They're just the right size and she can toss it into the air, chase it, and carry it from room to room. If you toss one into the wastebasket, she just looks visibly disappointed until you give it to her, and then it's game on!

that, when she was a kitten, loved to play with crumpled up paper towels or piece of paper, more than her little toys. She passed away three weeks ago. First time we have not had a cat since 1987. It’s been very difficult.

My kid cats are the one thing I know will make me smile, every single hour that I'm awake.

I enjoy reading about your kitty kids and have been doing so since I believe 2020. I see how much joy they bring you!

I know how painful it is. Please accept my deepest condolences.

so much.

and send peace and comfort to her grieving loved ones.

I am so very sorry for the loss of your precious little girl.

One of our current 4 is very fond of pencils. Also Q-tips. My husband uses Q-tips in his hobby of building model airplanes, and this cat knows exactly where they are in the model workshop. He helps himself whenever the opportunity presents itself. We find the remains of mangled Q-tips throughout the house.

I think most cats like long , slender objects like pencils, oens, straws, or chop sticks, and I think I might know why. My theory - a young kitten's first play things are the tails of their litter mates and moms. Perhaps these long slender objects make a lifelong imprint on them.

What a mischievous little scamp! Tell the truth, you love him all the more for it. I had to laugh at your description of him wrapping his front paws around your ankle and going along for the slide ride down the hall - I can almost see it in my mind!

But at the end of the day, when it's all said and done, he is truly and foremost, a little lovebug! How absolutely precious that he takes such good care of you.

of him wrapping his paws around her ankle made me chuckle too.😊