Plastic Bags Are Hazardous To Pets
It is common sense I suppose, but seeing one of my little rascals in this bag prompted me to write this reminder. Plastic bags are hazardous to pets just as they are for children. The risk of suffocation is obvious. Suffocation can happen so quickly. In addition, animals are fond of swallowing any number of items. I once did surgery to remove a diamond ring from a cat's stomach. At least that owner had a profit on the procedure! I also had a dog swallow six pairs of surgical gloves used by the owner on his ostomy bag. One of our cats loves to stand at my husband's feet when he takes the plastic wrappers off the dry cleaned shirts. Now we keep him out of the room. This cat can not help himself from lunging headfirst into the pile of bags like we did as kids in Minnesota when the fall leaves were raked into a huge mound.
Another hazard of those plastic grocery bags...cats can get the handle of the bag wrapped around their necks, or get their bodies stuck in the handle part. I've had both happen to both adult and kittens.
Luckily, nobody died, but it can really freak them out when they can't get free of the bag and that can cause them to panic, which makes it difficult to 1., catch them and 2., free them from the bag.
Since I use those bags for cleaning my litter boxes, I put them in a closed container as soon as I empty them of groceries so the cats can't get into them.
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I also have to watch my semi-feral kitties, because having learned to scavenge as kittens, they look at everything as potential food. One day my husband saw a white thread hanging out of the one cat's backside, so I gave it a bit of a tug and the rest came out easily - it turned out to be a piece of dental floss that must somehow have landed on the bathroom floor! The cat looked most affronted!
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