The New Toy!

Kitties!

Salem here.

Mommy made us a new lure for the All Time Favorite Toy (ATFT)!

(ATFT = dowel rod with a rawhide strip tied to one end.  We have some extremely high-tech toys...)

We loved the red ribbon lure that was attached to the ATFT, but it was getting raggedy from our saber-toof attacks and razor-edged claws, and Mommy was worried about us swallowing ribbon pieces and tying up our innards in knots.  And red yak.

She gave it some thought, and got a paper grocery bag, the paper cutter, and tape.  She cut the bag into thin strips, folded them in half, and taped them by the fold.  Rocket engineering, it was not!

Anyway, she threw the old red ribbon lure in the trash and tied the new one on to the ATFT.

Kitties, the paper ribbon lure is even better than the red ribbon one!

The rustly noise brings us running from every corner and bed in the house to play.

We can bite and chew it to our heart's content--and Mommy doesn't worry.  Because paper goes Right Through.  

It's roughage!  

(But not quite as rough as cardboard, heh heh.)

Mommy made a second lure for us that isn't tied to the rawhide, it lives on the floor so we can  kill it whenever the mood strikes.

Which is often!

Very funny, Mommy.

Happy Thursday!

XX  Salem  XX

Fantastic Friday!

Kitties!

Grayce here, and I have some WONDERFUL news:

Our friend Steve is out of the rehab hospital, and HOME!

HURRAH!

In fact, last night he came over for a visit (yup, he's driving and everything) and to give us our Catmas present.  Of course, Mommy and Daddy got gifts, too--but the REAL present was the ribbon on the packages!  Mommy (in a fit of inspired frontal cortex activity) tied it onto the end of the All Time Favorite Toy (ATFT) for us to play with.

Can you see six of us in the photo?  

No?

Sylvester is peeking out from behind our everso stylishly clad Mommy.

Holy Cod.

The ribbon flitters and flutters about, making a delightfully enticing ribbony rustling noise.

It drives us crazypants!

I'm not usually a big toy fan, but the Ribbon-Augmented ATFT is irresistible.  Do you see how I'm flaring my tail base?  I only do that when I'm super-duper excited.  Worked up.  Full of beans.

It REALLY got my motor running! 

I chased it all over the Great Room, skidding and skitching into the turns...

...and when it flew over the ESS... 

...I saw my chance!

I poufed my tail, bared my mighty fangs, and gave it the BITEY! 

Kitties, I dedded that ribbon so good, it was too terrible to photograph.

Golly, I wonder what Steve will bring us next?

Happy Friday!

XX  Grayce  XX

Frolicking Friday!

Kitties!

Sweet Pea here!

*pant pant*

I'm playing The Game with the All Time Favorite Toy (ATFT).

The Game requires Mommy on the other end of the ATFT.  She's pretty good about playing with us every evening, all we have to do is let her know we're ready to go!  Which we do by carousing around, causing "trouble" and by being "naughty".  These terms are grossly inaccurate, but whatever. 

Now that the carpet is gone The Game has gotten even better--I can run and slide, and make the Cube slide, too!

(Check out Mommy's outfit--another winner...*sigh*)

The ATFT is rather elaborate, consisting of some fezzant fevvers taped (LOTS of tape cuz it's fun to gnaw) onto the end of a dowel rod...

...with a rawhide shoelace tied onto the end.  VERY complicated.

There's a knot on the end of the lace so we can get good gription.

(Sylvester loves this game too and he really likes the knot because his front claws are gone...) 

I like to lurk on the cube and stalk the rawhide.

ATTACK! 

Got it!

Of course as soon as we get a grip Mommy tugs on the ATFT.   

This is what makes The Game so FUN!

You never know what that wily lace will do next.

The fevvers are unpredictable too. 

Look at 'em here, molesting my pantaloons!

Excuse me a second... 

*bappity bap grab CHOMP*

Hmph.

That was rather undignified. 

But that's what happens when the ATFT appears!

It turns us into kittens all over again. 

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a rawhide shoelace that needs killing!

Happy Fiday!

XX  Sweet Pea  XX