5/14 Miss Meows AMPS 194, PMPS 283

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So yeah, my kitty is officially a vacuum. I was testing her BG for PMPS and turned my head to place the neosporin next to me, turned back and the top was gone! She may have eaten it in her hurry to eat her treats... but I never witnessed it the theft. It may be on the floor, but I crawled around a bit and can't find it. Not sure what everyone's lancets look like, but these tops are flat and about the size of a medium pea.

Soooo... what do we think? She's gonna poop a pink top out tonight or tomorrow???
 
She could have inhaled it along with her treats. If she's anything like Furball, she sucked it up. I wouldn't think it would cause any problems. It should just come out the other end.
 
I'm on hold with Targets customer service people. They are double checking that the plastic is "safe" to eat. I'm pretty sure she can poop it out, I just want to be sure she doesn't get poisoned from the plastic.
 
Welp... on hold for over 30 minutes only to have the guy not be able to hear me??? UGH! He kept saying to unmute my phone but it wasn't muted, he couldn't even hear me pushing numbers, I betcha he had me on mute!

Well, while waiting on hold, I found a thread from 2011 where someones cat ate a lancet top AND test strips! Kitty was fine. So I'll just keep monitoring her for changes...

I wonder how many carbs this would count as ;)
 
One of our housemate's cats goes hunting round the house for plastic to eat. Any and all kinds of plastic. Unfortunately, he's taught the same bad habits to our youngest cat (we're trying to break her of that habit). But the worst it's caused him is that occasionally he'll vomit pieces of plastic back up. The amount Ivory eats probably isn't doing him much good long term, but if he can survive that I think a single lancet top shouldn't do Angel any real harm.
 
manxcat419 said:
One of our housemate's cats goes hunting round the house for plastic to eat. Any and all kinds of plastic.
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Kitty does this to an extent as well. Fortunately, this is the first time she actually swallowed plastic. Usually I just come home and find teeth marks in the bread plastic, or in the little plastic baggies my subway tokens are in :) I'll just have to be more vigilant in the future.

Thanks for the reassurance though, I recalled reading something about poisonous plastic and it had me a bit worried.
 
I think I'd settle for a few teeth marks instead of chunks of plastic being swallowed here - we've even had headsets and the antennae for the wireless router chewed up when Ivory can't find anything he can actually swallow. Then again, he is one of the strangest cats I've ever met in lots of other ways too!! :P
 
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