Happy New Year and vomiting cats!

Happy New Year to you all!...
It has been so busy at work since Christmas that I've been running around like a headless chicken!
Lots of dogs and cats with colds and lots of vomiting too- just like us at this time of year I suppose!
In the two weeks since Christmas I have had to remove 'foreign bodies' from the intestines of two cats. This condition is much more commonly seen in dogs because they are much more likely, compared to cats, to eat everything in sight.
The first cat is called Boris and he had swallowed some string which had been used to tie up the Christmas cards for decoration. Of course he had been playing with the string but he was silly enough to actually eat it too- cats have no sense when it comes to this! Swallowing string is a disaster because it causes the intestine to 'consitina' on itself. It took me two hours and multiple intestinal incisions to fix him! Fortunately he's all healed and back to normal now... hopefully his owners have learnt NOT to leave string about for him to play with.
The second cat is called George and he had the foot from a doll stuck in his intestine! I have never seen a cat eat part of a child's toy before but there's always a first for everything! George isn't out of the woods yet but was healing well when I left work yesterday.
Hopefully next week will be a bit calmer....
Any way have fun!
May 2009 bring success, joy and love your way......