Don’t ever leave string/catcher toys out where your cat can reach them.

Don’t do the same stupid careless thing I did last night. Don’t get lazy and think it’s fine because it had been fine before. It was Da Bird toy. It came with warnings, I knew, and I got careless anyway after supervising them dragging it around to play with after a “catch”so often. It wound around a folding chair and my foster cat’s mouth while I was in my room. He was dead when I found him, 5:50 AM. I knew that and cpr was futile, vet was futile, I tried anyway. I can still smell him on my hands after cleaning everything up.

Don’t do it. Rest in peace Campanellino, you deserved better from me.

Edit: To be clear, it was asphyxiation from being strangled by the string. Wand toy, teaser toys, I don’t know what else to call them. He likely picked it up, rolled so that the string looped around his face and neck, dragged it under the chair, and then looped himself around the legs and cross-section of the chair. The toy end snagged on more string when he tried to drop it. The rod portion of the toy was bent and jammed in the chair and acted as a sort of windlass when he attempted to escape. The string was taut and wrapped haphazardly around the legs of the chair. The chair was toppled and the legs suspended.