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A silver-haired grandma in glasses knits on a sofa while a white cat lies beside her tangled in loops of cream yarn. 28 / 34

Dottie Kept Knitting and Didn't Look Down. Pearl Was Busy With the Yarn.

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Lamps glow warmly across the living room, lighting up a framed botanical print, a stack of books, and a plant on the shelf. Dottie sits on the sofa in her soft cardigan, glasses on and silver hair pinned up, needles clicking steadily as a cream-colored piece takes shape in her hands. She keeps her eyes on her stitches, perhaps deliberately. Beside her, Pearl has gotten herself into a magnificent mess. The white cat lies on her back amid three balls of yarn, wrapped in loops and strands from her paws to her tail, gazing up with a look of complete innocence.

It's a classic picture, but yarn is genuinely one of the riskier things a cat can play with. Cats' tongues have tiny backward-facing barbs, which makes it hard for them to spit out string once they start chewing it. Swallowed yarn, thread, or ribbon can cause a dangerous intestinal blockage that often needs emergency surgery. The safest approach is to supervise any play with yarn, wind up and put away skeins after knitting, and offer cat-safe wand toys for chasing instead. If you ever see yarn hanging from your cat's mouth or rear end, don't pull it; call your vet right away.

Dottie will need a few patient minutes to untangle her helper. Pearl, meanwhile, seems entirely convinced she's been assisting with the project all along.

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