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Another Persia story: Persia & the Milk Jug Ring
This has got to be one of the cheapest improvisational cat toys around.
The milk jug ring. It didn't take but a split second of my tossing it on the floor before Persia was batting it all over the place. She played with it over the course of a couple of days and I'd toss it for her, too. Eventually she batted it under a small bookcase in the living room with a sort of scrolled skirt at the bottom. (IOW, my hand won't fit under there.) The milk jug ring was promptly forgotten. Or so I thought... Fast foward a couple of years. Persia knew it was there. One day she decided it was time to play with it again. She fished the milk jug ring out from under the bookcase. I was sitting here at my desk when I saw her playing with it. I couldn't help but laugh. *I'm* the only one who had forgotten the milk jug ring was under the bookcase. My hand won't fit but her paws did. Jill |
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Another Persia story: Persia & the Milk Jug Ring
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... This has got to be one of the cheapest improvisational cat toys around. The milk jug ring. It didn't take but a split second of my tossing it on the floor before Persia was batting it all over the place. She played with it over the course of a couple of days and I'd toss it for her, too. Eventually she batted it under a small bookcase in the living room with a sort of scrolled skirt at the bottom. (IOW, my hand won't fit under there.) The milk jug ring was promptly forgotten. Or so I thought... Fast foward a couple of years. Persia knew it was there. One day she decided it was time to play with it again. She fished the milk jug ring out from under the bookcase. I was sitting here at my desk when I saw her playing with it. I couldn't help but laugh. *I'm* the only one who had forgotten the milk jug ring was under the bookcase. My hand won't fit but her paws did. Jill I always wished that my cats would play with things that most of the rpca cats seemed to. Neither of them ever did. When I was fairly newbie cat owner, empty boxes were very popular with cats on here so I got one and put it in my living room expecting them both to jump in and out of it. Both said "what's that thing in the way? get it out of here" Neither of them played and Boyfie just gives me a strange look if I try to encourage him to do so. Like "what the.? are you doing, are you mad or something?" KFC was immune to catnip and it only has a slight effect on Boyfie. Maybe their previous lives as "cats divorced from their previous owners" made them take things more seriously. Or maybe as they both hunted that was enough to not need to play? I don't know. I would describe Boyfie as "earnest" he worries. I'd really like him to enjoy himself with a catnip spree or playing with all the things I bought him, any toy I bought, he ignores: which is not to say he isn't happy here, he is. Very much so. Tweed |
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Another Persia story: Persia & the Milk Jug Ring
On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:44:31 PM UTC-4, Christina Websell wrote:
I always wished that my cats would play with things that most of the rpca cats seemed to. Neither of them ever did. When I was fairly newbie cat owner, empty boxes were very popular with cats on here so I got one and put it in my living room expecting them both to jump in and out of it. Both said "what's that thing in the way? get it out of here" Neither of them played and Boyfie just gives me a strange look if I try to encourage him to do so. Like "what the.? are you doing, are you mad or something?" KFC was immune to catnip and it only has a slight effect on Boyfie. Maybe their previous lives as "cats divorced from their previous owners" made them take things more seriously. Or maybe as they both hunted that was enough to not need to play? I don't know. I would describe Boyfie as "earnest" he worries. I'd really like him to enjoy himself with a catnip spree or playing with all the things I bought him, any toy I bought, he ignores: which is not to say he isn't happy here, he is. Very much so. Tweed Rita's not a box cat either. I put a box down for her the other day, and she climbed in it, then looked around as if to say, 'Now what?', then she climbed back out and jumped on the couch and settled down on her blanket. Oh well. At least she settles down on her blanket now when I set it up on the sewing/work-from-home table when I'm working, so she's not climbing all over the laptop when I'm trying to work now. She does love catnip, but she's a quiet drunk. She just cuddles the toy and licks it soggy, then lays there dazed. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita |
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Another Persia story: Persia & the Milk Jug Ring
On 9/5/2014 8:55 AM, Jane wrote:
Rita's not a box cat either. I put a box down for her the other day, and she climbed in it, then looked around as if to say, 'Now what?', then she climbed back out and jumped on the couch and settled down on her blanket. Oh well. At least she settles down on her blanket now when I set it up on the sewing/work-from-home table when I'm working, so she's not climbing all over the laptop when I'm trying to work now. She does love catnip, but she's a quiet drunk. She just cuddles the toy and licks it soggy, then lays there dazed. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita Persia loved da nip! She had a little plush toy with a velcro closure and I'd fill it with dried catnip. She, too, was a quiet drunk. She'd lick that toy to pieces and then nap with her head right next to it, if not on it. She also liked boxes but I think it was more that she was checking to make sure there wasn't something in them for her. She also could not resist sticking her head into the grocery bags I brought into the house. Jill |
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Another Persia story: Persia & the Milk Jug Ring
"Judith Latham" wrote in message ... In article , jmcquown wrote: On 9/5/2014 8:55 AM, Jane wrote: Rita's not a box cat either. I put a box down for her the other day, and she climbed in it, then looked around as if to say, 'Now what?', then she climbed back out and jumped on the couch and settled down on her blanket. Oh well. At least she settles down on her blanket now when I set it up on the sewing/work-from-home table when I'm working, so she's not climbing all over the laptop when I'm trying to work now. She does love catnip, but she's a quiet drunk. She just cuddles the toy and licks it soggy, then lays there dazed. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita Persia loved da nip! She had a little plush toy with a velcro closure and I'd fill it with dried catnip. She, too, was a quiet drunk. She'd lick that toy to pieces and then nap with her head right next to it, if not on it. She also liked boxes but I think it was more that she was checking to make sure there wasn't something in them for her. She also could not resist sticking her head into the grocery bags I brought into the house. Jill Sootie likes Nip. I put it on a dark blue towel on the siting-room carpet (the carpet is pink and the nip was beginning to colour it). She loves to roll in the nip and rub her head in it. It doesn't seem to affect her much except that she get a little over excited if you give her some skritches. Judith You could try putting it in a old sock and tying the top. That's what I used to do but it had to be really fresh to have any effect on Boyfie. Like Sootie, he would roll on the sock and rub his head on it, with a little bit of drooling if it was premium stuff, then he would fall asleep with a goofy look on his face. Getting overexcited is not him. Maybe I should grow some on my veggie plot which is down in the village so I can pick it fresh. I don't want to grow it in my garden at home for 2 reasons. 1. It would attract the neighbourhood cats and I don't want any more fights 2. He might not want to come in preferring to spend his time lolling amongst the catnip ;-) There's a look-alike Boyfie-cat that spends a lot of time on my veggie plot. It used to run away when I arrived, but recently she allowed me to pet her, she has a collar on and is in good condition, and I saw her washing herself on the path of the bungalow nearby so I think she lives there. But my veggie plot is 1/3rd acre of peace for a cat in a fairly built up area, quite a lot of it overgrown with a chance for hunting so I guess she likes to chill out there. Next time I saw her, she ran off having said hello once she thought that was enough. Indeed it was because I had thought she might be feral as I'd had feral kittens born there once. I found them just after their eyes opened and also trapped the mother, all ended well. They were reunited at a shelter where the mum reared her kittens, was spayed and returned, and all the kitten found good homes. So this was not the case with the-cat-that-looks- like Boyfriend. She just likes being there on the plot (as I do). It's very peaceful. And if I grow catnip there, even more so for her.. Tweed Judith Latham Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK. |
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