LOL! And ROFLMAO at the one about the yarn. My brother once had a cat who did something similar, with a strand of tinsel. Poor thing rubbed his bottom all over the apartment trying to get the last of it out.
Fortunately, the vet got it out without further incident. A carpet cleaning later everything was fine. Though my brother did have tinsel-less Christmas trees from then on... :-)
I knew someone who had to have the cat opened up because a string got suck in their intestine and ended up getting tied ina know. Cost him a couple thousand to save the cats life.
My own bad cat story: My cat Spock (yes, his name was Mr. Spock, stop laughing!) pulled a stunt that to this day amazes me.
I had purchased a lemon reamer (one of those hand-held lemon juicer things) that came in a blister pack. You know, the kind where there is a plastic bubble or blister holding your item against a cardboard backing. Anyway, my cat decided he wanted at the lemon reamer. I came home from work to find him gnawing on the thing.
The thing was, I hadn’t taken it out of the package yet. I’d left the package on the dining room table, where it no longer was. It puzzled the heck out of me, until I did a quick search of the room and discovered the “scene of the crime.”
As near as I can figure, here’s what happened: my cat knocked the package off the table and onto the floor. From there, he must have held the package steady with one paw, and used one of the claws on his other like an x-acto knife, cutting the blister all along its outside edge until he could open the package up and get the juicer. The cut was so perfect, you’d have sworn it had been done with a scalpel. Not an errant scratch anywhere, just one smooth, seamless cut around the plastic. It was downright eerie!