Originally posted by slick

I'm so sorry for laughing....but it's the visual....cats and wine corks. LOLOLOLOL
Slick, I'm going to try to get pictures of her playing one of these days. She usually likes to do this in the dead of the night and I'm too pooped to get up and try to get pictures.

On the middle landing of our stairs, we have a hollowed out cottonwood tree stump that someone gave us as a present. It is beautifully carved and shaped. Well, over the 20+ years we've lived there, we've thrown our wine and champagne corks into it where they've collected. Kuhio didn't bother them for 17 years but Halo is fascinated by them. On one side of the stump/bowl is a hole where a branch must have grown out. Halo, puts her paw in there and fishes around until she snags a cork and then she pulls it out and rolls it down the stairs. Because their shape is irregular, she particularly enjoys the champagne corks. She can never quite predict how it's going to bounce. So, several times a night you hear: thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump (there are 8 stairs) followed by a TWANG as it hits the heat register at the bottom of the stairs.