Yesterday my wife commented about the number of toys our spoiled little pup had strewn throughout the house. I suggested the over/under at 15. She took the under. This morning I counted 14 toys throughout various rooms of our house.
So how many toys does your pet(s) have lying about on the floors, under furniture, in their crate, etc?
I keep a toy box and regularly toss everything into it, but Kosh likes to upend the whole thing and it’s dumped right now. About ten toys visible, which means I’m probably going to have to go spelunking under the couch soon. Kosh will tell me when, as soon as he notices some toy under there which will immediately become THE BEST, MOST DESIRABLE TOY EVAR and he will angst until I go get it for him. Diva.
I don’t know how to count this, because everything is a cat toy. The empty boxes from Amazon? Cat toy. Those 3D printed gears on my desk? Cat toy. The whirly thing inside my milk foamer? Cat toy (he stole it while I was cleaning it). It’s basically infinite.
Does “knocked under the dresser” count as “out?” Because that’s where most of Tango’s mice seem to end up. The other cats aren’t big toy players.
Though we spend a few minutes, every few days, picking up cat toys and putting them back in a storage box (with an open top, so the cats can pull out the toys they want), at any given time other than just after toy round-up, there’ll be at least a dozen toys strewn around the house.
If we count toys that have been knocked under furniture, the number may well be in the hundreds. 
A lot less now. My son recently taught the dog to “put away his toys”. So now what happens is, dog drops toy in lap, human throws it, dog retrieves it then promptly puts it in the toy box. Dog will then sit there by the toy box whining until you give him a treat.
A better question would be “how many aren’t out?” Catboi distributes his possessions during the night, fishing them out of his two cornucopias. He has around 40 toys, about 10 of which aren’t hidden away at any time. He also has 2 cat trees, a cat space capsule, 4 scratchers, a cat bed, and a cushion in front of the heater. Really, we’re lucky to be allowed to use the house.
I just counted four.
Helena likes big stuffed animals. She has a toy box and I will periodically pick up whatever she has out and put it in the box. She’ll then carefully select something within reach. I also rotate out toys to keep things fresh and interesting. As you can tell from the pictures below, she’s an old lady and I don’t have to worry about her eating my couch if she’s under-stimulated, but she does really enjoy toys and loves having a “new” one.
For Christmas, I got her a bunch of the Petsmart charities toys, which are large stuffed animals and are like $5 per toy. Her favorite-ever toy is one of those from last year and is very shabby now, so I knew she would enjoy them. So the ones currently out are:
-Her rocket ship (containing several small squeaky aliens. The idea being that she can pull the aliens out and I can just stuff them back in, but she doesn’t pull them out and just carries the rocketship.
-Her cow- just a big floppy cow. I got it along with the Christmas toys because I thought she would enjoy it. She does.
-Her dinosaur from Christmas
-Her precious and beloved llama, the first toy she had here when I got her last year.
The 14 year old foster dog cares not for toys. The K9 regent, however, has a good dozen spread around the house at any given time and carries one in her mouth constantly like it’s her baby or something. Occasionally, one makes it outside or a grotty tennis ball finds its way in. The bald pineapple seems to be her fave, followed closely by “the cheerleader.”
When I look at those pictures, I believe for a moment in a benevolent universe.
OMG! look at that face – what a cutie! My wife is mortified by doggies’s faces turning white, I say Join the club my beasties!
There are only two, the automatic laser pointer thing (best toy ever - she asks me to switch it on and we’ve had it for well over a year) and a duck thing from a Christmas stocking. Oh, actually there’s a wiggly cotton worm on a stick thing hung up over the room divider (also from a Christmas stocking).
Mostly my cat prefers to play with tinfoil, scrap paper, etc. Catnip isn’t her bag, man. She also rejects catbeds and prefers to just change her sleeping spot every month or so, so when we get a cardboard box the right size (she’s a tiny cat who dislikes jumping and climbing too much) we keep it for her till she gets bored of it, or leave a large envelope on the chaise longue after she’s chosen it as her current spot, etc.
Ever December she spends a month sleeping in a pile of tinsel that I put down intending to decorate with it, then acknowledge it’s now hers.
No cat scratcher because she goes outside for a bit every day.
This.
There is almost nothing in this house that is officially a cat toy; only a couple of twists of paper tied onto string hanging from chairs.
Almost everything in this house is unofficially a cat toy; including the cats.
I have no idea how many pens and pencils are somewhere on the floor at any given moment, some of them undoubtedly under things.
(bolding mine)
So YOU’RE the other person who (correctly) uses the term. Solidarity, mon frère!
Vienna has more toys than I ever had as a kid. Dozens and dozens, and they’re all out, either on the living room floor or the kitchen or on the stairs or in our bed or shoes. Except the black mice. We get little catnip mice in packages of five, 3 white and 2 black. She loves playing with the black ones, and they disappear. Occasionally under furniture, but more often simply gone.
Helena is totally AWWWWWW!!!
We have a 9 month old kitten and of course everything is a toy. His favorite toy is a specialized hobby tool that I use every single day and all the time. The jerkface steals it every time I forget and leave the room but at least I have learned the sound of him knocking it around.
Our housekeeper comes once a week and tosses all of the toys into another cat’s favorite sleeping box as she is working. The box is usually half full when she leaves and she doesn’t move the appliances or open the closets which means she only got less than half of them.
If you has asked a month ago, there’d have been one more. One of our Christmas tree ornaments is a tiny teddy bear. We hang is high on the tree. Vienna knows it’s up there, and every year she jumps up and gets it, without disturbing the rest of the tree. Then she carries it around the house like it’s her kitten.
We have toys all over the place. I’m amazed I haven’t stepped on Kizzy’s current favorite chew toy.
Ha! My wife just got Lincoln a hunk of antler for his 2d birthday. Damn, that thing is loud when he slams it around on the wood floors. But I bet you just picked that one up outside, no?
Yep, deer antler is a local find. Previously my gf purchased several small pieces of elk antler that ere $20 a piece.
Kizzy tosses antlers in the air, enjoying the clatter when they fall.
