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When cat toys are more fun than baby toys...
My cat Poppy was so supremely smart that she never touched my son's baby toys. Ever. It's amazing, really.
Take a look at a good cat toy (excluding the obvious catnip and Cat Dancers). Typically small. Soft. Biteable. With maybe some feathers or faux hair on it for added flair. Then take a look at a good baby toy (excluding the obvious cars, drivable toys and bouncers). Typically small. Soft. Biteable. With maybe some feathers or faux hair on it for added flair. You see the problem. But as I said Poppy has never touched his toys. My son can be chewing on something that quite honestly I have to wrestle away from him to make sure it isn't a cat toy (Whew, I say, when it turns out to be a billowy hunk of laundry lint on, say, a clove-studded orange left over from Christmas) and my cat will amble by quite disinterested. At night, baby is asleep leaving a veritable treasure trove of baby toys but cat leaves them alone. She has one basket of cat toys that she goes to instead and from this she never strays. Last weekend, my son who is a full-fledged crawler discovered her basket of goodies and by God, it was like Christmas morning! He pulled toy after toy out of this basket with a look of miraculous wonder on his face. Where have these toys been all my life? he seemed to say. And with that, the precious line separating cat toys and baby toys was crossed. I've moved the cat toy basket to a high shelf (which leaves my cat meowing on a daily basis, "Where are my toys?") and am hoping my son has forgotten those toys ever existed (not likely...). Which begs the question: Are cat toys so much better than kid toys? Should I trade in the trips to Toys R Us for PetSmart? Well, at least for now, that's something my son and cat agree on. 0 comments from 0 users
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