Posted on 09/11/2014 10:36:57 PM PDT by re_nortex
This is not intended as an advertisement or an endorsement of a product. A Harriet Carter catalog arrived today and this picture was on the front cover. I simply thought it captured a typical feline attitude, one of superiority and self-indulgent pleasure.
Please ping the list if you think its justifiable. My usual routine journey to the mailbox was brightened when I saw this picture on a catalog. Since it looks a lot like my cat, it caught my attention.
Should work! I took a pin brush, and clamped two spring clamps onto it’s handle, so it won’t flip over. I just leave it on the carpet and Mao scratches her head on it all the time!
I wonder if they make those for humans.
Well done! If I could that same self-satisfied look of the kittie, I may just get one for me. :)
The big question is this ‘truth in advertising’? I have bought a lot of stuff for my kittehs over the years and I should have saved my money and let them continue to chase all my wine corks around the house. Actually, I am envious as it looks like one very good back scratcher if we could get it blown up to people size. ;)
The tv commercials for these are cheesy. They play the sound of a purring cat over and over, but it sounds more like someone snoring.
Nonetheless, I’d buy one of these if I had cat.
Not for me.
But for the cat.
It just looks like a laboratory bottle brush. If you took a large enough bottle brush and arched its wire stem, you’d get something pretty much like this product. Personally, I doubt my cats would use it.
Recently at Walmart, I saw a kittie servant (otherwise known a human) stocking up on all sorts of toys for her new cat. I tactfully informed her that she was wasting her money on that stuff. I explained that the best things are what she already has: ball up a piece of paper, paper bags, plastic cups, yarn and other miscellany will keep kitties occupied for hours on end. And, of course, potholders when its time for a time for arm-to-paw rasslin'. :)
I think we tried this one and it went over like a lead balloon.
But they loved the box it came in?
During a moment of admitted idiocy on my part (while still a clueless n00b), I bought racing mouse cat toy. He enjoyed watching me unwrap it, putting the batteries again and playing with the box. As for the toy itself? Meh. Lesson learned. Cats are natural born Conservatives and prefer economy.
Mine only likes pipe cleaners. She doesn’t really play with them though.
I think she thinks they’re her babies because she carries them in her mouth and takes them to the food dish.
We have a pipe cleaner loving cat too. She does play with them for hours, carrying them around and playing with them as if they were mice. Lately she is chewing up and destroying my child’s small stuffed animals. Like a dog does,
You are so right-on with your advice to the fellow kittie servant. My two little mensches were playing with something on the floor tonight under the rocking chair, and it turned out to be one of my pens they had knocked off the table. Milk cap rings are also a fav. A fellow cat servant friend buys all sorts of toys for her kitties, and she gives them as presents to my two as well. I have told her the same thing you told the human in Wal-mart, and she does agree, but thinks maybe this time it will be different....
Ahh, my back is sooo itchy ;)
We had a cat that drove us up the wall playing marbles on the kitchen linoleum.
When my meezer was little we put stuffed animals in her bed hoping to make up for the loss of her littermates. One of them was a siamese beanie babie that looked just like her.
When my daughter put it back on her shelf, the kitten would sometimes sit on the shelf next to the toy.
I got one of these, not this particular one but one that has this same arch with a carpeted base on it. My cat likes to scratch and rub against the bristles and sharpen his claws on the base. Sometimes he lays right down under the arch surveying HIS domain. :)
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