EW!

[blamebrampton]

Three things I have:
* A sofa with high arms.
* A lovely but naughty Monster cat who likes to sit on the arms and back of the sofa.
* Rather long hair.

Some of you will have guessed what happens next.

Mon often reaches out to bunt the back of my head and demand chin scratching. Sometimes she just leans her head against the back of mine and purrs at me, or leans out and clambers onto me for a cuddle. Tonight she was sitting behind me having a good old groom. Then I went to stand up. My hair was caught, I assumed she was sitting on some of it. Oh no.

She had swallowed 18 inches of a lock.

Cat digestive juices ... ew! Thank goodness it's hair washing night!

Comments

Re: Oh, wow! All the machinery's ganging up on me again! VYVYAN!

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

I must stop thinking about that merlin_muses prompt and write my hd_fan_fair fic instead!

So, it looks like you've signed up for three fests during your festless period, right? *offers cookies of solidarity* Me, too! ;)

[brissygirl.livejournal.com]

That is really gross!

Mum's cats like to eat things they shouldn't as well. Especially Skipper, he'll eat anything from cat toys and rubber bands, to wires (for the tv or stereo), feathers from the teaser toys you get for cats. Basically anything they can find to chew through they will do it.

Re: Oh, wow! All the machinery's ganging up on me again! VYVYAN!

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

It was like that bit in Alice Through The Looking Glass, when Alice is in the Looking Glass Garden and no matter how hard she tries to reach the hill she just keeps walking in at the back door! o.O

I am now banking on not making the hols lottery, and on my muses fic writing itself...

[silvershinigami.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. D:

[maya231.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that my first thought was "poor kitty!" and not "poor Brammers?"

That's really a bizarre tale--I think I would have had a nanosecond of heart attack were I in your position. Glad the cat (and your hair) are fine.

Focusing on the only part I can process

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

...

18 inches is very long.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think it was probably even less pleasant for her than me, so no, that's not wrong! She's a mad little thing, though. I've no idea why she thought it would be a good idea!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh poor you! But how sweet that you were so concerned for her feelings! (It's nominative determinism -- she was checking out your taste for when she eats your brains. I tell Mr B that Monster would have never done any of these things had we named her Perfectly Well Behaved.)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's what I said!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, I spotted it before any damage could be done. My bleached locks are all dyed bright red!

It was the weirdest sound, though ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think your reactions mirrored mine exactly ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Evil gnashy little teeth! Cookie has previously eaten through the cord of my BOSE headphones and Monster is not to be trusted with wool, to the point that balls with needles through them have walked about the house. But this is the first time either of them has gone for hair ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It was so very wrong!

Re: Focusing on the only part I can process

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

My hair grows rather quickly. Waist to hip length is my default, because it costs too much to keep it short!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

EW! We do trim the hair on Cookie's bottom to avoid this very problem ...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I do cut my own hair, but it's still a problem once it went through their poor stomachs (it's never theirs). Sorry, I'll stop now, I ... try!!

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Yuck. Why do our cats do such things? Tonight, I had to play the fun game of "Find the Puke". *grimaces* I found one wee bit, then another, then another...

Can't you just throw up all in one big pile?! GAH!

[silvershinigami.livejournal.com]

I once had to pull about six inches of ribbon out of my cat's throat. I am imagining that: ribbon x 3 x 500 strands of hair = bleeeech

[(Anonymous)]

At least she isn't a labrador puppy - it's amazing what they manage to eat.

Charlotte

PS: I have experience with cats ingesting human hair and the trouble it can cause coming out the other end ... but I don't think anyone wants to go there :)

[flamewarrior.livejournal.com]

D-: Hope cat and hair are both now fully recovered!

Re: Oh, wow! All the machinery's ganging up on me again! VYVYAN!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I am SO superior. I only signed up for one.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I was lucky, it was only a thin lock, it could have been as few as 50-100 strands!

Re: Oh, wow! All the machinery's ganging up on me again! VYVYAN!

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

Hmm? Which one? :)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

EW! Oh the roaming puke, one of the five wrongest things a cat can contribute to the household ... *Sends sympathy and paper towels!*

Re: Oh, wow! All the machinery's ganging up on me again! VYVYAN!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Travel fair, for I am weak. I am going to help Treacle with her Merlin fic, though, we have shared friends who we need to vent about!