Ever play bottlecap soccer with your cat?

[RevCheesehead]

Oreo has invented a new game. It's just like tabletop football, but using the cap from a plastic soda bottle! Damn, I wish I had a camera! :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. I bet that's seriously cute

All Lucy likes to play is "Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill the Shoelace!"

Ever see that old newsreel footage of the cat playin' ping pong? That'd be so cool.

[RevCheesehead]

2. Binky does the shoelace thing, too.

And if I have on my leather shoes, she goes nuts. Something in the taste, I guess.

Roo was a fantastic baseball player. I tied a large jinglebell on the end of a long string, thinking I'd just drag it on the floor. Instead, he reached up and swatted the thing. Several times. It was one of his favorite games. (He was so cool - a dog in feline form.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Lucy used to bat at stuff

but she lost interest in that.

Hey, y'know those big Cat Entertainment Centers where they can crawl through stuff and kip in crannies and stuff? I was thinkin' yesterday of makin' one for Lucy, but I dunno what they're called, so I dunno how to google a photo of one to get ideas.



WTF... maybe they are called Cat Entertainment Centers. :shrug:

[RevCheesehead]

4. My SIL calls them "Kitty Condos"

http://www.angelicalcat.com/

a do-it-yourself project: http://amby.com/cat_site/cattree.html

I just googled "cat trees" - lotsa stuff there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Yeah, that's them

Know what, though? I betcha I'd build it and then she'd just stick up her tail at it. :eyes:

I was thinkin' of somethin' sorta like this:

[RevCheesehead]

6. Save yourself the trouble...

just get her a cardboard box. My cats love those the best!

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Actually, the idea started

as stacking cardboard boxes, duct-taping 'em together and cutting strategic holes between 'em.

I'm gonna go sleep now. You be good to you, k? :hug: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

12. Will do.

And thanks - you know - for everything. :hug::loveya:

[havocmom]

16. Neighbor built a great one for dogs & cats!

He had 2 tiny poodles and married a woman who had taken in 3 cats. He made a very heavy plywood box for the base and that was the dogs' 'fort'. Several shelf levels and cubbies
above for the cats. The dogs would 'hide' and the cats would do the commandos coming down ropes from helicopters thing and try to take the fort. It was hysterically funny to watch.

The heavy base was a fine idea as the cats were young and VERY active. They needed a firm anchor. After the twice daily assault on Fort Poodle, everybody found a spot on the contraption and took a nap. Ah, peace!

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Fort Poodle

:rofl:

I'm getting an image of "F Troop."

[havocmom]

19. During winter Olympics a few years back, the'poodle girls'

took strange interest in watching the bobsled events on the tellie. Jay was trying to convince us 'the girls' were going to compete. Called them Team Poodle for months. Strange man.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. But clever

Prolly married you for your feet.

[havocmom]

21. Not my husband, neighbor and his bride was a neighbor too

I am trying to ge Havocdad to build a cat condo like Jay built. Only one cat in our home, but SHE moves furniture. Figure we'll need to keep the thing upright.

Oh, were you the guy with the foot thing? Was tryin' to remember which one of the DU reprobates that was when I re-posted that pic last night :rofl:

You'd be amazed what toes can do :evilgrin: Come to think of it, maybe you would be the one person around here who wouldn't be surprised at all ;) Lets just say, I usually wear shoes that are easy to kick off and I LOVE restaurants with floor length tablecloths heh heh heh

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. That wasn't me!

I swear!




:hide:

[havocmom]

23. Don't make me wave my newly painted toenails at you

Don't make me do that!

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. But it *wasn't!*

Here, lookit!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4905213#4905350



I keep my perversions fetishes kinky thoughts romantic interests in the closet tightly cloaked in shame in the police files between my lovers (as if I ever had any) and me, where they belong.

[havocmom]

25. The thread from last March or April was the one that had me laughing

somebody around here really likes toes. But I can't remember who it was.

Police files? LOL Damn, and all my kin in law enforcement DIED. No peeking in records for meeee anymore. x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Ah, well, see?

I wasn't a Lizard then. Come to think of it, that's about when my "sabbatical" from DU began.

Anyway, some toes are cute. Others aren't. It's about that simple.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Lots of Cat Entertainment Centers here:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/NavResults.cfm?N=2002+113198

[Guava Jelly]

7. My cat will fetch a bottle cap and bring it back like a dog

I wish i could tell you i taught him this cool trick but he started doing it on his own

[RevCheesehead]

8. That is one big cat!

He looks a lot like my Roo did, too. :)

[Guava Jelly]

10. he is a big boy

He was a reserve test cat .I saved him from being iced.
He was bred for animal testing so he is quite quite healthy.
He also loves to tear up toilet paper rolls.
Every once in a while we will move a piece of furniture and find like 8 to 10 bottle caps hidden.
We call it Obies secret stash

[yellowdogintexas]

13. with mine it is those brightly colored rabbit's feet things

which come on keychains ...Thomas adores them.

My younger cats like bottle caps, twist ties and catnip

[ContraBass Black]

9. I prefer to play R/C car tag with my best friend's cats.

I use Zip/Zaps. I used to take turns chasing them and getting chased, until they realized that they could flip the cars over. Now they only chase and pounce.

[politicat]

14. Felt furniture pads, laser pointers, string, pink marabou

We got a sheet of felt furniture pads to go on the feet to protect the floor... but about a third of them had no sticky left. Angel plays with them, and since everything's up off the floor now, she can't really stash them away.

Angel has string that she will bring to anyone she thinks will play with her. It's funny to watch her bring it to new people in the house as an offering.

She also has a piece of hot pink marabou attached to a string and stick that she drags around.

Fuzzy will play with about anything (and this includes glue sticks, dead spider plant leaves, straws) but his one true love is the laser pointer. I had to go buy a carpet for the living room so that Fuzzy could play with his laser. The wood floors are too slick for him, and he wouldn't chase it if he didn't have traction. (and he needs the exercise.) The look in his eyes when he discovered the laser and the carpet was priceless.

[NYdemocrat089]

15. Yes, but not with bottlecaps. n/t

[WolverineDG]

18. Lizzie loved to play with bottle caps

She had a sixth sense about them, especially whenever I opened a bottle of Coke. I would set the bottle cap on the coffee table, well away from the edge so she couldn't see it. She'd come up just under & beside the table. I'd see her two little ears poke over the top of the table, then go back down. Then I'd see her little nose peek up over the side & go back down again. She would then repeat the ears. That was my cue to clear anything off the coffee table that might spill (like my Coke) because a few seconds after the ears made their repeat appearance, **WHAP** went Lizzie's paw, smacking the bottle cap & knocking it clear across the room. Every once in a while when I cleaned up, I'd find little stashes of bottle caps.

I had to put her down this past August. None of my other cats like to play with bottle caps. :cry:

dg

[RevCheesehead]

29. Aww.... sweet Lizzy!

They literally stalk the thing, don't they?

Oreo puts her paw on the cap right away, then sits there until she thinks I'm not watching. And if I dare put my finger on it, she bats me away. I even caught her doing a version of the shell game, hiding it beneath one paw, while pretending to slap it with another. :)

Dogs can't do THAT. :D

[WolverineDG]

30. Touch the toy

and die, infidel! ;)

dg

[electron_blue]

27. oh yeah, I did it for years with milk-rings. And got a few pictures

along the way. Get your camera!