Kittens are TOO weird!

[WillParkinson]

My aunt gave me this toy to give my kittens. It's a plastic disc with a ball in the center that will travel the outer edge of the disc. The cats play with it once in a while but that's about it.

Their favorite toy? An empty paper bag from Pick & Save.

When Cider and Dot decide to sleep they do so in the sink. Cider is much larger than Dot yet Dot usually ends up on the bottom.

Wherever I sit is obviously the best place in the house because both kittens end up laying on me. Cider ends up near my neck and Dot lays on my lap.

Yes, it's true. Kittens are weird.

And I just love them.

[commander bunnypants]

1. Yep

a shoe string is Sebastian Cattbutt's favorite toy.

DDQM

[demnan]

2. AWWWWWWWW!

Aren't they sweet!!!

Just a suggestion, if you put up a Christmas Tree this year, try shatter-proof ornaments!

[WillParkinson]

3. No tree...

We learned many years ago that the old axiom is true:

Anything on the floor is a cat toy.

Anything not on the floor soon will be.

[ronnykmarshall]

28. We tied ours down.

The tree not the cats.

They are having mucho fun with the tree.

[commander bunnypants]

4. With no tinsel

cats love to eat that stuff.

DDQM

[WillParkinson]

5. Well, c'mon....

Who doesn't?

[commander bunnypants]

6. Whatever floats your boat my friend

but I dont wanna be around when that stuff comes out the other end.

EEEWWWWW

DDQM

[WillParkinson]

7. No, REALLY!

It's like dental floss...only shiny for your heinie.

[commander bunnypants]

8. Bawhahahahahaha

DDQM

[commander bunnypants]

13. Great thanks for the visual

I am religous about flossing my teeth. Now I will think of the thread when I floss.

Man

DDQM

[WillParkinson]

15. Well, it's nice to be remembered!

No matter how weird it is.

[Liberal Classic]

9. Moral of the story is never buy cat toys

Except for catnip.

For the rest paper bags, the little plastic strip from a milk jug, and a measuring tape are the best toys for cats.

[slackmaster]

12. My big guy's favorite toy now is a 2-foot piece of "spline"

The round plastic stuff used to fasten window screens to their frames.

Dirt cheap but hours of fun!

[zbdent]

18. Oh, come on. A ping-pong ball is terrific!

and they come in packs of threes!

[LynneSin]

10. Never much of a fan of kittens

In college, I had a roommate who decided to get a kitten. Well the kitten hated her and irritated the hell out of me. At night, the kitten would keep jumping on me while I slept and if I made any movement he would start to claw (in a friendly manner) at me. It was an Indian Summer in a dorm room with no A/C and I'm sleeping with a heavy quilt on me so I couldn't feel that dang kitten's claws.

[WillParkinson]

11. I was in bed the other morning...

And Cider jumps on my chest and lays down. Nothing unusual there.

Suddenly he stands up and starts batting at my earlobe. Then put a liplock on it!

I'm not easily tickled but BOY did that do it!

[demnan]

14. I used to have a cat who looked like Cider

His favorite toy was a walnut. He would much prefer to bat that around than a ball. I think he just thought it was more natural. Luci was never much for catnip but I was aghast when he became quite proficient in killing birds when he was older.

The vets write that cats really don't respond to catnip until they are sexually mature, so it's no use to buy catnip toys for a kitten. Most kittens love a string and if you knit they are in heaven over skeins of yarn.

Pad Thai likes little foil balls and small toy mice he can carry in his mouth. Lily is my catnip addict.

The kitten never really grows up in a well-loved cat.

[OldSoldier]

24. Most kittens don't respond to catnip

My cat TB responded to it right after his eyes opened. Walked over to a little pile of catnip we left for his mama, crawled right in and started rolling around.

[Padraig18]

16. Sid like crumpled cigarette packs.

Crumple one up and toos it on the floor, and he'll play with it for HOURS. He will also 'fetch' one, although he occasionally takes his time returning it to be thrown again. :)

[pansypoo53219]

17. my basil ate

sauerkraut the other day.he also lickd up butter smothered broccoli bits. i do not have kittens, i have dogs.

[Lorien]

19. tin foil balls

my Maine Coon kitten loves them!

[Archae]

20. Don't forget the world's greatest cat/kitten toy.

A laser pointer. :D

[BiggJawn]

25. Ever see a 14# cat jump 4 feet?

Shine the laser on the wall....Fun for HOURS!

[TrogL]

21. Plastic coke bottle lids

they like to carry them around and leave them where you'll step on them

[TrogL]

22. Why am I not allowed to have a stopper for the bathroom sink?

and why does the TV stand need it?

Is this some sort of offering?

Every morning when I get up and want to shave, I have to go into the living room and retrieve the bathroom sink stopper from in front of the TV.

Did you know kittens can snicker?

[geniph]

26. What I want to know

is why the water dish needs to have kibble in it? I put the water dish some distance from the kibble because Maine Coons like to paddle in their water, and if the food's nearby, it gets mushy. But someone is taking pieces of kibble all the way across the floor to the water dish and dropping them in. Why?

They also have some deep-seated need to put their furry mousie toys in shoes. Usually my husband and stepsons' shoes - mine aren't big enough. They also drop their toys in the water dish and play with them for awhile until they've made mousie tea, then they lose interest.

I frequently wake up and find every toy they possess on or around my bed. They bring all their toys to me in the night. Why? They know I won't play when I'm sleeping. Hell, even my husband knows that, and he's much more determined to get me to "play" than they are. :evilgrin:

But the real thing I can't figure out is why Fire, every night at 11:00 (he's like a frigging atomic clock), gets his sheepskin rat and carries it around the house, howling like a banshee. If you come look at him, he will spit it out and look embarrassed. The minute you're out of sight, he's doing it again. What does this MEAN?!

[Skittles]

23. my cat Clancy went ape-shit over a piece of popcorn last night

he batted it all around the apartment, playing with it like it was a mouse. Of course, he ignores any toys I have ever brought home. :O

[LynneSin]

27. How do you guys get your cats to play with these toys

I've bought about $60 worth of Cat toys and Abbie has shown no interest whatsoever in any of them.

These toys include: Scratching post that has a spring attached to the end of the post and a toy on the other end (He'd rather just work his claws either on the carpeting or my breast).

A round thingie with a spinning mouse in it: That amused him for 2 minutes. When he couldn't get the mouse he just walked away.

A windup mouse: Abbie just laid there and watched the mouse roll on by.

Various balls: He watched those roll away too.

Catnip: No interest in it and he's definately not a kitten.

HELP, I have a lazy ass cat!!!!

[GOPisEvil]

29. Go shopping at a place that uses paper sacks...

...put the empty paper sack on the floor. Hours of amusement for your new feline friend.