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    MikeyFitzBeth Skwarecki
    7/21/16 1:53pm

    My cat loves potato chips. Every time I eat chips he comes running and will literally tap my hand with his paw until I give him one. Then he licks all of the salt off it and then eats it. He gets tired of this after like 2 or 3 chips, so it’s never much. He’s never had a problem with it but should I be concerned about anything in the chips bothering him? He also likes to eat applesauce. Like if I have a little plastic thing of Mott’s, he goes nuts licking it clean. Apples are good, right? Maybe I just have a weird cat...

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    itzTHATguyBeth Skwarecki
    7/21/16 1:38pm

    Ugh... My cat keeps trying to eat my ear plugs. She even knows the exact drawer I keep them in. Watching... Always watching...

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      empty seaitzTHATguy
      7/21/16 2:55pm

      God, cats are so weird.

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      PixiesGotABrandNewBurneritzTHATguy
      7/21/16 11:02pm

      This is earwax related. Both of our cats and every cat I’ve ever met goes crazy over it.

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    sidthecatBeth Skwarecki
    1/12/17 1:40pm

    I had a vet pull two meters of fishing line out of a Siamese cat...luckily no surgery needed, but an indelible childhood memory.

    If you’ve ever watched “The Incredible Doctor Pol” you’ll get a good idea of what our furry friends can do to themselves.

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    BobbyD17Beth Skwarecki
    7/21/16 2:17pm

    So, to prevent your cat from eating flowers or other plants with toxins in them, you can give them some peas.

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    JuggleManBeth Skwarecki
    7/21/16 1:49pm

    Dryer sheets.

    Our cat ate only a small piece of a dryer sheet (fabric softener sheet) while we weren’t looking and showed no immediate symptoms so we thought she was OK. The next day she started vomiting each meal she tried to eat and she wasn’t using her litter box.

    We took her to the vet and sure enough, the part of the sheet she ate was balled up in her intestine. Thankfully it was most of the way through, so the vet gave her an enema and was able to get the sheet out while still at the vet.

    Unfortunately, having a cat who’s just had an enema is like having a pastry bag filled with chocolate pudding walking around on four legs. Any time we picked her up a stream of... Well... I think you get the point.

    She spent the rest of the night meowing her head off in the bathroom.

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    saraBeth Skwarecki
    7/21/16 1:35pm

    To expound on the string catagory: I had a cat that needed emergency surgery at Christmas because he ate a huge wad of tinsel off of the tree that formed a blockage. That was a very expensive holiday.

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    HeathMaidenBeth Skwarecki
    11/03/18 2:46pm

    I think I knew about onions and garlic, but for some reason, I never put those together with green onions. I recently planted one in a planter, and my cats have been demolishing the green stalk on a regular basis. So far, no major effects (they eat it down before it can much grow), but clearly I need to transplant it to a planter they don’t have access to soon.

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