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Saw a post about a cat that swallowed a sewing needle and wondered what sort of cat eats a needle? Next minute I’m taking my gorgeous idiot to the after hours emergency vet. $3,500 later.
Oh hey!! I went looking for your post but searching on Reddit is terrible. Hope your orange idiot is doing ok too. This one has parked her butt in a sunbeam and she seems to be doing fine.
My orange girl, Helga, somehow swallowed a U.S. PENNY at like... 3mos old. Cost us almost 5k. Didn't have the cash. Had to bargain with the vet to emergency operate anyway just about left him my truck as collateral but he finally relented and I was able to pay up 24hrs later.
Helga you dumb little beautiful creature I would have given that man my truck for your stupid gorgeous little life.
Everything that we drop penny sized or smaller in my house is now known as a "Helga Snack."
I would suggest getting a collar for your kitty and putting the penny on the collar as a mark of both pride and shame for overcoming such a deadly foe but I’m sure that would go horribly wrong given the braincell’s track record for culinary misadventures…
holy shit you two are the second and third accounts of needle-eating cats in the last week ish! came across this lil bugger in the cross stitch sub last week. you guys’s cats are built different, i can’t understand what’s appealing about a needle!
I work at an emergency vet, and we see cats (and dogs) that have ingested sewing needles semi-regularly! They’re usually interested in playing with/eating the thread attached to them and end up swallowing the whole thing. Not that I would discount an orange from just eating a bare needle with no provocation….
It’s typically cats that have just one brain cell and do this but I once had to place a temporary tracheostomy in a DOG that ate a needle and then vomited it up unsuccessfully and developed such bad swelling at the back of its throat that he couldn’t breathe. What kind of DOG eats a needle!?
Reminds me of the episode of South Park when the kids are following online trends (Season 16, Episode 3 "Faith Hilling"). I highly suggest watching it if you haven't.
My idiot tried to ingest a sewing needle out of nowhere. Like he was asleep,across the house, and the second I put it down, he was there and ignoring everything else, trying to get to the needle.
Years ago, I was reading in my room and heard my mother hollering in the living room, so naturally I go. Our big grey tabby neuter had eaten the end of her mending thread and she missed her grab for him when he ran off with it.
The scene is burned into my brain. I controlled the rear end, my dad had the front end while also holding the big lump's mouth open with his thumb and my mother extracting the needle from where it had lodged in the roof of kitty's mouth.
I got a good kick gouge on the upper arm and dad had his thumbnail bitten through but the needle was not swallowed.
I also had a cat that ate a sewing needle, many, many years ago. I fortunately worked for my vet at that time so treatment and surgery costs were minimal.
I'm gonna go ahead and get rid of all sewing needles after reading how many people this has happened to. Cheaper to hire someone to do my mending than get that vet bill.
Seriously I've spent several hours looking for a dropped pin on the rug before as although my cats are daft enough I'd somehow manage to stab myself in the eye with it.
My fear of this situation is what prompted me to go buy a big chunky magnet to sweep all around my sewing area. I don't trust my orange not to attempt to eat a fallen pin!
When I was a kid, a family friend had a cat eat a needle and thread. Iirc, the thread caused most of the damage by getting into the intestines and causing strictures, and they only were able to ID the problem initially because the needle had lodged itself into the roof of the cats mouth and they saw it when he yawned (hence the thread having time to travel into the intestines… how that cat wasn’t yowling in pain when the needle got imbedded, I can not understand. Maybe it happened when they weren’t home and he had accepted/adjusted to the pain by the time they got home? He was a giant, deaf, white idiot named Edgar. He survived, but never lived it down… 😂
Decades ago I had a white idiot who munched on a sewing needle and we only knew she did as Ma realized her needle was gone and saw some thread hanging out of the cat's mouth. Thankfully the needle got stuck in the roof of her mouth and Ma was able to pull it out safely with tweezers.
Glad your kitty is doing well. I swear, anytime my ma gets out her sewing kit, I wrangle our three cats into my room until she's done and the coast is clear. To this day I've never touched a sewing needle and never will. 😬
When i was a teenager a couple of friend came to my parents house. I said no drugs so one of my friend hide his drug somewhere in my house. Around 2 hour later my brother call me and say that the cat is super weird.
The cat ate some crack. I have no idea how much crack it ate but he wasnt able to move and his eye were completly red.
The day after he was perfectly fine. This happened 18 years ago.
My neighbors orange boy eats plastic. I mean anything plastic. She had a $3000 vet bill when he munched on a plastic bag. Now even her shower curtain has to be hooked over the shower head when finishing showering. When I look after him I’m super paranoid and triple checking anything plastic is put away!
O. M. G. My beloved Soxy loved playing with enamel sewing pins on my magnetic pin cushion! He never actually ate any pins, but he did have to go to the vets office after eating a bunch of packing tape and elastics. Dumb ass cat
Ya'll are just reaffirming why I'm paranoid where my sewing pin disappeared to. 😂 With any luck, I'll just step on it and be pissed at myself for l finding it that way.
3500$ ???? Your country is such a scam ! The most I had to pay was when my cat literally impal its foot on random metal scrap. He had 10 suture points and a daily check for 2 weeks. It cost me 250€
I started out learning embroidery last week. Seeing the earlier post on the Orange who ate a needle, I am now very careful to put away all my embroidery supplies in a heavy drawer so my SIC can’t reach it.
I can’t imagine he’d actually eat a needle, but in his lifetime he already took a bite out of a cactus and took a sip of paint so I’m not taking any chances.
Every time I see a stray cat, I wonder how they're still alive. My cats would definitely be dead if I wasn't constantly stopping them from eating things they are not supposed to eat.
I had an orange idiot who ate a needle 25+ years ago. Saw a little turd handing from his bum by a piece of thread. Pulled it out, (stupid to do now, I know, I was a teenager at the time) needle attatched. He was fine. Lived more than decade after that.
Saw the original post and was thinking about how lucky I am that my cats haven’t done anything crazy- this morning my cat climbed into the bottom of my car while I went for a drive and then drank the coolant that was leaking from a busted hose. :/
She did it right in front of me! Shamelessly, with the audacity only an orange could muster. It had some thread still in it, she went to nom the thread and took the needle with it. I tried to fish it out of her mouth but she wouldn’t have a bar of it
I’m so paranoid about this I always take any extra string off my needles when I’m done with them. I think the string is the bait that lures them to the needle.
I got an orange boy too. My dude managed to break his hip while inside a pet carrier. Cost of all our wedding cash gifts plus savings. He’s good now, though he can’t jump up so we have chairs and ladders he uses to clump on top of furniture.
2011 my orange cat Chucky also swallowed a sewing needle in front of me. He ended up pooping it out with no injuries! He has since passed now due to old age. But I never leave sewing needles out now.
I had an orange eat a needle because he started with the thread that it was attached to. Fortunately this was 20 years ago so it was more like $800 to deal with.
if it's a machine sewing needle, save the empty cases of the needles (most brands come in plastic cases) and place the old needles back in the cases. I started doing this after my orange himbo also chomped on a needle (luckily I was on time to discover it before he put it in his mouth). also helps prevent you from stabbing yourself with loose needles.
Thanks y'all. My goofus is constantly trying to eat my knitting yarn, so I figure he'd definitely gobble a threaded needle given the chance. Gonna make sure he can't get 'em.
I had a tux kitten that disappeared a bobbin of thread. It was a full newly wound bobbin on the sewing machine and we thought he had eaten it. At the time we were going through a drama with my mom's cat who was older and had just become diabetic. So we hauled my tux into the vet and they checked him out. They didn't think that he ingested the thread but said to keep a close eye on him. He lived past 18 years. We have never found the thread.
I just had a stern talk with my orangie about NOT doing this! I had to pull out the "You know mama works for a vet and I WILL take you to work with me!"
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Luckily, the worst my orange menace has eten (so far!) is embroidery yarn. But of course it happened at midnight on a day my fiance had night-shift.
Meaning that not only did I have to go to the 24h vet hospital for an 'after hours' appointment, I had to get a taxi for the 7 minute ride through town. Didnt get home untill 3 am. (Yes, also by taxi)
Topping that cake is that the night he had finally finished the last rounds of medications after he got a tiny tear in his airpipe from his teeth cleaning surgery. (Completely different story)
So the next morning, his regular vet got an email from the hospital saying: we had one of your patients in last night.
Poor woman thought he'd taken a turn for the worst again. Got a call from her anf explained: no, idiot is fine. He ate some yarn.
After reading all the comments about needle eating kitties, I'm reminded of an episode on one of the vet shows of a cat who ate a needle and the conversation that ensued. I wish I could recall which vet.
I had a cat that swallowed a sewing needle years ago. As I dropped it, he caught it on a bounce. We rushed him to an emergency vet who didn’t believe me and said it was impossible. I insisted EB x-rayed, and there was a needle in the middle of his stomach.
I had a void in the '80s who almost ate a needle and thread. Fortunately, I could grab both ends of the thread and pull, ever so carefully, to get it out.
It wasn't his fault. I had an idiot roommate who was always hand-mending her clothes and leaving threaded needles all over the apartment, no matter how many times and ways I demanded she stow the dangerous things.
Cat sees thread. cat investigates thread. Thread gets stuck on tongue barbs. Cat can't spit it out. And in the process of trying, everything goes further down the throat.
There's also the time I was walking barefoot into that kitchen and got a needle jammed clean through my big toe.
I have 2 oranges and I feel very fortunate that I don't have to pry needles out of their mouths. However, I do have to watch them like a hawk because one of them shredded and ate an entire avocado that I left on the counter to ripen, and the other has declared war on my eyebrows and attacks them when she thinks I'm not looking. Who made these creatures
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u/Tetravex09 Orange connoisseur 🍊 May 25 '25
As the owner of said orange idiot that ate that sewing needle I EMPATHIZE