Is your home Cat proof?

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One day my wife and I went to the mall to get a smoothie. Afterwards we visited the pet store. There was this little kitten in the corner by it's self and my wife fell in love with it. It was a full blooded registered Tabby Persian. We already had one cat and thought this would be a play mate for it. We took it home and named it Dusty. It just played and played. Then about a week later, it started gagging one morning. I took it to the vet's and He told me it had no fever and to bring it back tomorrow if it didn't get better. I drove home upset and the more I thought about it, the madder I got. I knew there was something wrong with this kitten. I called the vet back and asked for a different vet. I told her I had been in and was not happy with my visit. She said for me to bring her right in, chances were the kitten had an abstruction. She ran an X-ray, then did a barium test showing an abstruction. She operated immediately. She said it did have a high fever and probably would not have lasted the night. She pulled from it's intestant a large ball of cotton. The vet said for us to go home and see if we could find where it came from. After hours of searching, we found the problem. It was the backside of our table cloth. Who would have thought. We went around and tried to cat proof our home. We thought we had our home cat proofed by picking up anything the cats could swallow. Boy were we surprised to see our other cat with the same symptoms. We rushed her to the vet's and she also was operated on. She had eaten her wicker bed and a piece of wood had tore a hole in her intestant and became infected. Obviously we through the bed out. But who would have thought two every day items could hurt your cat.