thanks for all of your comments I love my little furrball I don't know about how Japanese people view their cats, but I have been to the one pet store in our area and it is just disgusting. There is stuff everywhere and the pets that they do sell are in tiny little cages.... it's really disheartening to go in there. One of my Japanese coworkers has a cat ("FiFi") so I'll have to ask him about that.
Yes, Boomer loves to throw his toys up in the air. I try to play with him, but after just a few seconds he decides that he wants to just play happily by himself
Yes, my mouth is feeling much better Now I just have to deal with the annoyance of getting food stuck in the extraction sites lol it doesn't hurt, it's just annoying.

Boomer appreciates all of the compliments and gave me a stern talking to about how long it has been since I bought him a new toy. I apologized and promised that it would never happen again