Hungry Cat.. Angry Bird… Angry Cat…
One can never plan too early for dinner, so Zee is looking through his host of toys to find one suitable to offer to the “I want to eat now Gods.”
If you have a cat, chances are you have cat toys. Or, like in the case of my cats, hundreds of cat toys. I always assumed they had a basic purpose – to be a toy for the cat to play with. Naturally, as usual, I was proven wrong. Turns out in our house the toys have magical powers and are used as some sort of bartering system to bribe the Gods from above to do things for the cats. For example, a toy strategically placed by the back door is done so that eventually it will cause a powerful enough surge that the door will open, letting the cats go outside for an adventure (admittedly, the power of this toy rarely works but it doesn’t stop the cats from trying just in case!).
The most powerful toy is one that can cause a food dish to be filled and apparently it really works, because without fail, at some point or another the FOOD DISHES WILL BE FILLED! Heavens only knows that if the cats don’t assist it this process we probably would never remember to feed them… Clearly the incessant meowing for 15 minutes prior to feeding time, the dizzying circling of them around my legs to let me know they are hungry, and the fact that THEY GET FED EVERY SINGLE DAY LIKE CLOCKWORK are not enough to make certain they will be fed.
Zee looks completely perplexed… I put this dang Angry Bird in my food dish over an hour ago… why has it not been filled with food yet? Are the magic powers in this toy broken? Work Angry Bird, work!
Mum has to laugh, because Zorro had a magic mousie when he was a kitten : he carried it everywhere, and it was put into dishes one hour before dinner time every day (and it looked and smelled so awful that Mum said it finally went for a forever trip in the big black hole of the dustbin as Zorro lost interest for it…) ! MOL ! I have myself a magic toy that make humans play with me. Purrs, Pixie
OMC this is sooooooooo true! Poor deprived kitties!!! xoxoxo
dood….never…knot now knot ever knot never ever now ever…trust a BURD ta due…
a thing…cept bee stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid, rood,
noizee, caca droppin bug infested flyin….things…
put a mouze in yur dish N see what happens…promize !!
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Love it. Poor Zee, we don’t know why that Angry Bird thing didn’t work! 🙂
Really cute post, Deb. Kitties certainly show us new sides to their personality every day!
Faraday: HOLY CAT, so that’s where food comes from??? MOMMY, I NEEDZ ME an ANGRY BIRD TOY, STAT!
Awww… NONE of my toys do that. Of course, I’VE never done that. I’ve never put a toy in a dish. I should try.
Purrs,
Nissy #Niss4Senate – tell the PM, today.
Never had a cat do this but; I have one that buries hers or knocks the dish. LOL. Sounds like a smart things for a kitty to do.
We leave toys in our food dish even when there is food in it. We like our toys to taste like our kibbles. MOL We also put toys in the water dish. Mom really doesn’t like when we do that, but then we know where they are when we’re ready for them!
I like to put my mousie in my food dish. Once I put it in the water dish. That wasn’t a very good idea. The mousie drowned. ~Zoey
I haven’t tried the magic toys. Usually I walk back and forth to my empty food bowl until mum gets dizzy and fills it up again.
That’s so clever! Our food bowls don’t stay down after we eat, so the only place we can put our offerings is the water bowl… and they tend to drown in there.
Merlin used to have a magic food bowl squirrel long ago. Maybe it’s time for new toys 😉 P.S. even though I’m not blog hopping as much I have been thinking of you and send purrs.
Valentina does a drop and roll. I call this the Sideshow Bob act. She’d be great if I ever find myself in need of extra cash–I can take her out and she will drop and roll for just about anyone, I think. Bessie and Lulu wait together and Lulu will let out one very long meeeeeeeoooooooooorrrrrrrwww until her meal is served. No one here bothers with bringing me their toys. Not for food. I love the bird in the bowl. That’s adorable! 🙂