Cat Toy!

[geminigirl]

I adopted a kitten about two months ago. Beta (in my userpic) is now about 14 weeks old. I've been in the hut since Monday, but this morning I noticed something about him. He's absolutely fascinated by the crinkly noise when I unwrap an OB tampon. He stops whatever trouble he's making when he hears the crinkle and starts watching me. He races into the bathroom, and leaps up on the edge of the toilet or the tub and waits til I throw the wrapper out and has been known to fish it out and play with the crunchy wrapper.

Odd little boy, he is.

Comments

[callmeblinker.livejournal.com]

That's cute. My cat likes to steal pads out of a bthroom drawer and carry them around the house. :) Strange animals they are.

[tome.livejournal.com]

My kitten has a Q-Tip fetish...

[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Try giving him some balled up tin foil to play with.
Cats seem to love it!

[geminigirl]

He's got balls of foil, he's got mice, he's got crinkly things, all over my apartment. His favorite toy seems to be my other cat though, and she's none too thrilled by that.

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[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

lol...
cats are great :)

[just-julie.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine used to have the same problem, except that her cat didn't wait for her to take them out and unwrap them. imagine her surprise the day me and four other friends came over to her house to help her move stuff and discovered the kitty's stash! all told, we probably found a whole box worth of tampons under her living room furniture. hope your little kit-kat doesn't develop the thieving habit!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean... my little guy is all about wadded up paper, and crinkly-sounds, too.

[bezajel.livejournal.com]

ours pulls screwed up paper out of the bin and shreds it.
i'd hate to know what might happen if i let her into the bathroom with me.

[killerbunny.livejournal.com]

my cats (especially The Wandering Prince) adore things shaped like little sticks (pens, pencils, chopsticks, make-up brushes), and they love crinkly noise-making things (plastic, paper, tin foil), so a tampon which is shaped like a stick AND makes crinkly noises is pretty much a little piece of heaven for them.

i noticed The Wandering Prince would pull tampons out of my backpack or purse, or the trash can, and carry them around the house, often stashing them under the bed. but the worst thing i found? one day i went to open the cupboard under the bathroom sink where i keep several boxes of tampons, and there he was that rascal cat. he had open the cupboard, climbed inside, opened 4 boxes of tampons, pulled ALL the tampons out of the box and piled them in a corner of the cabinet. he sat there on the pile of tampons (i'd say about 300 tampons, half of them already chewed up), like a kind of a throne, and played with a tampon or two between his paws.

i of course shooed him out of the cabinet and then found him back in there within 15 minutes, perched on his tampon throne. we've had to keep a child lock on the cabinet at all times.

yeah, gotta love cats.