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I've seen and read a lot of information online about this particularly popular issue (foreign linear body) and my thoughts go out to anyone who has dealt with it before, because it seems to be a pretty stressful waiting game.
For starters, my cat is a Russian Blue and I live in Korea. 72 hours ago my cat ate a thin, very light, five foot long thread it had pulled from one of my chairs. I practically fed it to him which makes me feel horrible, i just had no idea it posed the danger it did. We were playing with it one moment, then i went to put on my jacket, turned around and gone!
I have visited 2 separate vet here and they both said similarly that if he doesn't show the common signs: not eating, vomiting, lack of energy; that there is nothing they can do. And rightly so, he hasn't shown any signs. He is eating normally, going to the bathroom normally, acting normal.
My question then is, having seen no sign of string in his litter box, and having not noted any of the symptoms, how long can it take for a cat to experience these symptoms and is it possible that because the thread was so light that it dissolved and was digested normally with the rest of his food?
I hate the waiting, but they don't want to do x-ray because apparently a thin thread would not show up and for a camera down the throat they wanted between 4 - 5 hundred dollars... yikes.
Thanks.
For starters, my cat is a Russian Blue and I live in Korea. 72 hours ago my cat ate a thin, very light, five foot long thread it had pulled from one of my chairs. I practically fed it to him which makes me feel horrible, i just had no idea it posed the danger it did. We were playing with it one moment, then i went to put on my jacket, turned around and gone!
I have visited 2 separate vet here and they both said similarly that if he doesn't show the common signs: not eating, vomiting, lack of energy; that there is nothing they can do. And rightly so, he hasn't shown any signs. He is eating normally, going to the bathroom normally, acting normal.
My question then is, having seen no sign of string in his litter box, and having not noted any of the symptoms, how long can it take for a cat to experience these symptoms and is it possible that because the thread was so light that it dissolved and was digested normally with the rest of his food?
I hate the waiting, but they don't want to do x-ray because apparently a thin thread would not show up and for a camera down the throat they wanted between 4 - 5 hundred dollars... yikes.
Thanks.