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Dave, you sure do have some strange cats! over the years we have had quite a few cats but always rescued moggies rather than pedigree or rare breeds, Our neighbour has a Bengal and two others that sometimes comes round, when they go on holiday we feed them but we have never heard of them eating anything weird.

Aluminium caused a minor infection on my leg, I was out walking and something was constantly sticking in the side of my leg below the knee, I searched, shook my leg etc but could find nothing and by the time I got home there was a big purple blotch. I removed my trousers and finally found a tiny coiled up piece of aluminium swarf embedded in the material,

I think your vet was wrong to presume aluminium was soft as it clearly caused damage to my leg, the mark is still partly visible after 6 weeks so please be careful of your cat eating it

Vic

The Vets take on the aluminium swarf was that it was relatively soft and generally without sharp edges, once inside the gut apparently the gut lining would distend and allow the passage of the swarf, I bow to his superior knowledge he is very experienced and frequently travels overseas to teach other vets so I presume he knows what he is talking about. In respect of our four cats we have two White Turkish Angoras, (Brother and Sister rescue cats) The Abyssinian and a Siamese. Many years ago I used to work as a Judges Steward at Championship Cat Shows so got to handle all sorts of different breeds of cats, suffice to say that I prefer cats to people. Our house is never without resident cats. Dave W

The shape and quantity of swarf would be the limiting factors. Fortunately, most sensible sized stuff does transit. Many will remember the days of cotton-wool sandwiches when someone inadvertently swallowed glass chips from free school milk bottle rims. I've force-fed small pledgets of milk soaked cotton wool to cats who have swallowed sharp looking metal objects to help parcel them up and push them through. Caution with long items.. string or thread on sewing needles or Christmas tinsels, which can all lead to 'linear foreign body syndrome' where the peristaltic action of the gut bunches itself up and goes necrotic on the folds.

pgk

PGK

Thanks for your posting , your explanation was more or less the same as our Vets, the aluminium swarf that our cat decided to eat was in small spirals about an inch long, I showed a sample to our vet hence his explanation. Dave W