@Tavicat by Rikki Simons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons for August 10, 2020

. . . NO, FARGO! What goes in, must come out! :’(

Dangerous move Fargo. Don’t leave string around for bad cats to get into.

With our domestic black panther, it’s strips of plastic such as those torn off the top of food packaging. I have had to risk my skin more than once wrestling to get a piece away from her before she could swallow it!

I crochet so I always have to be aware of the kitties when I am working on a project. More than once my yarn came up suddenly severed. Thankfully I have always been able to prevent ingestion of the yarn. Only once did we think we needed to rush to the vet. Our Chianti got hold of a spool of Christmas curling ribbon and we had no idea how much she ingested but it was coming out of her butt. Thankfully it was a small piece and the X-rays didn’t show any more so surgery was avoided. Christmas curling ribbon is banned in my house.

Our vet calls that “linear eating.”

Uh oh.

Between sewing, weaving, knitting, macrame, crochet, etc. – my house is a string-a-palooza. Our tabby-point Siamese thinks like Fargo, which means everything must be in zipped pouches, bags, totes, behind firmly closed doors, etc. The floor looms are in a large open area, so my weaving sessions tend to be all-day marathons if possible, to avoid leaving work on the loom. She’d rather eat the seedlings on the grow table than her cat grass – and chew the ends of my dried flax instead of her silvervine.

Needless to say, we’re another household which doesn’t do curling ribbon on presents.

I love the picture of Fargo in the first panel with his chin on his paws. :D

But no, Fargo. Eating yarn is very bad!

The absolute worst is dental floss…keep that well away from your cats.

There’s no yarn in our house, so our Vesta (Bast keep her!) went after blinds cords and shoelaces.