Warning for all cat owners

[aynt79]

Just a warning for all the cat people out there to remember to put away any plastic bags so kitty can't get into them.

I woke up this morning to the sound of one of the cats growling and meowing out in the living room. My first thought was that he was looking out the window and "fighting" with one the neighbor's cats who come around sometimes, it was that kind of meowing. I found him in the corner with his head stuck in the handle of a (full) grocery bag, Somehow he must of rolled around and got it twisted multiple times, so that now it was very tight on his neck and he couldn't move. I yelled for DH to get up and bring his knife, we got the bag cut off of him and he is fine now (the 1st thing he did was go and eat breakfast ). I don't think he was there very long, the dog would have investigated and woken us up.

The bag was full of things from a dinner I cooked at weekend trip to my family's, I didn't feel like putting the stuff away after we got home last night. I could follow the path of stuff that had fallen out of the bag around the living room, where he had dragged it and tried to get away from it. I hate to think about what may have happened if he had found a different bag while we were gone for a couple of days . He's 18 years old, he definately used one of his lives this morning. I need to do a good housecleaning anyways, so that's what I'll be doing today - to make sure I don't have any other bags of stuff laying around where they can get into them.

 

[escape]

What a scare! I'm glad your kitty is ok. Thanks for the warning.

I let my kitties play with them as I put up groceries but then I retrieve them when I'm finished.

 

[robinb]

I'm glad your kitty is OK!

 

[alldiz]

Wow....very scary....

I have a cat that is a food monster....

I woke one night to hear him throwing up....
It was CHICKEN BONE SHARDS
He went into the garbage and dragged out the rotisserie chicken...
thank goodness he is ok....I think...

Another time....I hear howling like you did....
Cat had his head STUCK under my kitchen cabinets in a space
I didnt know existed....
OMG....I was so scared...I got a bad scratch on my hand trying
to help..on accident....Thank god he got his head out...
There is NO way i could have gotten it out

Kerri

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

that is a good point!!!

we are already in the habit - one of our cats can not stay away from a plastic bag!!! She likes to chew them for some reason.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

My ferrets like to play in bags too, so I have to keep them out of their reach. They will usually claw through the bags, but I am always scared that one say they will get stuck.
I'm glad your kitty is ok!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Glad your cat was ok! One time Tigger got a shopping bag (the paper kind with the plastic handles) around his neck and was running around the house like a crazy cat. But the time we got to him the handle was twisted tight and it took one of us to hold him and one to cut it from his neck. If we hadn't been home he would have died. We now don't keep those bags around. This cat has used up several of his 9 lives.

 

[Sherri]

Just a warning for all the cat people out there to remember to put away any plastic bags so kitty can't get into them.

I woke up this morning to the sound of one of the cats growling and meowing out in the living room. My first thought was that he was looking out the window and "fighting" with one the neighbor's cats who come around sometimes, it was that kind of meowing. I found him in the corner with his head stuck in the handle of a (full) grocery bag, Somehow he must of rolled around and got it twisted multiple times, so that now it was very tight on his neck and he couldn't move. I yelled for DH to get up and bring his knife, we got the bag cut off of him and he is fine now (the 1st thing he did was go and eat breakfast ). I don't think he was there very long, the dog would have investigated and woken us up.

The bag was full of things from a dinner I cooked at weekend trip to my family's, I didn't feel like putting the stuff away after we got home last night. I could follow the path of stuff that had fallen out of the bag around the living room, where he had dragged it and tried to get away from it. I hate to think about what may have happened if he had found a different bag while we were gone for a couple of days . He's 18 years old, he definately used one of his lives this morning. I need to do a good housecleaning anyways, so that's what I'll be doing today - to make sure I don't have any other bags of stuff laying around where they can get into them.

Thanks for the warning and i'm glad your kitty is okay.
My cat always opens up the cabinets where the plastic bags are and takes them out. I will put them in the garage from now on. Luckily no tragedy has occured, but that doesn't mean it won't. I will be more careful from now on.

 

[RSoxFan]

I'm glad your cat is okay! My cat did the same thing once. My mom had accidentally stuck a screwdriver through her finger, so we took her to the ER. When we got home, the cat was sitting on top of the couch, looking out the window like he was waiting for us. When we walked in he meowed this pitiful little meow. I ran over and he had a plastic bag around his neck really tight. We had to cut it off. Gd only knows how long it had been like that. He knew enough to stop fighting with it and just wait for us to come home though.

 

[Virgo10]

Cats do manage to get themselves in the strangest predicaments. We use to have a small copper watering can. One of our cats (the one that's nearly blind) managed to get his head stuck in it. He was running around the house bouncing off of walls with this thing completely over his head! I finally was able to get a hold of him and thankfully we were able to slip it off his head without hurting anything but his pride.

Not funny then but it really was an amazing sight.

Glad your cat is OK!

 

[Nancy]

that is a good point!!!

we are already in the habit - one of our cats can not stay away from a plastic bag!!! She likes to chew them for some reason.

My older cat licks them and the sound drives me nuts so I never leave them laying around!

 

[Poohbear123]

My older cat licks them and the sound drives me nuts so I never leave them laying around!

Yep, my Tiggie does the same thing!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

My older cat licks them and the sound drives me nuts so I never leave them laying around!

exactly!! she just can't not do it - it is like she is driven tod o it if there is one anywhere near her!

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Thanks for the heads up ... I'm the worst about leaving Target bags with stuff in them lying around to be taken upstairs.

And what's up with all the bag lickers? Our old cat did that, too. Porkfat doesn't, though ... she'd rather just eat food all the time.

 

[daisyduck123]

Your story scared me while I was reading it.
I'm glad kitty is ok.

 

[miss missy]

Glad he is ok. Whew!

Mine likes to eat the bags and the plastic handles to garbage bags. Ribbons are the favorite, gotta keep all that stuff away from her. Just like a kid LOL

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

I learned from our vet that many plastic bags and some other consumer plastic packaging products are processed with animal fat to help them be slick so they don't stick together. That's why many animals (including one of our cats) like to play with, eat, lick, chew, etc. plastic bags, some kinds of packing tape, some plastic wraps, and other plastic wraping/packing stuff. I don't know why some animals go crazy over it and others will leave them alone - one of our cats, Rosalind, is a total plastic eater. She LOVES plastic bags and packing tape in particular (we just caught her knocking over the garbage can this morning to get to some packing tape). Beatrice, her sister, will occasionally chew a bag or packing tape, but does it more in a "I wonder why Rosalind thinks this is so great" kind of attitude.

 

[MsLeFever]

And what's up with all the bag lickers? Our old cat did that, too. Porkfat doesn't, though ... she'd rather just eat food all the time.

"Porkfat" may be one of the best cat names ever!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I learned from our vet that many plastic bags and some other consumer plastic packaging products are processed with animal fat to help them be slick so they don't stick together. That's why many animals (including one of our cats) like to play with, eat, lick, chew, etc. plastic bags, some kinds of packing tape, some plastic wraps, and other plastic wraping/packing stuff. I don't know why some animals go crazy over it and others will leave them alone - one of our cats, Rosalind, is a total plastic eater. She LOVES plastic bags and packing tape in particular (we just caught her knocking over the garbage can this morning to get to some packing tape). Beatrice, her sister, will occasionally chew a bag or packing tape, but does it more in a "I wonder why Rosalind thinks this is so great" kind of attitude.

animal fat - eww!!! well, that explains why the same cat that goes after the plastic bags also tries to pull the packing tape off my boxes!!!!!