HELP, accidentally got something stuck in toilet
Hi Reddit!, idk what my reddit username is because im not in situations like this very often where I need the internet's help
So basically what happened is i have this smart little bastard of a cat (her name is Violet) who wandered downstairs while I was doing some troubleshooting with the toilet and was confused why it was making a weird sound when it flushed, so I opened the lid to find the mermaid thing (pretty sure it made of soft plastic or something) near the flusher *the thing that lifts when you flush it), so I left the toilet bowel open for a few minutes to grab a flashlight and see if anything was stuck, and when I came back my cat had been swatting the mermaid enough to get it to go perfectly down the hole of the flusher and went perfectly vertical and is now stuck like this
I've been trying to pull it out with my hand for 30 minutes and it won't come back up, oh also dont worry about the water the little white thing can just be pulled up and it will stop the water from filling up the tank, anyways the toilet still works perfectly fine besides a slightly weirder noise, should I leave it in there and just pray to the duct tape gods that this won't screw me over?
Image 1 is the mermaid thing, image 2 is the culprit