I bought some cute widdle mice stuffed with catnip and he played with them for 2 hours. Now he’s passed out on the floor - guess the mice wore him out?
I also bought this new type of cat litter called Pearl something - but that was to make me happy.
I actually prefer dogs to cats, but the landlords in the city I live in are anti-dog, so I’m stuck with cats for a few more years.
M and P enough for ya?
That’s cute. Just hope it’s not from the catnip itself.
Definitely mundane, absolutely pointless. But, hey, that’s what we’re here for.
I lost my little itty bitty kittie. 
I fear she’ll never come back.
Ahh, that sucks!
Speaking of which, I get to see my kitties this weekend!!!
(I’ve been away all summer)
I don’t know if you’ll be happy with the Silica Pearls Cat Litter. Most people I’ve talked to who have used it don’t like it. But hey, it’s so much fun to watch a kitty with a new toy! Mine are a blast with their toy mice.
My best kitty sleeps on my head at night.
Let us know howthe “pearls” work. We use a scoopable, and my two old cats think its dandy.
I used the cedar pellet stuff for a while and I LOVED it. Scoop the poop, the pee just turns the cedar pellets into sawdust, which you can either flush in small quanties or throw out. My cat, however, used it for a year and then refused to use it any longer. I don’t know why, but we’re back to clumping. Feh.
So how does the pearl stuff work, anyway?
I miss my kitties, and I’ve only been away from them now for two hourse…
I use the scoopable clumpable stuff myself, and it works great. Forgot the name, it’s made for multiple cats. I’d like to know how the Pearl stuff works though.
Glad to see someone is enjoying their kitties cuteness.
Everytime I give my two little ladies catnip in a tinfoil ball or just spread out on the minks tails they play with, they go nuts for about three hours chasing ghosts around the house before they finally find my lap and fall asleep.
Awwww, how cute.
One of my cat’s favorite toys is ‘circus mice.’ They don’t have catnip in them, but they look just like those kind. They rattle when you shake them and she just loves it. She pushes it all around the linoulem floor for hours.
My other cat loves the good old fashioned string game. Run around the house with a string and she follows wildly striking at it.
Aren’t kitties great!!
I like those pearl things…they are a pain to sweep up though, get a deep litter pan.
Our vet gave us a catnip-stuffed fish after their last checkups. Those cats take that thing all over the house. I’ve found it on the stairs, in my bathtub, in my daughter’s crib, behind the TV.
Litter Pearls: I love them. They completely remove the stink from the litter boxes. And no more @!#?@! clay dust that’s murder to sweep up. And when the pearls turn into yellow sludge, they’re ready to change.
I use a 7.2 lb bag every 2-3 weeks for my 3 cats. Recently, one brand was only $10 for said bag.
Someone mentioned cedar pellets. I hated those things. The cats would trail those everywhere, and I’d step on them and almost fall as they rolled out from underfoot. Worse than banana peels.
My cat apparently enjoyed the hell out of those mice last night. (Did I mention they come 3 to a pack?) When I awoke this morning there were 3 little pink felt mouse ears on my living room floor. Oddly, the mouse with the red ears is not yet hearing impaired, although his neck looks like a vampire visited me last night.
I have a radio/buzzer alarm clock. I am also a bitch to get up in the morning, so I must place the clock outside of arm’s reach, else I’ll just switch it off and go back to bed. I have tried in the past to tune the radio to music I cannot stand with the volume up full bore, but if the DJs are talking when the alarm goes off I incorporate it into my dreams. Instead I use the nasty beeping sound - it’s hard to recreate in pixels but it sounds something like:
BEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHH
BEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHH
BEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHH
BEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHH
My cat apparently cannot stand the sound of it, so if I do not move when the alarm goes off he stands next to my head and stares at me. If I still do not move, he extends his paw and bats at my nose. If I STILL do not move, he extends his claws just a little bit and kind of…not scratches, exactly, more like gently sticks his claw into my skin. That usually does the trick.
One of my former cats was exactly like this. It is so cute! I’d lay in bed on purpose, just to see how far she would go. I don’t know about your cat, but mine licked my eyelids after a while. It starts to hurt if you let them do it long enough.
Oh, lord, I guess it was inevitable that people would start talking about their cats…
If you want to make cats REALLY happy, there’s an herb out there they like more than catnip. It’s called valerian, it’s primarily used as a sedative for peoples, and it stinks to high heaven. You get used to it after awhile, though.
One of my cats has this habit of trying to wake me up randomly at night, walking on the room and miaowing. All I have to do to shut her up is to ask Pippin (my other, alpha cat) to take care of her and he’ll chase her out of the room.
It’s really quite funny.
My cats couldn’t care less about catnip. A big yawn for them both. If only I could buy toy mice that smelled like, well, real mice. My younger cat has caught 3 in the past 2 months (damn radiator pipe holes). He plays with them in the bathtub (his favorite place to play with everything) and tires them out. Then my husband puts out a humane trap, the mouse runs it, the door closes and the mouse gets a one-way trip to the park to romp freely.
My older cat is mostly toothless, and she can’t be bothered with mice. She likes to play with ribbon instead. She’s extraordinarily active for a 14 year old with bad vision and only 3 or 4 teeth. Sure, she sleeps about 23 hours a day, but for those two hours she’s awake, she’s all over the place!
Uh, I guess I should stop now. I could talk about them for hours…and no one wants that now, do they?
Litter pearls? What the heck is that? Never heard of it.
I got my kitty about a month ago. She’s a sweetie. She thinks she’s a dog. She lays on her back to have her tummy scratched and even plays fetch with straws. (She has a major straw fetish.)
~Tracie
Are the pearls flushable? We use a flushable clumping litter which I think is aces. I can’t stand to be constantly bagging up the non-flushable stuff and toting it out to the garage trash, so I’ll stick with my current litter if the pearls can’t be flushed.
I’ve never used the litter pearls, but I’ve been using the new Tidy Cat Crystals for 3 months now, and I LOVE them. I have only one cat and other than scooping out the solid waste, you don’t have to change the litter box for a FULL MONTH with these things. It’s $10 a box, but that lasts 2 changes with my cat, and it controls odor so much better than ANYTHING else that I’ve tried, it’s definately worth it.
Oddly enough, We tried the pine pellets with the same result. He used them for about 2 months, and then refused to go near the box until we got rid of it.
K.
I love to hear kitty stories.
My kitten-man LOVES money. Anytime anyone brings money out our cat is on it. So, instead of buying him toys we just wad up dollar bills every once in a while. We call it his allowance. He goes crazy. He especially loves to be rubbed with them. We have tried to train him to pickpocket our friends (hee hee) but it hasn’t worked yet.
I’ll have to look for some valerian, our cat is sort of lukewarm on catnip.
If your shower has a door, not a curtain, put a ping-pong ball in there. It’s like racquetball for cats!
We had 2 ancient cats - she made it to 17, he to 16 - that would lay on my chest in the morning, waiting for me to wake up and feed them. If they thought I was still sleeping, they’d be quiet. Once they thought I might be awake, though, they were very vocal, calling me a lazy, no-good, slug-a-bed. Being able to sleep in on the weekends was a luxury in our house sometimes.