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Grandma Edie Kept Knitting. She Had No Idea Where the Rest of the Yarn Went.

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Grandma Edie's knitting is coming along nicely, a neat cream panel growing on her needles. Miso's afternoon is going less smoothly. The Siamese has rolled onto her back on the sofa cushion beside Edie, and somehow she is now wrapped in an impressive web of yarn, loops draped over her paws, chest, and belly. She looks straight up with wide blue eyes and an open mouth, as if she is about to complain loudly, which Siamese cats are very good at. Edie, glasses pushed up into her white curls, keeps her eyes on her stitches. A mug, a basket of yarn balls, and a potted plant sit on the table by the sunny window.

Yarn looks like a perfect cat toy, but it can be dangerous. If a cat swallows string, yarn, or thread, it can cause a serious intestinal blockage known as a linear foreign body, which often needs emergency surgery. The barbs on a cat's tongue face backward, which makes it hard for cats to spit string out once they start chewing it. Store yarn in a closed bag or lidded basket, never leave cats alone with string toys, and use wand toys under supervision instead. If you suspect your cat has swallowed yarn, do not pull on any visible strand; call your vet right away.

Miso will be freed in a moment, with plenty of sympathy and maybe a treat for her trouble. And Edie will probably find a stray loop of yarn in the couch cushions for weeks to come.

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