OT: I just saved my cat Options

[Trekkor]

My wife called me in because my cat was choking.

He was making that gross, "i've got a hairball", cough.

I carried him off the carpet, but he was getting worse.
He was starting to get limp and was rolling on his back hanging his tongue out gasping.

I opened his mouth and looked in his throat.
I could see the head of a sewing pin in the back of his mouth. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

We wrapped him in a towel so he wouldn't shred us.
I had to pluck the pin head out with him struggling and trying close his mouth.

I got it out and he has forgiven me.

he bit me...



KT

[MrKona]

One more thing... keep an eye on him and get him to a vet if anything doesn't look right. Who knows what that pin could have stuck in there...

[jsteele22]

One more thing... keep an eye on him and get him to a vet if anything doesn't look right. Who knows what that pin could have stuck in there...

No worries there. We all know a cat doesn't use its brain (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Kidding aside, good job trekkor. Glad your little moster will be around to drive you nuts.


Kinda, sorta on the same note, my sister has a chihuahua, quite a bit smaller than an average cat, that we took on a road trip. Towards evening she (the dog) started acting weird. By midnight, she was shaking, looking around eratically, totally unresponsive. We left the motel and drove all night to get her home to her vet. By the time morning came, though, she started to seem better, and was pretty much recovered by the time we got home. We think that she found some kind of drugs on the floor - prescription, meth, who knows ? Anyway, on the very next trip my sister took, she checked the floor of the room and found 2 pills. Just one more thing for pet lovers to stress about.