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jmcquown - 27 Feb 2005 21:40 GMT
I had to run to pick up some ingredients for dinner tonight.  Walked through
the pet supply aisle and saw something called 'A-DOOR-Able' that I just had
to get for Persia.  It's a catnipped filled rabbit fur mousie on an
adjustable elastic cord that you attach to the top of a door.  From the
moment I took it out of the package and was trying to judge how long the
cord should be, she was following me around like I was carrying a fish!  I
hung it from the door of my "office.  She's having a blast with this thing!
(I may have to crank it up a tad higher.)  She lays there under it for a
minute, then looks up and remembers it's there and yanks on the tail - it
starts bouncing, she starts bouncing! :)

I'll try to get a photo but she seems to sense when I'm trying to capture
her doing something cute and immediately ceases.

Jill
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Bill Stock - 27 Feb 2005 22:17 GMT
>I had to run to pick up some ingredients for dinner tonight.  Walked
>through
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>
> Jill

I'm sure you know this, but don't let her play with this thing unattended.
Smokey got one of these wrapped around her foot and freaked out. I had to
drag het out from under the couch and cut it off. I also saw a news story
where a kitten hung itself on one of these. The elastic wraps around the
cat's neck and tightens up.
jmcquown - 27 Feb 2005 22:28 GMT
>> I had to run to pick up some ingredients for dinner tonight.  Walked
>> through
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> off. I also saw a news story where a kitten hung itself on one of
> these. The elastic wraps around the cat's neck and tightens up.

I do know, but thank you for the reminder, Bill.  I've wound it up higher so
she has to really work to get at it so I don't think she can hurt herself
with the elastic.  But I'll take it down at night.  (I also don't want to
hear the 'bapping' of it against the door when I'm trying to sleep!)

Jill
O J - 27 Feb 2005 23:16 GMT
Jill wrote:

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>I'll try to get a photo but she seems to sense when I'm trying to capture
>her doing something cute and immediately ceases.

How do they know??

Regards and Purrs,
O J
jmcquown - 27 Feb 2005 23:27 GMT
> Jill wrote:
>
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> Regards and Purrs,
> O J

Beats me, but somehow they do.  I think the Mothership beams them
information outside of our frequency and they know to halt and do nothing
immediately.

Jill
CATherine - 28 Feb 2005 03:08 GMT
>I had to run to pick up some ingredients for dinner tonight.  Walked through
>the pet supply aisle and saw something called 'A-DOOR-Able' that I just had
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>
>Jill

I have a client who has one of those hanging on her bedroom doorsill.
Her cat will come around the corner low to the floor and suddenly leap
into the air and grab it while still leaping for the bed! It is
hilarious to watch her as the elastic snaps the toy back through the
doorway with her following the flight. She gets a lot of exercise.

--
CATherine
JB - 28 Feb 2005 04:04 GMT
In <r2rUd.14821$Q47.573@bignews5.bellsouth.net>,
jmcquown <jmcquown@bellsouth.net> shouted to everyone in earshot,
>I had to run to pick up some ingredients for dinner tonight.  Walked through
>the pet supply aisle and saw something called 'A-DOOR-Able' that I just had
>to get for Persia.

Oh, those things are great.  Just a couple weeks ago, Jimmer was
playing with his in the doorway between the dining room and foyer
while I was in the den, about 25 feet away and through a short
hallway.  I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye that didn't
"fit" with what should have been going on, and I looked up to see him
dashing in my general direction with the mouse in his mouth.  Just as
I started realising what was about to happen, it did--as he got about
halfway to me, the clip pulled right off the doorway frame, and with
all that elastic tension, it smacked him right in the hinder.  Poor
boy, didn't go near the thing for the rest of the day. <G>

Jeff
Mischief - 28 Feb 2005 04:15 GMT
ROFLMAO!!!!!  

The poor kitty and his injured dignity!!

Kristi
 
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