Swallowing a sewing needle
Jenny posted about our cat swallowing Cassandra's sewing needle during last Sunday's knitting circle over at tooboo (Tie one on, Bind one off).
It's apparently really common. I called my dad's girlfriend, a librarian and former cat-owner and she found us a 24 hour cat ER in NYC in about 30 seconds flat. We called and they explained that ingesting sewing needles was probably not a big deal, but that we should get him in quickly for X-Rays and surgery. Luckily the needle made its way to him stomach without lodging in his esophagus or ripping up anything on the way. They gave him emergency surgery-- really... we were up waiting for the results until 1am! Here's one of his X-Rays.
As soon as we got him home, he started playing with my drawstring pajamas! His yarn/ string addiction is impossible.