My dentist gives out those little pompoms with the googly eyes,
antennae and stick-on feet, and a "tail" that says something like
"Thank you from Dr. Sherman", so I grabbed a couple yesterday (after
surviving the cleaning).

The pink one was for DD, she calls them meeps because of the noise
"they" make :)

I got a red one for the tabby twosome (I pulled off the antennae and
the eyes first).

What a ruckus! That meep got batted around from one end of the house to
the other, fished out from under furniture and smashed up against
walls. You would never know that Pippin was a "senior citizen" (he
turns 8 on Sunday).  I do believe that the meep was riddled with
greeblings and that we have been protected from a fate worse than
death.

Mithu also got into it, but he has a tendency to overrun whatever he
chases, so he was running into things, while the meep sat idly by,
plotting its next move.

Cheers (through the tears of the day)
Caroline S.