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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2007The Evil Noisy Ball
Yesterday, over to Sainsbury's to get, among other things, more cat food (and with instructions from the owners not to even think of saving money by buying anything other than Felix 'As Good as it Looks'). Walking the cat food aisle I notice among the cat toys a "Babble Ball", advertised as an "Interactive talking toy for cats". Take it down and shake it and it emits a set of bird-like twitterings, miaows, someone calling "Here kitty kitty"... Cool or what! And it's reduced to half price, now only 2 pounds 50 pence. Obviously the little voice that says "Hold on John, supermarkets aren't charities, why is it half price?" was on strike that day along with the voice that reminds you the the house is full of cat toys already and still the only thing they can be relied on to actually play with is the zero-cost rolled up ball of foil off of the choccy bars. So muggins takes it to the checkout, where the checkout operator is somewhat surprised as it starts to miaow as he scans it (there doesn't appear to be any way to turn it off). Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take off in alarm bordering on terror, even worse that when faced with the evil kitty eating monster (a.k.a. the vacuum cleaner). I try leaving it on the bed and eventually Rhia cautiously approaches it, taking great care not to activate it (I may be a wuss, but I'm not stupid you know). So now it's banished to the kitchen, where the cats don't go. I can see I'm going to end up putting it out with the rubbish. And, if I still can't find any way to turn it off, I just know it's going to go off when the dustmen pick the bags up, someone's going to be convinced I've put some poor animal in the trash and I'm going to end up with my rubbish turned out in the street and the police around to feel my collar! Unless I can work out ho how stop it I can't even offer to post it to a UK-based RPCA-er. Not, as anyone in the UK will know, that there's much point trying to post anything here at the moment. John, servant to their Imperial Siamese Majesties, Rhia and Amy. > Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total > disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > great care not to activate it (I may be a wuss, but I'm not stupid > you know). LOL I got the same reaction from the "Thing in a Bag". It jitters. It shakes. It bounces around. It's not like a normal paper bag, which are quite fun. It scared the crap out of Persia. IIRC I mailed it to Victor and it scared his crew, too. Sometimes you have to wonder about the people who design cat toys. Don't they have cats? Where do they get these ideas? Her fav is still the refillable catnip "sock" (Victor has one just like it, too). She bunny kicks it. She tosses and chases it. Same thing with silly little toy mice. Real mice? She's terrified of them. Jill > > Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total > > disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jill Woodgie has a hedgehog that I found - it took the place of the felt duck head and wing which have gone missing or she destroyed. A couple of dollars at the drugstore. She bats it around, picks it up and hauls it around. She's not much for noise. We're not the radio or TV types... I found this ball with a fuzzy wezel or such attached, It rolls all over the place and none of the three cats like it. After a bit, the dog comes, picks it up and dumps it in the tub where it rolls around until I get in ther and turn it off. Wonder who designs the stuff, surely no one with a cat. >> > Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total >> > disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > of dollars at the drugstore. She bats it around, picks it up and hauls > it around. She's not much for noise. We're not the radio or TV types... > > Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total > > disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jill Woodgie has a hedgehog that I found - it took the place of the felt duck head and wing which have gone missing or she destroyed. A couple of dollars at the drugstore. She bats it around, picks it up and hauls it around. She's not much for noise. We're not the radio or TV types... Hugs and purrs, Kathy P. > > Back home I throw it to the masters, expecting them to show total > > disdain. Disdain is emphatically not forthcoming. Instead they take [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jill Woodgie has a hedgehog that I found - it took the place of the felt duck head and wing which have gone missing or she destroyed. A couple of dollars at the drugstore. She bats it around, picks it up and hauls it around. She's not much for noise. We're not the radio or TV types... Hugs and purrs, Kathy P. > LOL I got the same reaction from the "Thing in a Bag". It jitters. It > shakes. It bounces around. It's not like a normal paper bag, which are > quite fun. It scared the crap out of Persia. IIRC I mailed it to Victor > and it scared his crew, too. Sometimes you have to wonder about the people > who design cat toys. Don't they have cats? Where do they get these ideas? Nothing wrong with getting ideas, but they might try something called "QA" on the product, before selling it to the public... > Her fav is still the refillable catnip "sock" I thought the crackle sack was her favorite. Or I guess that doesn't really count as a toy? Joyce > > LOL I got the same reaction from the "Thing in a Bag". It > jitters. It > shakes. It bounces around. It's not like a normal [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Joyce She rolls around on her crackle sack, to be sure. And it does crackle! But she doesn't get inside it. It was designed as an actual sack she's supposed to burrow into. She doesn't. She prefers a plain paper bag. They crackle, too. What she really loves right now is the pop-up cube I got her at the drug store. I haven't uploaded photos of her in the cube thing but I will shortly. And she adores the little mice with leather tails and rabbit fur. Mostly, though, she loves her little catnip re-fillable sock that looks like a spotted leopard. It closes with velcro, so I can refill it with new dried catnip every week. Jill I have three of those pop up cube deals and spend half my time popping them up, someone always jumps on then and they foldup. >> > LOL I got the same reaction from the "Thing in a Bag". It >> jitters. It > shakes. It bounces around. It's not like a normal [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Jill > Yesterday, over to Sainsbury's to get, among other things, more cat > food (and with instructions from the owners not to even think of saving [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > John, servant to their Imperial Siamese Majesties, Rhia and Amy. Perhaps a neighborhood D*G would like to play with it. MLB >Yesterday, over to Sainsbury's to get, among other things, more cat >food (and with instructions from the owners not to even think of saving [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >John, servant to their Imperial Siamese Majesties, Rhia and Amy. Leave it lying around in a corner for a few weeks and see what happens... at some point curiosity will probably overcome fear and 'the ball' will become an object of interest. :) The Girls were given a very noisy toy rat that they loathed and tried to kill... they also want to kill my electric razor. But DH got them a little mouse that squeaks when you move it and they're fascinated by it. |
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