RE: My reminder why I don't buy cat toys! :)

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:49:25 -0800

I have the same experience with cat beds. The cuter and more expensive the cat bed, the more none of the cats would be caught dead in it. However, just let me put an empty box on the dining table--VOILA--instant cat bed. Or better yet, just let me buy the dog a bed. The jumbo, great dane sized dog bed gets stolen by the smallest cat and the poor dog ends up crammed up in a ball with his fanny hanging off the cute, expensive cat bed.

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How right you are Jen!  I've been putting off buying a fancy toy I saw
in Petsmart, because I've a strong feeling that taping one of those
metallic swirly flower things that you stick on gift packages on to a
Cat Charmer would be far more attractive to them. (A visiting friend did
that years ago, and my neg cats completely adored it! It lasted for
months and months, too)
I guess we should be thrilled there's actually one way in which we can
easily---and without guilt!--- save a few $$$..... Kerry
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So I'm at the store this morning when I spotted a small berber fleece
mouse in the pet section...now, I've gone off buying many cat toys for
reasons I'm sure you all share (an expensive cat toy will be sitting
untouched in the middle of the room, but in the meantime, a fight ensues
over one of my hair ties)...but I thought, "Hey, they've got a toy
similar to this one that I know at least a *few* of them will play
with!"  So I went for it...Well, I get home, get the toy out of the
package and toss it in front of one of the boys anticipating joy and
rapture...nothing...I finally had to roll it in catnip just to get one
of them moderately interested in it!  In the meantime, I open a bottle
of milk and toss the ring on the floor (knowing in the back of my mind
what would happen, but not willing to admit it just yet)...chaos ensues
as Sleepypants flits it across the room and 6 cats give chase!  I try
not to let on that I'm just the tiniest bit bitter...but just to add
insult to injury, Boots (who never plays with cat toys) pulls out the
*old* berber mouse and starts playing with it right in front of me!
Okay, okay...I get the point already!

Just thought I'd share my lesson from the cats this morning..."You don't
need to spend money to have a good time!"  :)

Jen


But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in all the world...
To you, I shall be unique in all the world...
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed...
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

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