Cat ate 38 hair ties and survived

NEWS AND COMMENT: As reported in The State, a cat was abandoned with other cats by their owner when they moved away. And this particular cat was very ill. She was brought to an animal shelter run by the Charleston Animal Society. It is located about 9 miles north-west of Charleston and is a No-kill shelter with a hospital which cares for around 20,000 animals annually. Sick cat after operation to remove 38 hair ties from her stomach. Image: Charleston Animal Society from video (screenshot). This cat was therefore fortunate to end up at this shelter where she stopped eating. They x-rayed her and found a massive blockage in her stomach. Her stomach was completely full of ties. A domestic cat's stomach is quite small at about the size of a ping pong ball I am told . How do you get 38 hair ties inside a stomach that size!? It must stretch a lot. The blockage constituted 38 hair ties which she had obviously eaten as if they were edible foods when in the ownership of the people who aband