I found two rubber bands. You left rubber bands where a cat could eat them. I’m going to eat them just to teach you a lesson. I’m going to gobble them up
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SO dangerous!
I have a cat named Frank, who was beaten and tortured as a kitten and barely survived. He has something called Pica, where he eats every thing he finds! Grass, shoelaces, and yup, especially rubber bands.
They can and will kill cats. They can cause them to choke or jam up guts.
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Mine just swats them so the slide on the floor. They eventually end up under something, and he can't reach them. When I need a rubber band, I know where to look.
As soon as a rubber band comes in, be in mail, vegetables, etc., I throw it in the trash. All-of-a-sudden, one or both cats are playing with a rubber band. They haven't been in the garbage because they can't access it. WHERE did they get that!? 😂
Jorts, I would normally encourage any and all pettiness. But this pettiness would ultimately cause you distress, so maybe let this particular lesson be learned another way.
Jortsy, there are good choices and there are bad choices. Someone made a bad choice by leaving the rubber bands there. But you would be making another bad choice by gobbling them up! Wouldn't it be better to make a good choice and not eat them, but instead to stare at them with grave disappointment?
Jorts, You don't want to eat those rubber bands unless you want to go visit the vet and it will be a lot worse than your annual checkup and rabies shot.
"I'm going to stare over there and pretend I don't see the dangerous weapons you carelessly left in reach of a wonderful, loyal pet who does not have opposable thumbs. Think about that."
OK, but just be aware that the $3,000- surgery bill is going to be coming out of your treats budget.
I'm not saying don't eat the rubber bands, I'm just saying choose wisely.
Oh dear Jorts. You are a big, grown up, sensible cat and you wouldn't eat those rubber bands. But thank you for pointing it out so the human can pick them up in case a kitten, or a cat with bad judgement happened to wander by.
Potentially an expensive lesson and not so fun for you if the vet has to explore your insides. Let’s not eat rubber bands, they’re fun going down but otherwise, no. 🧡
Don't do it, Jorts! Puck here swallowed a little piece of elastic cord and even though he avoided surgery he had to spend all day at the vet getting help to flush it out. While he was there he caught a cold, which he shared with two of his kitty friends at home! They are not happy about it.
How ‘bout a safety compromise: a pair of cat-safe elastic toys, and you can ride in @davewagner.bsky.social’s backpack when he goes to the bog?
(IIRC, @seananmcguire.bsky.social offered a leash & harness system, but given how you seem to feel about your feetsies getting wet, maybe that’s a backup.)
Been there too. The problem is if they are not thrown up and pass from the stomach into the small intestines. Then there are big and potentially expensive problems.
Oh, Jorts. I had a cat who, on two separate occasions, ate those big, thick blue rubber bands that come around broccoli after I was sure I had rid the house of rubber bands!
Of course, I only discovered this when he shit them out.
Why is “endup in tha boneyards” objectively hilarious yet distressing when thinking about cats. I can’t help but laugh. But it’s not funny. I’m blue screening.
We had a cat that would steal hair rubber bands and drop them in her water bowl. She died suddenly of feline leukemia at the age of 2. It’s been almost 3 years without Merida, yet every now and then there will be a hair rubber band in the animals water bowl.
We do. I took her to the vet, thinking she had a cold, 2 hours later I was told she was dying and there was nothing that could be done. I asked them to try and prolong her life until I could get my kids and granddaughter there who slept with Merida every night. We were all there when she died.
I was told to expect our other 2 cats to also die since they shared bowls, so the pain was excruciating. The others didn’t die, including her littermate brother. Wherever we see rubber bands in the bowl, we get teary-eyed and say out loud how much we love and miss her.
So sorry for this loss and painful memory. I tried to nurse a kitty back to life from abandonment on the side of the highway and sadly she didn’t make it after making some positive progress. She died in my arms and I told myself I wouldn’t wish that feeling of loss on my worst enemy. Except trump
I had a cat who tried to eat a paper clip... and got it stuck on his tongue 👅 It took a trip to the vet, and two lots of anesthetic to fix it!!! We can't trust the little buggers with anything!
Not the rubberbands, Jorts! No! Maybe you could gather them softly in your teefs, deliver them to bed pillows (preferably newly laundered) drop them there, and then make a really big barf?
(My Oliver loved to play with Qtips! I had to hide the used ones under stuff in the bathroom trash because he'd look and swipe ones he could see. I also had to secure the trash can so he couldn't turn it over and dig in it. Because he would. I did give him fresh ones to play with. Happy cat!)
(LOLOL! Fortunately, he never wanted to eat them. He just loved to play with them. He'd throw them around, then chase them, fight with them, etc. He didn't even chew on them!)
None of our other cats ate rubber bands, but our fluffy orange Manx ate one. We didn't realise until we saw it hanging out of his butt. EWWW! 🤮 I wanted to pull it out, but couldn't bring myself to touch it.
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I have a cat named Frank, who was beaten and tortured as a kitten and barely survived. He has something called Pica, where he eats every thing he finds! Grass, shoelaces, and yup, especially rubber bands.
They can and will kill cats. They can cause them to choke or jam up guts.
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You're a SWEET POTATO!
It could lead to VET!!!
I'm not saying don't eat the rubber bands, I'm just saying choose wisely.
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Soon after his supervisor squints at the mud, pulls at the end of a rubber band and yoinks Jorts right out of the bog.
Once again Jorts surfs a metaphorical window screen to safety.
Oh
Shit
He’s
At it again
(IIRC, @seananmcguire.bsky.social offered a leash & harness system, but given how you seem to feel about your feetsies getting wet, maybe that’s a backup.)
(I sound like a brat, but it's because I worry about you, bestie.)
Please don’t eat the rubber bands, bestie
Of course, I only discovered this when he shit them out.
You might be OK.
Then again, you might not.
Do you feel lucky?
I will put them away at once and then you can come over here for a cuddle, sound good?
(probably not really)
fuck shit up, Jorts
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They must approve of all changes on the domestic front.
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Second -- JORTS! NO!