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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, I think this can be quite dangerous.  I remember reading that contrary to all the warm and fuzzy pictures, you should never let a cat play with yarn because if they ingest it, it can get all tangled inside and cause serious harm.  [/quote]

It’s bad, yes. My kitten are a small piece of rope , unbeknownst to us, and he could not poop normally for 3+!weeks. When he wanted to poop it wouldn’t come out and then it came out later when he was playing?  I took him to the vet but it was a sub vet (not so great) and she didn’t do any xrays or anything - she diagnosed him with spina bifida and suggested I might consider putting him to sleep? I’m not great at listening to advise so I just took my baby and went home, kind of horrified. 
A few weeks later I noticed a poopy rope on the floor and assumed it came out of the cat. I put it in a plastic bag. Sure enough the cat began pooping normally - so it came out of the cat. I brought it to his next vet visit.

The rope was a thin rope like maybe the width of 8-12 strings of yarn? If the yarn gets tangled it could get stuck in there and cause problems. You hope it all passes okay. Call the vet and hope for the best? Get antibiotics once it passes as the trauma can cause an infection?

That little cat dude is my best bud now I’m very glad that I listen to no one. [/quote]

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