My cat is part retriever...

[Veronica]

But, Veronica, I was waiting for the tie-in between your sock thread and your cat threads. I guess your cat isn't as strange as mine. My boy will carry socks around the house (wool are best), yowling. If I leave the drawer open, when I come home from work there is at least one sock waiting for me at the door.

I try to keep them out of the drawers. Our first two were into socks. I'm sort of obsessive about wanting drawers and cabinets shut. So Cassie and Tucker really haven't had an opportunity to play with socks. They do love Thom's motorcycle pants. He leaves them folded on the floor by his boots during the week and they crawl inside. He ended up needing to take one of those hair removal tape roll things to work because he was always covered in cat fur.

I have pictures of my Bozo cat playing with rolled socks. My Tilda kitty use to get the dirty socks out of the hamper and drag them around. I miss those two. Tucker sleeps on my feet the way Bozo did, but otherwise they are all very different.

V.

[colby]

One of ours will play with anything, and hair ties are RIGHT up her alley. She's not much of a fetcher, but she loves the chase.

The same one is fond of rubber bands, plastic bands, milk rings, and that kind of thing. Today I caught her carrying around an Ironman poster I brought home, still rolled up with a rubber band around the middle, BY the rubber band. Her obsession is a little strong.

Another one of ours is the king of knocking things off the table. If anything is right at the edge of the table, he curls his little toes and pushes it off. You can put it back up, he'll knock it off, watch it fall, and look at you -- "hey, can you get that for me?" Lather, rinse, repeat. He's terrible. He's knocked off bottle caps, empty soda cans, tennis balls, marbles, toys... anything. I wonder what's going through his head as he knocks them off, watches them fall, and waits for YOU to fetch!

[SlowButSteady]

Cats that retrieve are a hoot. I call them "fetch kitties."

If you have a cat with a strong retrieving drive, they'll go past when a labrador retriever will stop and take a nap.

Be very, very careful with the hair elastics and rubber bands. They are very common causes of foreign body obstructions in the GI tract of cats. One of my patients died after the surgical specialist removed bits of them in eleven places in her small intestine.

It's strange what cats like. My SIL's fetchy kitty prefers pieces of paper rolled up into balls. One of my cats liked Brill-O pads.

[mimitabby]

I've had more than one cat that retrieved. I've even had "party cats" When we had guests, Grizz used to love to play fetch. She was quite a show off.

[snapdragen]

Sock lovin' cats...

[SouthernBelle]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

Yech.

[CATWOMAN]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

Yech.

Gross!! My Sophie loves dental floss. She will fish it out of the trash and eat it if we don't hide it. And yes, it comes out the other end. Now that is gross!!

[colby]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

I forgot about q-tips! I have one of those, too. It's cute and disturbing at the same time... anytime we use q-tips he's RIGHT THERE watching you. He chews on them, carries them around, and tosses them around with his little toes curled. It's really cute, I have to admit, but the taking them out of the garbage not so much.