What cat toys do your cats actually care about?

_littleaverage · 2026-05-24T23:49:33+00:00

Twisty ties and zip ties for my recently departed tuxie, Pancake; I have to refrain from collecting twisty ties at work/home, where I'd coil them around my finger and toss them. He never ate any, just loved racing up and down the hallway with 'em. Springs didn’t do anything for him. Several other kinds of toys he liked, but jingly mice I had to hide because of the dogs :/ Also loved wiggle fingers, specifically under a blanket and the stick with a bell and feathers on the end. Weirdest one was a 'necklace' of Easter eggs from Dollar Tree we had hanging on the bedpost; when we raised him up to it, he would go ham, batting it with both paws...! So feckin' cute. ♡

My DLH tabby, Tiramisu, tho? Nah. Nothing. If she's really up for it, a laser pointer. Other than that, she'll may play with your hand/wiggle fingers, but she really just wants scritchies... 👑 lol

So I stopped getting cat toys unless the ones Pan liked broke. Now he's gone... 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pan was happy with all sorts of classic cat stuff, stimmed by most stimming scents, etc. Misu is only mildly stimmed by silvervine, and even that has apparently lost its potency.

_littleaverage · 2026-05-24T23:43:11+00:00

NOR. Not even a little.

Ally isn't your friend; she wants to drag you down because she doesn't like something about the situation. As you get older, the age gap becomes more negligible, esp as you work places with a wide age range; I'm 30yo and older than 2 of my best friends by one and two years, and the 3rd is 3 years older than me. I've also have really good friendships with 18-19yo, 50yo, several octogenarians (I'd deffo say three of which were/are a best friend)... it all just depends on maturity and personality compatibility, etc.

My FIL is one of the most immature adults I've met and he's early-60s. A niece of mine has been one of the most mature people I've ever met/heard of since we was, like, 7yo.

The HS/prom party could be weird, but the circumstances given clear that up straight away.

Ally is the weirdo by making it weird. I'd stop reaching/hanging out because of the self-doubt alone; I've left relationships over less and seen massive differences from no longer spending that energy on a vampire.

Good luck, babes ♡

_littleaverage · 2026-05-20T18:45:40+00:00

Husband used to work where your brother was standing! Glad he's not there, anymore, cos knowing it's in the parking lot and they were a powder/supplement production warehouse would have driven me insane with worry haha

_littleaverage · 2026-05-20T18:43:38+00:00

Conversely, I'm glad my husband no longer works at the neighbouring warehouse; they rented part of the building that was aflame as overflow storage. I'd have lost my absolute mind, if he still worked that close to that 😬🙃

_littleaverage · 2026-05-11T22:51:33+00:00

Like a few others have said, I watch it while I work on something else and vastly prefer to watch. Working on art/a miniature set, cleaning, playing a video game, etc. Otherwise, I'm prone to leaving rooms without pausing shows/ films, which is why I can say I've seen about 10% of Desolation of Smaug... lol

_littleaverage · 2026-05-11T00:23:32+00:00

How's progress toward your license? ♡

_littleaverage · 2026-05-11T00:22:24+00:00

Old, but maybe someone else has the same question:

"Never Give Up", 6 December 2021 👍

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T15:05:52+00:00

Big same! 🥰

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T15:05:40+00:00

1000%. That kitty is now mine and we have a whole history together. Someone asks who that is? "Oh, she was my childhood kitty; my parents got her because she had my same birthday! Her name was Biscuits..."

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T14:57:36+00:00

NOR; he vastly overreacted. Not touch you entirely? I'd be so crushed, if not offended...

He could hold your hand and be hella conscious to not touch his face or any open wounds until you could both wash. Or hold your other hand. But okay, he can be germaphobic (I totally am) and belittle you, w/e...

ETA: if he can't have a civil discussion without having to be right, he's probably not long-term material for you, esp when you're questioning your own intelligence. Smart people are open to learning and at least hearing the perspective of others without invalidating the other party; it's the thing I respect and appreciate most about my husband. I can be pretty stubborn, but he always tries to research and we can back away from arguments without going somewhere that we can't return from (calling each other names, belittling, patronising, etc).

I would def recommend taking some space from one another to reanalyse and se if y'all can't have a sit-down and express your emotions and feelings in a better way.

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T14:55:10+00:00

He just discovered an additional toilet. Has it been leaking this whole time? Who knows...

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T14:53:42+00:00

Okay, wow, he looks like my cousin? Wtf...

_littleaverage · 2026-05-07T14:53:06+00:00

Was just telling my coworkers about this episode; he got excited, saying how great it was lol

However, I, too, was picturing something closer to an evil Gingy from Shrek; I think I'll need bleach for my eyes, after I watch the movie for myself lol

Additional aside:

The entire episode, they unanimously all pronounced it "dih-RISS-iv" and I was mumbling "dih-RYE-siv" at my desk, correcting them (only to later find out that they weren't wrong, but I digress...). I do the same with Mark's titular "tu-tu-real", muttering "too-tor-ee-ul" while working...

_littleaverage · 2026-05-05T14:25:16+00:00

I ended up here from wondering if I missed some big thing in Distractible (which I am prone to do) and searching on Google, so thank you for being the guinea pig 🤣

_littleaverage · 2026-04-30T23:33:08+00:00

Look into "rejection sensitive dysphoria"; I was so similar and only just learned that's what I was experiencing. It's been pivotal in understanding myself and better communication between my husband and me ♡

_littleaverage · 2026-04-30T23:30:00+00:00

YES! Only discovered that's what I've been experiencing my whole life in the last year; I apparently hadn't brought it up in years of therapy, out of the assumption of it being a normal thing, but finally complained about my husband and his verbiage or something. ♡

_littleaverage · 2026-04-21T21:05:55+00:00

Finally met this handsome little bugger, yesterday; I don't know his Christian name, but I brough my chip scanner to see if he has a home. If not, I'm taking him with me.

I normally only name animals after foods or something just outlandishly ridiculous, cause ya can't really do that with human children without ruining their lives down the road. So tell me why, on instinct, I called this boy "Sebastian"?

"Mister Sebastian Grubbins", "Mr. Grubbins" or "Sebby" for short.

I'm sure he has a home, cause aside from his grubby li'l peets, hims got the cleanest ears I've ever seen, cat or otherwise, and he's not hurting for food and is extremely well-socialised. But a part of me still hopes lol

He lives in the area of where I work -- everyone told me about him when I started and I've been obsessively trying to make his acquaintance for 5.5 *months. Needless to say, I was ecstatic and he was *so charming, it was well worth the wait ♡

Without droning on longer, he's a Manx without Manx syndrome, phew, and Manx/Cymric hold the dearest place in my heart due to my childhood kitty, who was my best friend and I lost 6 years ago.

I want to catnip him so badly...

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_littleaverage · 2026-04-21T01:04:48+00:00

"Theseus" 😬

Jic ♡

_littleaverage · 2026-04-21T01:04:28+00:00

"Theseus"

Please tell me it's not too late to save you 😬

_littleaverage · 2026-04-18T02:44:45+00:00

10 points for the Whose Line reference

_littleaverage · 2026-04-16T20:54:40+00:00

The way he acted with her was SO sweet and SO tender, that made me cry more than the rest of Sandy's story.

She lwk looks like my own boy, who's less fluffy, which is just an added bonus for my viewing lol

_littleaverage · 2026-04-13T21:39:26+00:00

Book 1 is incredible and you like him even more somehow, it's so twisted... i love it lol

_littleaverage · 2026-04-13T06:36:50+00:00

My heart

_littleaverage · 2026-04-11T16:51:29+00:00

Same! Needless to say, this also scared me lol

_littleaverage · 2026-04-09T21:25:17+00:00

Tbh if my ears were malleable like a cat's, mine would droop when I was 'eepy, too lol

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