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Our cat Harry loves eating rubber-- like actually eating it. A few years back we had a couple of those rubber cat balls (the ones that come in assorted toy packs) and he ate one and threw it up in pieces. I had to dig threw the garbage to make sure we had all the pieces and nothing was left inside of him-- fortunately, that was all of it. The pieces wound up on our vet's shelf of things dogs eat, even though Harry is a cat.
Well, he hasn't been eating since yesterday and threw up a few times over the weekend, which is totally unlike him. We planned to bring him in first thing Monday morning. We've removed ALL rubber toys from the house. We even threw out a couple of cat wands that had rubber blue handles because he had been chewing on them. We threw them out MONTHS ago over the summer. And he just threw up a 1 inch chunk of a blue wand handle!! It's possible it was a broken-off piece that rolled under something and he found it-- but it can't be possible it's been in his stomach for months, right? Right?!
We're still bringing him in tomorrow morning and probably they'll want to do an x-ray to account for more pieces. Does rubber even show on an x-ray? We're just stunned that we threw these wand toys out so long ago and somehow he managed to eat it anyway!
Well, he hasn't been eating since yesterday and threw up a few times over the weekend, which is totally unlike him. We planned to bring him in first thing Monday morning. We've removed ALL rubber toys from the house. We even threw out a couple of cat wands that had rubber blue handles because he had been chewing on them. We threw them out MONTHS ago over the summer. And he just threw up a 1 inch chunk of a blue wand handle!! It's possible it was a broken-off piece that rolled under something and he found it-- but it can't be possible it's been in his stomach for months, right? Right?!
We're still bringing him in tomorrow morning and probably they'll want to do an x-ray to account for more pieces. Does rubber even show on an x-ray? We're just stunned that we threw these wand toys out so long ago and somehow he managed to eat it anyway!