I'm worried about my cat. Yesterday morning he had picked up a toothpick by my chair. One that I had chewed both ends of (so I think it was soft at both ends, at least not totally spear-like) and didn't realize was laying around, but had gotten swept up in other crap. I see him pick the thing up and I dart my hand out to snatch it away, and I swear it looked like it disappeared down his gullet and he smacked his lips. I wrested his jaws open, but it's not like you can induce vomiting in a cat. I called up the emergency vet and it was basically suggested that there's nothing you can do at all except surgery if the cat gets sick.
Then, I find a toothpick on the floor right nearby, similar (chewed at ends), but I couldn't tell if it was the same toothpick or not. You ever have one of those situations where you think you see something go one direction, but it went somewhere else? Especially when you're agitated and it's a tiny object being dropped. So now I'm not even sure that he ate it, as opposed to him having dropped it and me not noticing.
He made poop last night around midnight, but it seemed like less (nuggets, thinner, less frequent trips), and he's been eating a fair bit. I wish he'd poop more so I could be sure. Toothpicks kill in two ways (happens to humans), they embed themselves in the gut and cause pain and poisoning, or they block the gut and cause bowel obstruction.
