Two cat neck stories...
I had a crush on a girl in first grade that lived down the street from me. I used to go over an play at her house after school. She had a cat that had recently had a litter of kittens. The kittens were probably about a month or so old and we were playing with them outside. While I was holding one, I noticed what looked like a small puncture wound on its neck. I thought that the cat had been bitten by a dog or something. We showed the cat to her father so that he could take it to the vet and get it looked at. However when we looked at the wound again with her father, it looked like it was pulsing inside the hole. He reached into the hole with a pair of tweezers and pulled out a large maggot. The best we can figure is that some kind of fly laid an egg on the kitten's neck and the maggot that hatched was eating its way in.
My highschool girlfriend had a cat that must have swallowed a piece of thread... that was attached to a small sewing needle. She was petting the cat and got stabbed by something sharp on its neck. After the initial shock wore off, we realized that it was a needle that must have jammed sideways in the cat's throat and pushed through its neck. We managed to get a grip on the point that was sticking through its skin and pulled it out of the cat's neck followed by a long piece of thread that I'm sure was well into the cat's stomach and beyond.
Both cats recovered and lived normal lives.
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