I had to put child locks on all drawers and cupboards. Then I kept finding pieces of bra strap in cat vomit. I was so confused that I kept turning it inside out looking for them, since it didn't make any sense. I'll never forget getting out my very best I.Magnin black lace teddy, an unusually extravagant gift to myself, from a closed drawer and realising that it no longer had straps. She also completely confounded me by eating my bra and camisole straps. She was an extremely neurotic cat and the very worst cat I've had to give sub-q fluids to - in fact it proved impossible to give them routinely. I was sure she would shred her insides from the fibreglass, let alone her lungs when she threw it up, but she lived to 17 and died of kidney failure. I was forever blocking off places and using a flashlight looking for tiny openings and bits of insulation sticking out of strange places, but she'd find places that I hadn't. Since I had a new house that wasn't as well built as it should have been, she was forever finding her way inside the chimney, under the bottom of built-in cupboards,etc. Shahdee had it and had a passion for fibreglass insulation among other things. Pica in cats is very worrying and frustrating. Somehow, nobody's ever been electrocuted or otherwise damaged in any way, although, like you say, they've destroyed TONS of stuff!! With mine, it's the mouthy ones, the ones that enjoy biting and licking stuff. *looks around to see if there's another human here* LOL, I thought I was the only one with such awful little monsters!! I have those that eat and/or shred cardboard, paper, plastic, and wires (no wood eaters at the moment). They are little monsters, but would not change them for the world, except perhaps the plastic and sellotape eating, as that does worry me. They have also destroyed a computor, a telephone, a mobile phone charger, a leather suite and 3 dining chairs. They also used shred the curtains a lot (still do occasionally), and Smokey is so strong he used to pull the curtain rails straight out through the plaster. As he is incapable of coughing up his own hairballs, he also has to have a laxative. As both her and her brother can open doors, nothing was sacred wherever you put it! Her brother sometimes eats fluff and licks the carpet. That was a nightmare as when she was a kitten, she used to climb up the backs of drawers and get into drawers from the back and eat photos and important documents. One of my cats eats elastic, rubber hoses, plastic carrier bags and her favourite, sellotape! She used to eat paper and cardboard, but seems to have gone off these. Maybe they are just nuts because they have such easy lives! 5 years old, unrelated, who licks the shower curtain, plastic grocery bags and garbage bags, and himself when you pet him. In addition to my pica cat, I have a second cat, neutered male, approx. I try to keep everything that she might eat out of reach, but she still seems to find things that I (or more often my husband) have overlooked. I haven't tried this yet, but she hasn't been vomiting lately. The vet said she may have given herself an ulcer and to give her 1/4 tablet of Tagamet. I have talked to the vet about it because she has recently had small amounts of blood in her vomit along with whatever she has eaten and thrown up. I have tried amitryptilene (Elavil) which caused her to hide under the chair and not come out (very unusual behavior for her) and fluoxitene (Prozac) which she promptly threw up every time I gave it to her. I have also had problems with her urinating in places other than the litter box (including on the vet and in the carrier on the way to the vet's to check for a uti). I don't know why she does this, other than she is neurotic. Occasionally she will eat foil wrappers and styrofoam. My 5 year old spayed female dsh eats plastic bags and wrappers and the shower curtain.
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