Cat Ate Plastic Bag

Plastic bags that come from a grocery or other food store can carry the lingering scent and even taste of food which makes chewing them a pleasant experience.

Cat ate plastic bag.

Bring canvas bags with you when you go to the grocery store instead of using plastic store bags. Why would a cat eat those. That is how the average household cat ate plastic wrapper for most of the time. Keep any plastic bottles or containers on hand in the fridge or other inaccessible area.

He threw up most of it but still seems to have trouble keeping his food down and also is not defacating. Some cat cravings are easy to understand. It only started today. Different theories suggest why my cat ate a piece of plastic.

Switch to non plastic bags where possible. Possibly it is the crackling sound that plastic makes when chewed that cats. He seems perky and is drinking water and trying to eat. Many bags are also coated in substances such as cornstarch stearates salts of stearate acid or are made of animal by products such as gelatin which makes them attractive to cats.

I just came from the emergency animal hosp because my cat has been ill for the past 3 or 4 days. A bag of groceries can have a residual scent of food items placed inside so cats try to eat them. One of her beloved furry friends actually ate enough of a plastic bag to result in a midnight. The urge to eat nonfood items called pica can be pretty common in cats.

My cat ate part of a plastic bag. Considering the crackling sound that it makes chewing on the wrapper is a fine way to pass times. Hard plastic items can cause damage to sensitive mouth tissues when they are chewed. I am absolutely heart broken because we can not afford the outrageous medical bills to take care of the diagnostic or surgical part if that is what s needed to make him better.

Bioplastics are made from vegetable fats and oils and some animal by products and cats can pick up this scent. But plastic bags houseplants wool paper rubber bands. He loves to eat plastic bags so i try to keep them away from him but he found one in the basement. Strange things cats eat.

Has anyone heard of an obstruction. But for one of my friends keeping plastic out of her cats mouths is a matter of life and death. Plastic can be a choking or suffocation hazard too and plastic bags can be a strangulation danger. Vicki on july 22 2012.

Here are some things you can do if your cat licks chews on or eats plastic.