Cat Toys

Our house is full of cat toys. Kidd has three main favourites. The first is a plastic stick with five coloured leather strips at the end. The second is not actually at toy, but Kidd has claimed it has his own. It’s a cover from a pet heat pad. He loves to throw it around and carry it around the house in his mouth. And the third is a play tunnel and since it is only a couple of days old, it may be a little early to actually call it a favourite.

The leather stick is actually the first toy I actually used to play with Kidd. He was still a baby at his breeder’s house then. My sister and I had gone around for a visit and it was a toy that had been left behind when she had boarded her boys there some weeks before. Kidd and I played for at least two hours and he never tired. He still doesn’t! Now he has progressed to playing fetch with it. He will appear, always at the most inconvenient moment, with it in his mouth. You are then expected to move it around so that he can play chase. If you can then throw the thing from the lounge down the hall, all the better. Although that is not always easy because if you are not quick enough he will be hanging onto the end of it. He will then go chasing after it, jumping over the play tunnel, to retrieve it. On his way back, no matter where the tunnel is, he has to go threw it. I have no idea why this important, but it is. He has yet to play with the tunnel at any other time, expect when retrieving his toy.

Unfortunately brains seem to only be passed down on the female side of the family. Because Kidd has not worked out that what makes the stick move is human hands. Some times when he brings the thing back he will place not on my lap or next to where I’m sitting, so that I can reach. But instead he will place it at the other end of the sofa well out of arms reach. He will then sit next to me facing the stick and sit and watch it for ages, expecting it to move. I have to admit he is very patient if somewhat dim!