Awww Butter, what a beauty you are! As to the mousies in the food and water dish...Ritz is far from a Norwegian Forest cat...just an ordinary Tuxedo marked short hair...but she is great at dumping things in her food and water dish, not the least of which is her "ratty"..a dish rag tied in a knot that she carries around in her teeth. Lately it shows up on the kitchen floor sopping wet...yuk....which means she not only dropped it in the water dish, but somehow fished it out again....into the laundry it goes.

She also has this "routine" with her toys. There are about 5 milk rings, all of which find there way under the same closet door in the same little pile...at night she drags a number of her toys upstairs and into bed, one morning I woke up to find her asleep at the foot of our bed with her paw around the "ratty" (dry this time, thank goodness). I also found a collection of wiffle golf balls stashed under one of the sofas.

She loves the little mice, but after her bout of chewing off the fur (was being withheld food before her spay) and getting sick, I'm afraid to let her play with them. The milk rings, however, have proven to be a wonderful substitute...amazing all the money I've spent on cat toys and she plays with the free ones.

She also tells me when she doesn't approve of a toy I bought....she sniffs it, walks past it and pretends to "cover it up" like it was something distasteful in her litter box....hmmmmm nice editorial comment, Ritzy!