Tara makes jewelry and we are in high gear of jewelry making for an upcoming womyn's festival in Columbus OH. Consequently, we have lots of strings, leather cord, hemp cord, etc around.
Anything dangling is absolutely irresistible to Curious George and Charles Baron. My cat, Cali, could care less but the boys are addicted. After saying, "NO" for the 100th time I finally just cut a strip of leather cord and tossed it out for the boys to play with. George is now completely addicted to this 1 foot stretch of leather. If you pick it up and dangle it for a moment and then throw it he will tear after it.
I couldn't resist tossing the strip of leather and then calling George back. If he brought the leather cord with him I gave him lots of love attention and petting. Now George plays fetch.
I know, I know, it is against a cat's nature and I'm sure there are some blog kitties that would be upset to hear this but George and Charles both come when called and both now play fetch - Charles with the caps from plastic bottles and George with leather cord.
As far as the jewelry production goes, Tara will have a website on eBay up and running this weekend and I'll pass on the website and more info on the jewelry then. As far as the fetch thing goes....well, I'm an evil cat owner. I'm going to keep playing fetch and encouraging the practice. I just can't resist.
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You're not evil; you know how cats are. They wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun for them.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Michele sent me! ;)
ReplyDeleteBuddah's favorite game is Fetch with one of his little toy mousies. It has to be a mousie that has the little rattles in it, though; apparently silent mousies are substandard Fetch Fare.
ReplyDeleteAnd being one of the family seeing this first hand, I think they do enjoy it and are rebel cats breaking the mold of the feline code..."never act like a dog".
ReplyDeleteHeather,
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the cats behaviour while it lasts: we have two cats now, and the younger one is over 10 years old, and quite the serious old man: his big sister (by adoption) is nearer 15, and she is just quietly cranky!
Thanks for visiting the breadbox yesterday!
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When our now-late cat, Shadow, was a kitten, he would also fetch and return. In his case, crumpled up paper was his favorite.
ReplyDeleteAh, cats are such wonderful creatures! Glad yours is proving to be such a unique presence in your life.