My first ‘only belongs to me’ cat ate tinsel from the tree. Fortunately it wasn’t the old metal kind, but it was plastic and it bound him up. I took him to the vet who said that he was too weak to operate on and told me to take him home and see if he would eat. I took him home and he went at ONCE to the litter box and pooped out a (not exaggerating) foot long, hard poop that was mostly tinsel. Clear tinsel, his gut had removed any color from it…but he recovered after that and lived a looong life. Lesson learned…no tinsel on the tree, and only soft, fabric decorations down low. Fortunately, I never had a cat who knocked a tree over by climbing it!
My first ‘only belongs to me’ cat ate tinsel from the tree. Fortunately it wasn’t the old metal kind, but it was plastic and it bound him up. I took him to the vet who said that he was too weak to operate on and told me to take him home and see if he would eat. I took him home and he went at ONCE to the litter box and pooped out a (not exaggerating) foot long, hard poop that was mostly tinsel. Clear tinsel, his gut had removed any color from it…but he recovered after that and lived a looong life. Lesson learned…no tinsel on the tree, and only soft, fabric decorations down low. Fortunately, I never had a cat who knocked a tree over by climbing it!