Dear Allmycats,

I like to play with Kitty Tease, which is a long black string on a pole. My meowmom holds the pole and makes a denim belt loop (on the other end of the string) fly back and forth for me to catch. It was a gift to my meowmom and me from the shelter when she adopted me, because it was my favorite there. My meowmom wonders why I need toys at all, because the things I like to play with best are pencils and pens. I like to swat them off meowmom's desk or table. Pencils are better because they bounce if they land on the eraser. I sit on the table and say "murp" till meowmom picks them up, and then I swat them down again! I also like to help wrap presents by thoroughly chewing on the ribbon while meowmom is trying to tie it. I love to play with ribbon or yarn, meowmom has to put those away after we play with them. I also like furry mousies. Meowmom props them up on the cabinet knobs or drawer pulls and I knock them down. In the kitchen I sometimes swat them under the fridge by accident, meowmom hates that but she gets them for me cos she loves me. In the bedroom I knock them onto the rug and under the dresser. Meowmom fetches those for me too. She is my play time helper!

Purrs,
Cassie

P.S., my fur-cousin Milo has some mousies that were sewn for him out of muslin. They're filled with muslin too. He likes to have his people toss them, then he will either swat it around (they have wood floors so his toys slide reeeeeally well) or pick it up in his mouth, put it down somewhere else, and then swat it. He also likes to knock pens or pencils from the desk down onto the floor. He likes golf balls too. We tried to teach him to play with Ping Pong balls but they are too light.