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 ;)
Eventually 4 or 5 of these rings would wind up under that cabinet, so mom would grab her metal yardstick from the peg in the stairwell to the basement and go fish out the ring dings for Lulu.
Luey caught on quick... the sound of the basement door opening and the metal yardstick being taken off its hook made her run to the cabinet to await mommy digging out all the ring dings.