Upscale wrote:
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Me too. The vet told me to keep my Shepherd from eating wood of any
type as a splinter can get caught in the windpipe, and that as they
say, will be that.

Better wood than my cat who loves to chew on wires. Haven't been able to
wean her off of them, (at least not so far) so I've gotten into the habit of
occasionally tossing one of her favourite wires to play with ~ a coiled
telephone handset wire. On the mornings when she doesn't wake me up with her
mewing at my bedroom door, I often come out of my room sniffing the air for
cooked cat hair.

Rabitts (who are more closely related to cats than to rodents, BTW)
are notoriously fond of chewing on electrical cords. If you ask at
a pet store they may have something you can put on the cord
to discourage that.

My cat was fond of swallowing string. She came up to me once with
about 4 inches of string hanging out of her mouth. I pulled and pulled
and about two feet came out. She was a bit upset about the last 6
inches.

Then there was the time she passed a shoelace. Those weren't link
sausages.

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