austin_tycho | (no subject)

This morning, Eric noticed 2nd cat Bowie was 'acting funny' so he took him to the vet. They eventually discovered that he had what they initially thought was a rubber band, then dental floss, and finally some carpet remnant wrapped around the base of his tongue, cutting off some circulation, and they don't know where the other end of it had ended up. They put him under to find out what was going on. She couldn't see the end of it, which was not good news. She said there was a possibility that if she snipped it, he could just pass it harmlessly (and amusingly) and everything would be fine. Or, it could go down and knot up his intestines and burst into flame and be a bad, bad thing. So she asked Eric (Bowie's his cat) what he wanted to do, and he okayed (expensive) surgery where they were going to basically fillet him until they found the end of the string. She was getting ready and clamped the piece of string that she could see. Then Bowie grabbed that end and pulled thirty inches of string out himself. Vet goes "well, okay then" and calls us, tells us he's probably going to be fine- just to keep an eye on him. She's even bringing him up to our end of town, since we both live on the far north end and we had headed home already.

Disaster averted! Huzzah!