least one segment, one inch long, in her stomach. The rubber band was around 15 inches long (total length), but they couldn't find the remnants, so they tried to make her vomit, and failed, she didn't vomit.
They told me to keep her monitored until next Sunday, hopefully she should pass it. In case I notice any symptoms, I have to rush her back to the clinic.
Freya has just turned 2 years old, if we're lucky she could live 15 more years, but I just can't stand this level of stress.
How do I stop this thing?