My poor Kabuki!
Silly cat likes to rub herself all over my shoes.
Never thought much of it, except when she gets too excited and starts biting and clawing the leather.
Anyway, last night, she ran afoul of a sandal of mine that has a myriad of slender straps. In rubbing her face against it, the straps snarled in her cat collar. The more she struggled to get it off, the tighter it drew around her neck. I have the most giving of collars on these cats - it's stretchy cord that people use to string beads on. But it didn't give. I was awoken in the wee hours by Kabuki stumbling to my bed and making several attempts to jump up on my mattress, falling down twice, with this sandal snarled around her neck.
She'd come to me for help in getting it off.
I rapidly realized what the matter was and grabbed her. The straps twisted harder and she started to panic, but I grabbed her nape and she held still long enough for me to pull it off.
She is fine.
Whew! Ladies and gents, moral of the story, I'm putting away any shoe with extra straps on it.