{"id":2229,"date":"2013-06-25T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:02:14","slug":"the-most-surreal-thing-in-recent-memory-just-happened-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-most-surreal-thing-in-recent-memory-just-happened-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The most surreal thing in recent memory just happened to me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our cat Backup (<a href=\"http:\/\/veronicamars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Backup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">namesake<\/a>) has been puking a bit for the past few days, which worried us, because all we changed about his diet was trying some new pet food we got from a friend. We stopped giving it to him, but he kept puking, and he started to take his time eating his morning dry food, only eating his evening wet food regularly.<br \/>\nToday I came home and he had barely eaten any dry food, and there was some puke around (some on my <a href=\"http:\/\/swimp.bigcartel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swimp hoodie<\/a> \ud83d\ude41 ), but the cat seemed pretty calm, greeting me and sitting on me. Regardless, I called a pet hospital and decided to bring him over as a walk-in when Anna got home (I can&#8217;t drive, my hand&#8217;s still busted).<br \/>\nAbout half an hour later, Backup started to gag and puked up a bit on the floor. I came over to him and put my hand on his back, I felt him tense up, he gave out a low moan, and <strong style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">a gigantic clump of elastic hair ties shot out of his mouth<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThere must have been at least ten of them. It was ridiculous. I can&#8217;t believe something that enormous could fit in a cat&#8217;s stomach&#8230; makes sense why he was passing up his dry food. We knew he loved playing with Anna&#8217;s hair ties, but were completely unaware that he was swallowing them. They could have been in there for months. Doing a quick search, this might be kind of a common situation with cats.<br \/>\nSssoooo&#8230; I think we&#8217;re good now. The cat seems calm enough. I expect his appetite to return shortly. Problem&#8230; solved?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hairtiepuke-e1372211986840.jpg\">Bonus photo! Click here for a gruesome hair tie regurgitation bonanza!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cat Backup (namesake) has been puking a bit for the past few days, which worried us, because all we changed about his diet was trying some new pet food we got from a friend. We stopped giving it to him, but he kept puking, and he started to take his time eating his morning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-most-surreal-thing-in-recent-memory-just-happened-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The most surreal thing in recent memory just happened to me.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}