I just got a new cat toy for the Gang of Fur.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

It's a round plastic track with a ball the cats can roll around the track and a central hub where you can put powdered catnip. The idea is that rolling the ball around the track causes the catnip scent to emanate from the hub and cause the cat to have even more stoned fun rolling the ball. I thought this could keep them amused.

However -

My cats managed to dismantle the thing within five minutes - they got the top off the catnip-containing hub and ate the catnip.

Now they are lying on the floor in little stoned heaps.

[Arugula Latte]

1. They are going to need some Doritos pretty soon.

Munchies, man.

[monmouth]

10. Does it seem a bit ironic that cats can legally have catnip but weed for humans is a NO???.. Bah.n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I suppose one could argue that it's not such a big deal with cats

since they don't drive, operate machinery, or vote. I do not want a cat who is high on catnip driving a city bus.

[monmouth]

17. Haha, point taken..n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. You really have no idea what they are doing while you are asleep, do you?

Apparently, cats don't allow themselves to be photographed voting or operating bulldozers.

[KamaAina]

2. The Gang of Fur!!!

[lunatica]

3. LOL!

Why do people keep trying to outsmart cats?

[NV Whino]

4. LOL!

[emilyg]

5. LOL

[Phentex]

6. Love it!

They sound like fun!

[turtlerescue1]

7. Guess they showed you eh?

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Look on the bright side. Now you don't have to spend the whole evening

listening to that little ball going round and round and round and round and round . . . .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Ha, there is that.

The cats are too stoned to move and the toy, which I reassembled, is silent for now.

[HopeHoops]

11. We've got a couple of those tracks, but the center is just a doughnut hole.

I put catnip in the track itself. I like spinning it in the air until the ball is whizzing around like crazy and their heads are following it side to side. Then I set it down and watch them freak out on it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. They took the damn thing apart again. Now the ball is missing.

[HopeHoops]

13. We had a cat (deceased) that took the ball out. Only one to accomplish that.

I popped it back in.

[Ikonoklast]

14. Yep, we had one just like it. Lasted one hour.

Our mob pushed it down the basement steps, then sat there and watched it bounce off of the walls on the way down.

[Bertha Venation]

16. "Now they are lying on the floor in little stoned heaps."

That's a vivid picture.