January 17, 2010

It's All In How You Look at It

Courtesy of Big Sister, my furry demons received a lovely handful of new toys at Christmas, in particular a grab bag of soft toys and balls. They particularly like the soft toys but the aggression with which they pounce on them (involving teeth, nails, rapid-fire rabbit kicks, sideways skittering and explosive caroming off the walls) is in complete disproportion to the cuteness of the toys. So, to square the pouncing and tearing and disemboweling with the actual look of the toys, we now have:

The Ladybug of Doooooooooooom

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The Purple Flower of Death

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The Butterfly of Global Annihilation

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Posted by Ryan at January 17, 2010 04:57 PM
Comments

I am vewwy afwaid. If you need me I'll be under the covers, hiding from the Butterfly.

Posted by: Elaine on January 17, 2010 06:01 PM

Re the Ladybug - "Nell for Short?"

Posted by: Linda "K" on January 17, 2010 08:30 PM

We have the Chipmunk of Colossal Catastrophe in my house.

Posted by: Kristen on January 17, 2010 11:37 PM

Heh - Jade has a bug that she also likes to throw around from time to time. It makes a crackly sound - as thought it were stuffed with plastic nags that she seems to find especially attractive - at 2:30 in the morning :)

Maybe I should make her some catnip-stuffed balls. If I make her three of them, would that make her a pawn-broker?

Posted by: Robbyn on January 18, 2010 06:35 AM

Heh. I have 2 kitties. Raven hits these types of toys like a ton of bricks. Elvis delicately bats at them

Posted by: Carol on January 18, 2010 10:33 AM

Our 2 cats have *very* different tastes in toys. Maggie only likes glitter balls, which she knocks around and chases with great abandon; Amber prefers paperwads (wadded teabag wrappers) with an occasional swipe at a couple of catnip-stuffed toys.

Posted by: Joy on January 18, 2010 03:06 PM

Are those toys as huge as they look? They appear ginormous in the photos.

Posted by: Seanna Lea on January 19, 2010 01:57 PM

I like how you think! My girls are quite ordinary with their toys. But I have box elder bugs - for which I keep the Rolling Wand of Death! (Others refer to *theirs* as "lint rollers".) Humane? Nope. Effective? Very.

Posted by: dale-harriet in WI on January 23, 2010 10:32 PM
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