{"id":15985,"date":"2016-01-06T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=15985"},"modified":"2016-01-17T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:38:48","slug":"not-really-wordless-wednesday-its-the-simple-things-in-life-that-often-bring-the-greatest-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/not-really-wordless-wednesday-its-the-simple-things-in-life-that-often-bring-the-greatest-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Really Wordless Wednesday – It’s the Simple Things in Life that Often Bring the Greatest Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kizmet poses wistfully in front of a basket overflowing with cat toys dreaming of his elusive, but favorite toy… the pom pom.<\/p><\/div>\n

In our house it would be 100% impossible to hide the fact we have cats. Cat condos, baskets and baskets of cat toys, cat beds, cat pillows, cat blankets, cat food dishes – in every room and every where you look, there is something directly related to making sure our cats are well-loved and taken care of.<\/p>\n

Despite all that, we have one feline housemate, Kizmet, that would give it all up in a heartbeat, but for his favorite thing on earth – pom pom toys. There is not another toy that even remotely compares to his beloved pom pom and he would easily walk away from a meal for a whiff of that glittery round ball. Expensive toys, toys that were designed for cats by scientific engineers, toys dusted with catnip, traditional mouse toys – you name it – NOTHING<\/strong> can take the place in his mind of this cheap, less than pennies to make toy that operates on nothing but his imagination.<\/p>\n

Throughout his life, Kizmet has had many of these pom poms come and go. Typically they last about 4 seconds and then are somehow absconded by UFO’s under the couch, very rarely\u00a0to be seen again. When he inadvertently finds one, his entire body quivers with excitement and his favorite thing is to have you throw the pom pom to him so he can bring it back to you.<\/p>\n

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This is what you get when you move the couch… Doesn’t every self-respecting cat keep a stash of toys that he can’t get to under the couch?<\/p><\/div>\n

This will go on until he either tires out or loses the toy. For Christmas, I decided the best thing I could do was search for a source for these endearing toys and I found one on Amazon<\/a>\u00a0– I ordered a wholesale bag of 100 for less than $5.00, including free shipping, and gave a few of them to him for Christmas. He lit up like a Christmas tree and most amazing of all, here it is January 6th and he still has them. He likes to keep them close by on the couch and will also bring them to me in my office when I am working during the day.<\/p>\n

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This is what 100 pom pom toys looks like. I wanted to show Kizmet all of them for the fun of it, but decided it was best not to. Wouldn’t want to blow his cute little kitty mind, so I’ve got them squirreled away to dole out when he needs a replacement!I<\/p><\/div>\n

Bless his little soul – such a wonderful lesson to be learned that often it’s the simple things in life that bring us the greatest joy.<\/p>\n

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This has been Kizmet since Christmas day, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy Wednesday all and what is your cat’s favorite toy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our house it would be 100% impossible to hide the fact we have cats. Cat condos, baskets and baskets of cat toys, cat beds, cat pillows, cat blankets, cat food dishes – in every room and every where you look, there is something directly related to making sure our cats are well-loved and taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,365,3,1093,1100],"tags":[175,1265,286,1087,26],"class_list":["post-15985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-behavior","category-cat-humor","category-inspiration-healing","category-kizmet","category-wordless-wednesday","tag-cat-behavior","tag-cats","tag-cats-playing","tag-pom-pom-toys","tag-wordless-wednesday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_1619.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15985"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15985\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}