Mookie also had an obstruction a few years back. He was a healthy 9-months old, and one Friday got ahold of a rubber baby nipple I had tied onto a string for a (supervised) play toy, stashed it in the cage, and ate some of it overnight. Next night he started barfing. It being Saturday night, and me with no car and the only emergency vet clinic miles away, we spent a very bad Sunday, with him gagging and sleeping all day. Monday moring I took him in, and he got X-rayed, bariumed, all that. I couldn't afford the surgery for him, so the vet suggested maybe it would pass, but it looked pretty bad, but after 3 days in the clinic with no result I took him home. He still wasn't eating, not even Ferretone. Completely listless, all he would do is lie on the couch and sleep restlessly. There was mushy Iams, Nutripet (I think it's the same as Nutrical in Canada), ferretone-laced baby food, everything I'd tried all over the place in little dishes. Then one evening (I think it was the next Friday) I went to a baseball game (the Blue Jays were good back then...) and when I got home, all the food dishes were empty, and there was one great big turd in the litter box, and Mookie was bombing around the house, dooking and running into walls. He hasn't stopped eating since, and last vet visit he hit the scales at 2.1 kg (just under 5 lb.) Stan Terrie & Jen, Mookie, Psycho, Cecil & Cocoa in Toronto [Posted in FML issue 1243]