What object has your pet decided is actually their toy? My cat sees me put a pen on the table

[applegrove]

to write a check and bam - she tries to knock it off the table. That is where I find my pens..... on the floor. So if I need one I know where to look. LOL!

[polly7]

1. Not a toy, but my cat won't sleep on anything but paper.

If I leave a sticky note on the table, he'll move around until he finds the most comfortable position to lie on it.

I've tried a cat bed, blankets, everything .......... he MUST HAVE paper, no matter how small it is.

[applegrove]

2. Twilight has just knocked two more pens off the table. No point in putting them back up. They now

belong on the floor, just as my couch is itself a cat toy. I give in. My catMaster deems it so.

[WolverineDG]

3. plastic bottle caps from Coca Cola bottles

& Q tips.

[MadrasT]

4. I have a cat who is obsessed with coins.

Pennies, nickles, dimes and so forth.

I can't let her play with them because she tries to eat them and I am afraid she'll choke.

But boy does she go nuts if she finds a penny on the floor.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Everything in my house is a potential cat toy.

Particular favorites are plastic milk bottle caps, rubber bands (Jeoffry eats them if I don't stop him), and pens.

[eShirl]

6. hair elastics and scrunchies

The package of 100 rainbow hair elastics I bought just for her all disappeared within a couple months. (most likely under the stove, fridge and heavy furniture) She loves to bat those things across the kitchen floor.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Kidley Catton loves those, too

I can't keep them in stock.

When he's trying to get my attention, any small object that is on my desk or the coffee table (pens, remotes, etc.) becomes a cat toy.

[nickinSTL]

7. Minerva's latest toy is the toilet paper roll...

she's decided she must knock it to the floor (we keep in on the toilet tank) and proceed to shred the paper. Trying to break her of that.

She MUST knock a bottle cap off the table next to the couch any time there is one there (I often put an extra cap up there just for her).

There isn't much that doesn't potentially qualify as a cat toy.

Our living room floor is perpetually covered with boxes and packing paper for her entertainment.

[sakabatou]

8. Yarn balls

[applegrove]

9. Oh yeah. I once knitted two sweaters for my nephews and said when I delivered them that

I would not be surprised if the cat was still attached to them. She certainly had fun as I knitted.

[Puzzledtraveller]

11. My Final Fantasy Cactuar plush.

[crunch60]

12. A tennis ball, stuffed inside a white sock, knotted, with fringed edges, I also put

catnip inside. He carried it around, used it like a wash cloth, loved it. He only liked Used white socks.

[Incitatus]

13. Every box that gets left around the house.

And my keyboard his my cats bed, but only when I am trying to use the computer.

[unapatriciated]

14. Our jack loves rocks.

Some of the ones he chooses are almost as big as he is. It's too funny watching him barking at them and pushing them around with his nose.

If he doesn't have a ball a rock is the next best thing for him.

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[pipi_k]

16. Oh darn!

I tried to play your doggy video but it said it would not play in my country...

[unapatriciated]

18. Are you in Germany?

That's where most vids with songs in the background won't play (copyright issue).
Here is one without music.

Randall, our jack mix had never seen snow.
Snootchie, our aussie mix remembered it from when we lived in Mammoth Lakes, CA. She loved the snow.

Sorry, hubby mostly focused on the snow since we had not seen it since leaving Mammoth in 2003.

[pipi_k]

15. The refrigerator

was always where I would find my pens. Well, beneath it, I mean. One of my long-ago cats did the same thing. Pens and pencils...whap!!!!

Anyway, on to Lucy and Nikki the nutball German Shepherds...

Their mutual plaything...

Mr Chipmunk.

He spends all day eating seeds and popcorn and other goodies under the bird feeders on the other side of their doggy yard fence.

Then he runs back and forth along the side of the garage in and out of a tube and they run along the fence with him.

They spend all day out there doing this.

(PS... just wanted to mention...they have free access to the house at all times)

From sometime this past winter:

[unapatriciated]

17. looks like the kitties have taken over this thread.

Where are all the doggies?

[Jokerman]

19. Fresh Tomatoes

I kid you not, Roxie is obsessed with fresh tomatoes.

We used to leave them out on the counter to ripen but since waking up to find pieces of tomato scattered around the house a couple of times we've had to start hiding them in the bread box.

[LynneSin]

20. My hands

You look at my hands you'd think I was a cutter.

That's just my cats deciding they want to play with my hand

[rox63]

21. Anything that is not nailed down

and is lightweight enough for a cat to move.

[ceile]

22. jewelry

necklaces in particular. When she's in a mood, she'll jump on the bathroom counter or my dresser, digs around til she finds a "shiney" then takes off running with it. She does this kind of waddle/run as she drags it behind her. Should be interesting when we move- going to be a lot of "I've been looking for that!"

[rox63]

23. If it's sparkly and/or dangly, my cats want it NOW!

So jewelry always qualifies as a potential toy.

[ceile]

24. oh yes!

And I think she likes the chase too. "Hey, come back here with that!"

[bluedigger]

25. Actually, I stole one of hers!

My dog s very well behaved and hasn't taken any of my things as her own that I didn't give her.

I, on the other hand, am using her firehose toy as an armrest for my mouse hand at the 'puter.

[baldguy]

26. My shoes - or my one shoe, actually.

While I'm gone during the day, and if I don't put them away, she'll take one shoe. She doesn't chew on it or damage it, but at different times I've found it up on the couch, up on my bed, in her bed, by her water dish, under the dining room table and many other places. Everywhere but with the other shoes.

[AsahinaKimi]

27. Not a toy ...however

ALL SHRIMPS that enter the house belong to him (my cat).