With the holiday season approaching, I just wanted to remind everyone about the dangers of ribbon & share my recent scare.
I received a package last week with 2 pretty ribbons almost 1 inch wide & 3 foot long. As usual my cats were very interested in the new package & played with the one of the ribbons for awhile. I thought that I threw them away & forgot about it. Four days later I found a bundled heap of ribbon in some vomit.
I didn't know which cat had swallowed the ribbon, but soon realized that it was Jazzpurr because he continued to vomit, plus I weighed him & he had lost over 2 pounds!. I immediately called my vet's office & since it was around closing time the receptionist said they call me 1st thing the next morning. The vomiting got worse, Jazzpurr wasn't keeping anything down, so I called the vet at his house & he told me to meet him at his office right away. He started him on an IV & meds right away & took an x-ray. From the x-ray, Jazzpurr's intestines looked bunched up, like he may have still had something in there. They did exploratory surgery the next following morning & thankfully there was no obstruction & everything looked fine.
Jazzpurr's home now & recuperating form the surgery.
It's so scary to think that I could have lost him over a ribbon! I heard about the dangers of small items, needles, thread, pieces of yarn... but, I never dreamed that one of my cats would swallow a 3 foot ribbon!
I don't know if Jazzpurr learned a lesson from his ordeal... but I sure have! I will definitely be more careful about what I leave out in the future!
Here's my boy showing off his boo-boo.
He's doing great, these were taken today.
The bad ribbon that nearly did him in...
Luckly, the worst of his adventure is a big scar & a bad haircut.
I received a package last week with 2 pretty ribbons almost 1 inch wide & 3 foot long. As usual my cats were very interested in the new package & played with the one of the ribbons for awhile. I thought that I threw them away & forgot about it. Four days later I found a bundled heap of ribbon in some vomit.
Jazzpurr's home now & recuperating form the surgery.
Here's my boy showing off his boo-boo.
He's doing great, these were taken today.
The bad ribbon that nearly did him in...
Luckly, the worst of his adventure is a big scar & a bad haircut.