What is your critter doing? I ordered a cardboard cutting board for sewing.

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Of course it came it a huge rectangular box. Huge. Captain Hughey decided he is going to get in it even if it is still taped up.
The box is occasionally falling on him because it is resting on the couch but he darned well is going to find a way. A while ago he was chewing on a corner.

[Srkdqltr]

1. I can't imagine that is good for the dog.

[applegrove]

2. The cat. It is not hurting him. The box is full of more cardboard only

and is jammed between the couch and the wall so when it falls it doesn't hit the ground. He's given up. For now.

[XanaDUer2]

3. My cat Tiddles

has boxes throughout the house. His obsession, however, is his cardboard scratching block.

He guards it. He sleeps on it. He does not like it being touched or moved. He just discovered a large bday bag coworkers gave me.

But that scratching block is HIS.

[applegrove]

5. What is a scratching block? Is it that cardboard inset in plastic?

[jmowreader]

12. Pretty much, yeah

If you want to make one, get a cardboard box and cut it into one-inch strips, then glue the strips together so the corrugations are pointing up. And if you REALLY want to be high speed about it, rub it with catnip.

[applegrove]

14. Someone offered me one for free last week. I said no because it didn't work for my cats.

I got rid of the couch they were using to scratch at the time so maybe they would be into it now. They are both trying to find things to scratch now that I have a leather couch that will not give. There is a tree house but that is pretty much destroyed. Will try yours again.

[womanofthehills]

4. My female dog, Jazz, is into stuffed animals big time

My male definitely not into them. All her animals are so old & dirty, I got her a squeak lamb today from Amazon. She took the toy and ran, and then covered it up with dirt. My other dog led me to it. So now she has a really dirty new toy.

[applegrove]

6. Yikes. At least cat stuffed mice come in bulk so one can throw them out.

That being said Captain Hughey had a stuffed octopus I called Octo and got attached to myself because they were so cute together. Took me years to throw out Octo.

[Raine]

7. My cat Charlie has me pinned down

on the couch, he spread himself out in my lap.🙀 I could push him off but then he's going to pester me to eat again so sometimes its better to let sleeping cats sleep. 😸❤️

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8. My cat gets possessive when I am talking on the phone. Tonight I was talking to my sister

and I tried to get him off of me. He would not get off me so I could not sit up (I was lying down and he was lying down on top of me). I think he thinks I am talking to him when I talk on the phone. He acts up anyhow.

[Retrograde]

9. Twist ties are big with my kittens

They fight over them, bat them, carry them around the house. I think they have a secret stash of them somewhere. Ribbons and small balls of yarn are also big. And they have a priority mail box that mysteriously moves around the house at night.

[applegrove]

10. Twist ties are big here too. And plastic strips your rip off of mixed, washed

salad greens' plastic container. The garbage is their toy box. I make sure to put gross stuff in a box they can't get into.

[Retrograde]

20. Free toys are the best!

I just wish the leaves of my houseplants didn't fall into this category!

I have a very nice stuffed mouse a late friend made: it looks almost real - the right size, the right coloring. It's been through 5 cats now with little wear - something I can't say about store-bought ones.

[Grasswire2]

19. oh be careful with yarn and ribbon

If they eat it, it can tangle up inside. One time my orange boy Keiko ran across the carpet in front of me and there was a length of ribbon hanging out of his butt. Off to the vet. It was more than a foot long. Luckily, easily removed.

[Retrograde]

21. They carry them around

and bat them across the floor. They sometimes bring them into the bed so we can play with them, too. What I don't understand is their fascination with the bathtub: it's one of their favorite places to wrestle. IMHO, it's so they can get wet and leave paw prints all over the place.

[central scrutinizer]

11. My cat has never shown any interest in boxes

Or crawling inside anything.

[jmowreader]

13. Are you sure it's a cat?

[Silent3]

22. Good point! n/t

[Hekate]

15. Oh my, for a moment I thought your uncle had left you a strange mixed-species animal

It’s just your cat.

Beware.

[applegrove]

16. How did you come up with uncle? I'm perplexed.

[Hekate]

17. DU Classic. Enjoy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x624815

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18. Took me a while to get it.