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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2067.0. "A note of caution!!" by FDCV03::JOHNSON () Thu Dec 15 1988 08:10

    Good morning everybody .. IMPORTANT!!
    
    Last night Cocoa was clawing at his mouth like something was
    caught.  I pulled out a hook (not the hook that holds the
    ball on the Christmas tree) that goes into the ball.  I almost
    died when I saw how these beautiful ornaments were made.  I
    keep imagining a small baby crawling around putting something
    like this into their mouth, leave alone our furfaces. 
    
    I guess if we want to let our babes play with Christmas balls
    we have to remove all the danger.  No kidding .. this hook
    looked like a whale harpoon .. very stiff.... and VERY dangerous.
    
    BJ
    
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2067.1hook addendumFDCV03::JOHNSONThu Dec 15 1988 08:133
    I neglected to add that this hook came out of the velvet balls.
    The regular balls don't have these.
    
2067.2Danger!CRUISE::NDCThu Dec 15 1988 09:104
    POOR COCOA!!!!!!!!!!!
      Is he ok?
        Thanks for the warning.
            N
2067.3CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Thu Dec 15 1988 14:264
    You might watch out in case the place in his mouth gets infected.
     Maybe a phone call to the vet to ask if he should be on preventative
    antibiotics for awhile?
    
2067.4Cocoa's OK!FDCV16::JOHNSONFri Dec 16 1988 07:3811
    It seemed to ONLY be caught in his teeth.  Seems ok.  He let
    me look and I saw no blood or red spot.  I took 5 of the velvet
    balls that were near the bottom of the tree and pulled out all
    hooks, layed them on the lower branches so he'd still feel he
    was doing something bad.  
    
    Got to stay one step ahead of him.  This year we didn't use any
    tinsel.  Good idea, I guess, since reading other notes.
    
    Bj