Silly Buddy the cat went looking for a toy and found a plastic bag filled

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with cardamon. He then brings it to me and drops it on me to get me to play fetch. Then he stares at me like I am a killjoy. So funny. I see he has moved on from getting his toys out of the garbage and into getting them out of the cupboard. I wish he would show that much interest in the store bought toys I have for him. What stuff has your cat 'found'?

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. My kitty (now deceased) used to

go shopping for q-tips out of the bathroom wastebasket. I'd come home to find shredded little puffs all over the place.

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3. Buddy does that. I have to hide them.

[tblue37]

29. Many cats LOVE ear wax. If your cat licks your ears, that is why. Used Q-tips are like crack to

such a cat.

Ear wax = protein. Cats don't taste as efficiently as we do, so the idea and the taste don't gross them out.

[ButSeeYa]

2. We just adopted a new fur baby, Simba...

He came with dozens of toys. He plays with none of them. The other day, he found one of my hair scrungies, became so infatuated with it, and that's all he plays with. Oh, and his shadow.

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4. They adore playing with anything novel. It must be intellectual stimulation for them.

[lapfog_1]

5. waded up ball of aluminum foil

entertains my cats for hours on end.

Oh, and every week I get a FEDEX letter... and my smallest cat waits eagerly for me to retrieve the letter from the porch because she knows that she will get the "zip opener" bit of cardboard from the top of the FedEx letter... she loves to play with it.

[applegrove]

6. Yes. Aluminum in my garbage is quickly turned into good fun.

[tblue37]

30. One of my cats hangs around when I open a bag of cat litter, because I tie a knot in the

thick paper strip at the top and toss it as a batting toy for her.

All my cats love when I cut a length of cord from old window blinds. The little plastic thing at the end acts as a small weight and makes the cord swing perfectly.

My Lucy likes twistvties. Sometimes I bend one for her, but sometimes I twist 3 into a "spider."

My four cats all have different "found toy" preferences.

[Doreen]

7. Soda caps is great fun for my Liam.

He also likes to take my morning socks that I leave on my bed in case I need them. They are big and thick and I have them tucked into each other so they are bigger than his head. Sometimes I find them at the end of the bed, on the floor next to the bed, out in the living room, or in the cat tunnel in the dinning room. That last one was a new one. I could not find them for two days then I was walking into the door and there they were in the damn cat tunnel.

[applegrove]

8. Does he like the cat tunnel? Does it get used enough?

[Doreen]

9. Oh yes, he and my Tsuki love it.

Sometimes they play hard at night and it rattles and wakes me up. I have a very very tiny apartment. Tsuki barely fits in it but she loves it as much as Liam does.

[applegrove]

10. I will have to get one. Buddy was half hanging off the tv cabinet tonight

looking like he'd try anything to add a interest in his life. He obviously has not heard that cats are supposed to sleep 16 hours a day.

[Doreen]

13. Mine are sleeping now so that they can play at night until about 7:00pm the next day.

Yeah, the 16 hour thing is a myth. Have you tried a laser pointer?

[applegrove]

14. Yes. He got bored. He plays with me the whole time I sit at my computer

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in the evenings. He literally knows which button turns off the power because when he used to step there and the laptop would go off I'd start to react and grab him. He thinks that is a great time. And I pick him up and hug him and talk to him. And drama. I think that is his problem. He wants to be entertained. He sits at the window and waits for me to come home each day. As soon as he spots me outside he jumps down and runs to the door to meet me there. The older cat Twilight does not want to be pestered. I think a tunnel would be perfect. It might even lure Twilight into playtime.

[Doreen]

15. My two cats come from different places. one is about 6 years and the other 1 and a half years.

I some how got two cats who play fetch. they actually bring me a toy drop it on me or in front of me and I throw it and they go get it and bring it back. I did not train them they just brought me a toy one day and it all started. At one time in my life I thought it better to have cats because you did not have to entertain them like dogs....boy, was I wrong...very wrong. My two also love the laser.

[woodsprite]

11. So cute! But would the cardamom hurt him if he ingested it?

Much better than when my husband and I were in HS and cut class to have a bit of fun in the afternoon before his mom got home. Darn cat raided the trash can and brought a condom downstairs and laid it at my future MILs feet. I was mortified. All she said was "At least you're using something." That year for Xmas, we all got boxes of multicolored ones in our stockings "because she thought they were festive."

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12. Sounds like a great woman. I got the cardamon away. He likely wasn't trying to eat it. He probably

just found the consistency of the powder in plastic novel. He is often dropping things in front of my face he want me to throw for him to fetch.

[Doreen]

16. Sounds like you have a cool MIL.

[woodsprite]

23. She used to be more so than now.

That was almost 40 years ago. As she and my FIL got older, somehow they turned into Evangelical Fundy Conservatives.

[Doreen]

25. I hope I do not get like that when I get old.

Some older people do get like that and I wonder if it is because they realize they are closer to death and want to make sure they are in the right before they die.

[Warpy]

17. Funniest thing was two cats passed out on the kitchen floor

with catnip scattered throughout the house, ripped up baggie in the middle of my bed. It had been on top of the cabinets.

After that, their dope got stored in a jar with a screw top.

Little assholes.

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18. I found a cat toy and some catnip spread on my sheets a week ago.

But there is no point in scolding them because they are not dogs and have no guilt for making a mess unless they are caught in the act.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. My cat goes crazy for these fuzzy balls

A couple came in a bag of cat toys and those were the only things he was interested in. He loves to chase them - though he has yet to bring them back. I was able to find a bag of them online and now they sell them separately at my local pet supply store. The only issue is that they get lost pretty easily, there are probably a few under everything in the house.

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20. Last time I bought him toys the toys sat there.

[Rhiannon12866]

21. That's mainly true with my Felix, as well.

When he was a kitten (he's only 2), he loved squeaky toys and anything that spun and moved, but now the only thing that gets his attention are those easy-to-lose little balls - except: have you ever seen The Cat Dancer? It's such a simple toy, a piece of wire with little pieces of cardboard stuck on each end - and I have never met a cat that can resist it! It's very inexpensive and sold most everywhere, but it's the best cat toy I know! My aunt gave a previous kitten one as a gift, said she has to put hers away because it's so irresistible, LOL. My cat has tried to climb up on the fridge to reach it!

[applegrove]

22. Yes. Buddy has one of those. I don't know where it is.

[shenmue]

24. Awww

[CountAllVotes]

26. Paper towels

Andreas loves his paper towels!

He unrolls them in the dark of the night an builds a pyramid shaped tower out of them in the living room and likes to play play play with this bizarre configuration.

It is rough on the paper towels, believe me.

As for Andreas, he is a clever fellow. He recently appeared with a 20 ft. cord from where exactly?

[kimbutgar]

27. My cat loves shoe laces

I found some old shoe lace and left it on my bed to threw away and the cat jumped on my bed, grabbed it and ran off with it. I went to get it back and the cat loved the chase. Some mornings I see the shoe lace reappear in my living room.

[Phoenix61]

28. Miss Mia, one of three fur balls who share my home

is fixated on an 8 inch piece of cotton clothes line. She carries it around in her mouth and brings it to me to throw so we can play fetch. She's sweet that way.

[KatyMan]

31. I have a leather guitar strap and

Every cat (visitor or permanent resident) that has been in our house plays with it quite vigorously. They don't really scratch on it so much as just roll around on it and get wrapped up in it. Weirdos.