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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2006What a noise!!!!
Hi all Several times here people have mentioned/ there have been pictures of kitties playing with.. I don't know what its called but it's a round track with a ball in and a bit in the middle (usually with some sort of feather on a stick thing) were kitty can scratch whilst batting the ball around the track. Anyway every pic seems to suggest this is fun for kitty... So I saw one and brought it home (Yet another toy they have so many!) and set it up... Redunzel's reaction was "Ahhh....catnip". Her approach to catnip is quite bizarre. She stood there sniffing the catnip and slobbering apparently tranced out until she fell over and just lay there with her legs in the air...This is what she does every time... Sarrasine more or less completely ignored it, she bopped the feather a couple of times but that was it. So off I went to bed thinking "That was a waste of money"... 3AM.... Bap! Bap! Bap! Bap! Yep Sarrasine has just discovered the fun of bapping the ball and chasing it and is trying to work out how to get the ball out. She went on like this for over an hour. By which time, much as I like to see her play I was wishing she'd stop it and let me get some sleep!!!! Still the consolation was that she was so tired afterwards that she slept through her early morning "wake the Hoomin up" and I was able to catch up on my sleep. Won't be able to in the week through Lesley Tired slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Sarrasine more or less completely ignored it, she bopped the feather a > couple of times but that was it. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bap! Bap! Bap! Bap! It took ours a while to figure out how to "start the fun," but now this is one of their favourite toys. The best part is, unlike their other mousies or balls, this one won't disappear under the fridge. --Fil The best part is, unlike their other > mousies or balls, this one won't disappear under the fridge. Where Sarrasine is concerned I don't like to use words like "won't" if any cat can get that ball out she will! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > The best part is, unlike their other >> mousies or balls, this one won't disappear under the fridge. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Tony got one out once. Took me three days to figure out where it came from. I can't imagine the effort he put into getting it out in the first place, but he only did it once. Bridget > > Sarrasine more or less completely ignored it, she bopped the feather a > > couple of times but that was it. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > --Fil I moved the fridge to clean behind it about a month ago and couldn't believe all the kitty toys that got trapped under there! I'm gonna have to look for one of these feather ball thingies. kili > Hi all > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > Tired slave of the Fabulous Furballs When Miranda was still a little kitten, she and her siblings had one of those trackball toys. I visited them at about 10 weeks old, and all five kittens were playing with the toy for ages. I even filmed it with my digital camera, but the video came out so dark that you can't make out what's happening in it. I couldn't improve the quality, and Bill Stock tried to help, but with not much better success. It's a pity, because it was so cute with those five little grey fuzzballs attacking that one trackball. I do have a still picture: http://community.webshots.com/photo/231002479/1272253682058511339jvtQxf Two kittens had run off to wrestle with each other, and the others are watching them. I've been thinking of buying Mir and Cal a new trackball, but am worried about the noise. ;o)  SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Two kittens had run off to wrestle with each other, and the others are > watching them. I've been thinking of buying Mir and Cal a new > trackball, but am worried about the noise. ;o) I had one of those, and I found that the noise was considerably lessened if I put it on a rug or carpet. The sound was much muffled then. Chak SignatureIn science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. --Stephen Jay Gould > Hi all > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > Tired slave of the Fabulous Furballs Ours doesn't have the feather thingee on it, just the track, ball (missing) and the circular cardboard center scratcher. The ball is missing as Moe and Ernie (and possibly some others) have figured out how to remove it. Moe traps it between her front paws and lifts it out. Not sure how Ernie does it, but I have seen him carrying it in his mouth (need I say that Ernie is a BIG boy?). If and when we find the ball, I know it has teethmarks on it! It gets replaced in the track and spun by a human hand - then the kittens come running as they love that thing. It's when they get bored with it that one of the big kitties removes to ball to enjoy playing a rousing game of soccer in the kitchen. Oh, and the dog likes it too - but here's the funny part: he hasn't figured out that the ball is in a circular track yet. When we spin it in the track, he will run off in a straight line to catch it, then wonder where it is, then comes back to chase it again!!! Poor old guy. >Ours doesn't have the feather thingee on it, just the track, ball (missing) >and the circular cardboard center scratcher. That's the type that we have, too. Sad to say, neither of mine spend much time playing with the ball, but it's Heidi's very favoritest scratching spot. She also loves to just hang out on top of it, to sit or lie on that paste-board center. SignatureWayne M (indulged by Will and Heidi) >>Ours doesn't have the feather thingee on it, just the track, ball (missing) >>and the circular cardboard center scratcher. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >favoritest scratching spot. She also loves to just hang out on >top of it, to sit or lie on that paste-board center. Rita has both kinds. The kind with the scratcher in the middle, she doesn't care about. Fin used to love it, and he scratched it a lot too, but Rita doesn't care. She also has the almost-clear plastic ring with the ball inside, and she bats that thing all over the living room at least 3 times a week. The ring is see-through, so she can see the bright pink ball, and there are slots around the circumferance, and in the top, but the whole thing moves as she plays, so sometimes it gets stuck somewhere and I have to rescue it for her. But BOY does she love that thing! Fin never really got into it. I can't get Rita to scratch on a scratching post! She uses an old chair and my tv table right now. Both are acceptable, but she also has a cardboard scratcher and a sisal rope thing hanging on a door- knob, and won't touch either. I've tried the catnip thing, and she still won't scratch on a scratcher. Argh. Jane - owned and operated by Princess Rita
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