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sriddles@aol.com - 15 Oct 2006 23:18 GMT

I hardly ever post news items, but I did read one today and I thought
maybe should be passed along. I won't repost the whole thing, but the
gist was this:

That "fake spiderweb" stuff that you use to decorate for Halloween
apparently is extremely dangerous to cats. A woman's cat died after
ingesting it, not because of toxicity, but because it got hung up in
the cat's intestines.

Anyway, that was a new one for me. I'd never heard of such a thing
happening before.

Sherry

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David Stevenson - 16 Oct 2006 00:10 GMT

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>I hardly ever post news items, but I did read one today and I thought
>maybe should be passed along. I won't repost the whole thing, but the
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>Anyway, that was a new one for me. I'd never heard of such a thing
>happening before.

Well, I have no idea what you mean by fake spiderweb, and we don't
decorate for Halloween. But I have seen a lot of stories over the years
here where cats have suffered from eating things that are long and thin,
such as rubber bands, Xmas tree tinsel, string, and the like.

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sriddles@aol.com - 16 Oct 2006 01:11 GMT

> wrote
> >I hardly ever post news items, but I did read one today and I thought
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> David Stevenson

Oh, it's a synthetic stuff that you string around and it looks like
spiderwebs, or really, more like cobwebs. I see a lot of people
decorate their front porch area with it. That's mostly the reason I
thought it was worth passing along; sometimes even the most
compassionate people just don't realize the stuff is dangerous to cats,
and I can see it really being attractive to maybe a roaming
neighborhood kitty.
We don't decorate for Halloween either really, but I do put a pumpkin &
fall chrystanthemums out on the porch every year. I have enough real
cobwebs in the house without buying fake ones, LOL.

Sherry

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Joy - 16 Oct 2006 01:15 GMT

>> wrote
>> >I hardly ever post news items, but I did read one today and I thought
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> Sherry

Sherry, it may not be available in England, where David lives.

Joy

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