Cookie Cat had to go to the vet for eating ribbons

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3. When I first adopted my feral tomcat, he ate some dental floss out of the garbage can. It came out partly in his poop...

.... and partly still in his guts, with the end dangling out his butthole. He was not domesticated, so I couldn't catch him to cut the string. He was running around with a couple of feet of string and some entangled poops trailing behind him, and the more he ran the more he was spreading it around the house. I was afraid he might get the string caught on something that pulled it tight and injure his colon/rectum, so I decided it was safest to wait it out, even though I was so anxious for the string to come loose and couldn't do anything about it while I waited. Eventually, he showed up in the morning stringless and seemingly unharmed. A few days later I found the string (and other stuff) under a table in the downstairs workroom. I was a nervous wreck for two days, unable to catch him, and unable to know what was going to happen. Fortunately it all worked its way out.

We've had five cats previously, and none ever did anything like that. He also like to eat my hair sometimes. It shows up in the litter box.