You will need:
1 – One single wooden bead (not too small)
2 – One Bathtub
3 – One Curious Cat
Instructions:
1 – Take the wooden bead into your bathroom.
2 – Call your cat.
3 – Roll the wooden bead around in the bathtub.
4 – Allow your cat to jump into the tub.
5 – Observe.
Cautions:
- Use a wooden bead! I won’t mention any names, but a certain cat in my life was playing in the tub with a marble. In a moment of unbridled glee, the marble was thrust into the air. It landed on the aforementioned cat’s head with a loud “CLONK!” sound. He paused for a moment looking rather dizzy. Since then, he has requested that only wooden beads be used for this game. Now when they hit him on the head, there’s only a small “plock!” sound – and he doesn’t have to pause very long to recover. (He has asked me to mention that no permanent damage was done in what we both call The Marble Incident.)
- Make sure the bead is big enough so that the cat can’t swallow it. (It should be a little bit bigger than a marble.)
- If you have guests over for dinner, be sure to remove the bead from the tub. Otherwise your dinner will be interrupted by an odd rolling sound coming from the bathroom. You will then have to explain to your guests that yes, you are that mentally ill, and you actually spend valuable time coming up with these kinds of activities for your cat.
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OH, my gosh! I can’t BELIEVE you have the spitting image of my cat! Not only does my cat look like this, h acts like that! His favorite activity is to lie in our huge sink to wait for a “ninky from the sinky”. LOL! That’s code for the cat wants a drink. Thanks for posting this! I haven’t been able to capture a good picture of my cat via camera to show to others, so I will just show this link.
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We are fortunate enough to have a roman tub in our apartment and my cat loves to play in it with her plush mice. She loves to have them tossed onto the rim so she can stalk them and then slide down the side. However, she firmly believes every mouse should have a mousehole. After she put two of them down the drain we learned to keep it covered at all times.
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My cat showed me the game when he took a practice golf ball into the tub and I found him playing “hand” ball with it. I have even had three cats in the tub at the same time taking turns with the ball. . . The ball is light weight plastic with holes in it that make it easy tor a cat to pick it up and carry it.
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what a cutie cat.
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The best I’ve found is those soft, light weight, spongy type made for my cats, or get them ping pong balls. They bat them around in there and it doesn’t make as much noise and if they get a bit wild at play and hit themselves with it, no ouchies!
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My cat Orie loved the bathtub and it saddens me that he is no longer around to play this game. I put a link to this posting on my own blog http://handsoftimeconcierge.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/best-cat-game-ever/ I think some of my clients’ cats will enjoy this game.
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PING PONG BALLS, ping pong balls, ping pong balls. A neighbor’s adolescent cat visits (while my very good-natured gentlemanly shiny lovely cat boyfriend monitors his every move, pupils dilated with slight anxiety), and once he discovered the ping pong ball/bathtub, he comes into the apartment and heads straight for the bathtub. Thus, we call him Ping Pong. Don’t know what anyone else calls him.
Oh, and also, your site is excellent, substantial and rich, and very attractively designed, and I have referred many to it. Thank you.
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My Blackjack has found that when you catch a mouse, MUCH fun can be had if you put ‘em in the tub. He’d go for hours with the torture if I didn’t go and rescue the poor rodent. Now I don’t let him in the house without checking if he has anything in his mouth.
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The favorite toy for my cats has always been the plastic strip that comes off the gallon milk jug- you peel it so you can open the lid. When we move furniture we find about 10 hidden underneath/behind. My daughter has 2 psycho Siamese cats and she has to keep her tampons locked up or else they will hunt them down, unwrap them and then drag them all around her apartment- preferably in front of company (extra points if company is male)!
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One of my cats loves the plastic rings that come on the top of large plastic bottles (1.89 Litres) He tosses it in the air, shoots it like a hockey puck or carries it around in his mouth.
I can’t help but wonder what 4 cats and 4 wooden beads in the bathtub would be like. Some “catter-walling”, I suppose.
Kat
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Hey!
Cool post! I’ll try to do this!!! That kitty in the pic looks like mine, is it yours? =D
-MissMe
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Very cool… We recently moved into a home with wood floors. Our cat has always loved golf balls, and now she loves them even more. The most annoying part though is when she plays with it at night time
We tried bringing the ball upstairs during the night, but if she wants to play, she’ll just knock it down the stairs and play with it (the only wood floors are downstairs)
Gotta love cats!!!
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OMG! That is so funny! My soul-cat, Cricket and I played that same game for YEARS – but we used a crumpled up piece of paper – she loved the sound it made. We called it bathtub hockey! Other than running from window-to-window in the house hunting birds outside, it was her favorite activity!
It is wonderful to know that there are others out there who find so much joy in these small, funny interactions with their pets!
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This is surely one of that hilarious and very interesting game for cats. I would give it a try and see how would our lazy cat perform.. I will ready some treats too just in case..
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My cats have always loved this!! One prefers rounds objects like foil balls, the other prefers straight objects, like bobby pins (and she will steal them from me if I set one down while pinning up my hair-that darn cat!
( I won’t discuss the mice :{ ). We sometimes hear them in the middle of the night having the time of their lives. And one of them Loves to curl up in the sink for her naps!!
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Hi,
I was trying to search for an article i read earlier in the week and can’t find it…. I would suggest a area on the site where you can search by word or blog number…
I wanted to share the article on Watch your language….
Thank you,
Trica.
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Uh oh, my boyfriend is deathly allergic to cats. But we have an evil rabbit. Do you think she’d be interested? She likes to run around rubbing her head on a towel hung from the back of a chair. I’m pretty sure this is the only thing distracting her from plotting world domination.
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Cats are just silly sometimes, when they are playing or practicing hunting skills like these they would often get into trouble. Some cats lean from it and some are just as dumb as a post but I still love him.
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