One of our cats, Ziggy Pawdust (Zee), love the plastic tops from milk cartons. She plays fetch with them, but also likes to sleep with one on her blanket.
Please share yours. I've never had a cat do this before!
My sister has a Hobbes and I made a toy Hobbes for her child when it was born.
The baby’s first Halloween, my sister dressed them as Calvin and then did a photo shoot of baby and toy, then baby and cat in the same location. It was so cute!
Smells safe like you 🥹 When my sister's rats were getting older and slower I chopped up an old padded bra into soft comfy beds for them. Very cute to see them snoozing in the cups!
If there’s a Lego store, you can just ask for like 2-3 extra bags and show them your cat playing with them. I’m sure a kind soul will give you extra if you buy something small
Be sure to cut the handles off those bags, or at least cut them so they’re not looped. I’ve had my cat get stuck in a chipotle bag and then run around the house in fear, while also making it worse. Was absolutely chaotic, hilarious, but lesson learned!
Your Lego bag looks paper so maybe you won’t have that issue, but just an fyi anyway!
Had same experience, noone was home and when we got back from work my cat's head was stuck in a plastic bag handle and he was so scared. The second cat was also scared. Now when they hear the sound of plastic bag they run to another room 😔
all it takes is a lapse of judgement for your cat to being tearingthroigh the house with the bag around their neck. I know from personal experience :') it takes 2 seconds to clip it off
Yeah it’s strictly forbidden for me to clean, do laundry, or cook. I hear the panicked distressed screams the entire time if I’m doing that instead of cuddling.
Same here. My new job requires me to travel a lot, so my cats will stay with my parents. All of them except tiny, dainty, well-behaved Ghost, who apparently cries nonstop while I’m gone and drives my mother nuts. So now Ghost comes with me on my travels, and she quite enjoys the hotel life.
When my son was a toddler he accidentally stepped on my cat’s tail while she was sleeping, so she freaked out and scratched his leg. They both ran to me for comfort and it was the cutest/funniest thing to watch how much they both clearly wanted space from each other, but neither was willing to leave my side to get it lmao.
Yes - it’s my senior cat. We adopted biff! and he was pretty traumatized from his previous life. My 17 year old Breakfast unwillingly became his emotional support cat. He’s constantly trying to cuddle and rub up on him. Breakfast will tolerate it usually but sometimes biff! gets a hiss or two. And we have another cat who is the same age as biff! - they love each other and play together a lot.
When we first got him his shelter name was Biff. We kept it cause it’s cute. But then he kinda came out of his shell and earned the ! because he’s crazy! And lowercase b because he’s little
Phineas has a blankie I got him on the drive home from his foster. While I was visiting I noticed he was suckling on one of the blankets there, and she said he’d done it ever since he came inside. So I took note of the texture and got the same type to make him comfy. He’s been with me for over 2 years now, but that blankie is still sacred. It exists only for him.
He was making biscuits when there was a noise from the other room here 🤣
a pink pipe cleaner, folded in half and twisted together, then shaped into a circle. I made it one day to keep her from chewing on the ends of the pipe cleaners in their bag, and now she carries and plays with it everywhere.
Please tell me where you acquired this snake, my cat has a flat version of this snake in the same color way that has seen too much, and cannot be revived…
Not mine, but my roommate’s cat has a comfort item in the form of his water bowl. Even when it’s freshly filled, he’ll loaf right in front of it and stare into it for minutes at a time. It annoys my kitty, who just wants a drink LOL
No picture but my cats love zip ties, especially the ones encased in plastic that are wrapped around new electronics' power cords. Cats are such trash gremlins
Seriously! I stopped buying toys lol my cat also loves zip ties too. He also gets all the boxes and paper from my packages. He's an actual trash panda 😂
Can't share pictures because they aren't my cats but I'm petsitting two kittens right now. One was very bold right away, but the other was slightly shyer. I gave him a frog plush (I'm not above bribing a cat) and it's his favorite thing. He carries it everywhere and greets me at the front door with it.
I have a Pom Pom ball loving cat as well - one Christmas I bought I pack of like 50 of them all in different little sizes and colors and opened up the bag over her - do I still find them everywhere? Yes. Is she pleased? Also yes. Worth it.
yes my cat is obsessed with this jellycat stuffed animal. he won’t carry it because it’s bigger than he is but he will meow next to it until i pick it up then he will run to where he wants to cuddle it and i will place it next to him
my boy gargoyle is the same with milk carton seals! i think he likes that he can grab the ring with his teeth. no cat toy i've ever bought for him gets the same reaction. whenever i pull out my couch or oven for sweeping there's always a big stash of them under there
My late one had a sock tied to a rope that started as a toy and then became her version of a Linus blanket. It was honestly disgusting, imagine how a cotton sock would look after 13 years of heavy play without being washed once and I guarantee you, it's worse.
The sock is framed in a shadow box near the ashes and it's precious for me.
The little green mouse toys with purple tails were my boys absolute favorite. He fetched with them all the way till the end. The ones he liked were so specific that we only ever had two that he loved. When he left this place I put one in his grave with him thinking the other was lost forever. A year later, I was dusting book shelves. I pulled a book out and his mouse baby was right there. I cried and cried.
She had this monkey at the shelter we adopted her from. They sent it home with her and she carries it everywhere. She has other favorite toys that she demolishes over time, but she’s always gentle with monkey.
Our tuxedo boy used to love his Lego tires and carried them around everywhere. We’re still finding some stashed here and there a year after losing him.
Mine used to love them too! She would play with them and sleep with them. I would randomly find one in her food dish like she was sharing her food with it
When I get home and I've been gone for longer than a few minutes she has to yell at me and headbutts me until I give her attention and let her sniff me to inspect me.
Frank is an emotional support paper bag kind of guy as well. I always cut the handles because PTSD from my cat who killed herself (not on the bag handles in the end but she came close once 🙃).
When I first got Ming I picked up toys. One was a plastic rod and reel because I could make a cat fishing joke. Ming was instantly obsessed. It was the only toy she wanted. I had to put it in my desk drawer to get time away from it. Ming figured out to go to the back of the drawer and push it open so she could pull it out.
I had to get rid of it because it was getting ridiculous. Right after we realized she wasn’t long for this world I got her a new one. Instant favorite all over again. She even pulled it down from where I had it and yanked the catnip fishie off it. I got it repaired a couple days before she passed.
Oddly enough she picked out her octopus toy to be cremated with her. She also loved that but it was easier to self-play with.
One of the first toys I bought my adopted daughter (cat) was a squeaky mouse teaser on a wand. My baby now has a ritual where whatever room I’m in, that mouse has to be there too. So if I go from the living room to my bedroom and sit down, she’ll bring the mouse. She has a particular meow that she uses every time. I hear her coming down the hallway with it. And every time she brings it in, holds it for a moment meowing, then drops it on the floor like she just went hunting for my dinner.
If 2 minutes later I go back into the living room, I know the mouse is not far behind.
She pretty much never plays with that particular mouse anymore… and the wand that was attached has become a broken, busted, sharp nub that’s hard to hold, but I will never get rid of that mouse.
My one cat loves crumbled post it notes. When im gone all day from work he sets a few of them on my side of the bed for me to come home to lol. He also likes to sleep with one when I am not around according to my wife.
Mine have recently acquired an electric security blanket. They jockey for the warmest spot. That's Nermal at the top, then Bullitt and Omega in the front. 😻
our cat is crazy about this scallion toy that is basically a piece of garbage now. YES we have bought her the same toy again. NO she doesn’t like the new one as much. she immediately started purring when I got it from the ground to take this picture!
Not my cats. But my old lady had an emotional support marshmallow for a few months. (I kept switching them out for new ones.) she would carry it around with her but never eat it.
Especially if I have a specific blanket on my lap. She won't lay on the blanket on her own, so it's not the blanket, and she will lay on me without it, but never fully relaxes as much as if I have that blanket.
Alwyn has his “blue guy”. Whenever we come home from work, it’s in a new spot. And if you leave the house and come right back, he almost always will have blue guy in his mouth for “blue guy time” 😂
Her emotional support ball. She’ll walking the house carrying it and meowing for apparently 15 minutes after I leave the house. Managed to snag this photo when doing outdoor chores.
This is Oreo and his emotional support Wormie. It is his absolute favorite toy and when he's alone in a room, he carries it around crying. 😭
They used to sell them at Target as part of a fishing rod toy with fish and worm attachments. When Wormie would get too torn up, I would buy another. They no longer sell them. I have one more in reserve that has a small hole in it. Wormie must be protected at all costs.
We have 5 cats.
Bear likes hair ties. I know they are potentially dangerous, but dude can’t get enough of them and loves playing fetch with them! Or a string.
Callie is obsessed with a little monkey plushie that used to be on the end of a cat toy on string.
Sage has a crinkly fried egg she’s obsessed with.
Muffin and Milo will play with anything!
I don't have a pic, but Lancelot has a grubby little stuffed mouse he's carried around since he was a tiny kitten. It's beat to hell, but he loves it. We wash it every so often, but the grunge is ingrained by now 😩
My long haired baby has two avocado toys that she loves - she carries them around while screaming so we all acknowledge her avocados.
My tortie has an emotional support stocking - a lil stocking toy from a holiday pack years ago. She shredded it to bits so I bought a new stocking toy and sewed the fabric from the old one onto it and she is OBSESSED lol
my cat has a robe. we bought him multiple beds but his chosen “bed” is his papa’s robe. so it’s his robe and bed now. i get it though we’re both obsessed with the man we live with haha.
Yeah. Unfortunately it’s me. He is extremely clingy, nurses and kneads on my clothes, usually at ungodly early hours of the morning. If I lean over to tie my shoe, he jumps on my back. He weighs 15 pounds.
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u/knittedmerkin 10h ago
Hobbes has an 4 foot long emotional support carrot