Thread: No hiding place for Da Bird!

Da Boyz (Blue & Dakota) also love anything with feathers - especially if they think they are not supposed to have it! We have to lock our string toys up because they always find them.

I know I'm repeating myself, but please be careful with these toys when you're not there to play with them. We almost lost Dakota from one of these when he was 8 months old, as he found the toy stashed in a high cabinet. He opened the cabinet, lodged the stick in the cabinet, got his hind leg tangled up in the string and he slipped (we all know who graceful the boys can be). I heard a horrendous yowl and found him dangling upside down from the cabinet. Luckily I had a towel handy, grabbed him and hubby cut the string. NEVER - in my wildest dreams would I have thought this could happen, and I've been "owned" by many cats in my life. All I could think of is what if this had happened when we weren't home. Now I'm very protective of our boyz and play with these toys. The toys are literally locked up after play time in a child-proof cabinet.

Too bad there isn't some type of quick "safety-release" for them, as these toys are "the bomb" (awesome)!

I promise to not preach any more (I don't want to be perceived as the nagging old cat lady)

BTW -- Love the pics (and stories) - these cats are just so wonderful (and amazing)! I know that ours are pure joy (most of the time).

Wellynton Boots says good on you Monty anything with feathers is fair game for plucking,we had our tickling sticks on top & right at the back of a cupboard in the utility room because of Wellys fetish & one day there was one hell of a clatter & yes he had made it up there knocking everything off in the process,by the time we had picked our way into the room he had fled growling with it bang clatter as he & stick disappeared through flap into cat pen & by the time we got out there to the rescue it did look a bit sick,ours are now on a top shelf inside a cupboard for safe keeping. You can imagine our dread when we were showing if the judge had a feathery stick to get their attention,anything else fine he would just put a paw out & tap so glitter strips,furry tails meant relaxation but oh dear a feather was don't worry let me have it I'll kill it for you.....
mc-becca you are not nagging I have never left mine with any elastic toys hanging in fact unless I am standing there with them I wouldn't leave them full stop even if I was in the house,daughter had trouble once with one,she thought as she was about it would be safe but left the room for a couple of minutes & came back to find the elastic wrapped round the cats neck & getting tighter,panic,the only time I thought I was safe with elastic was in the early days I got them a cat tree with a couple of toys attatched the longer one I took off but left what I thought was the one with too short a bit of elastic to do any harm,wrong,luckily I was there when it wrapped round Merl & at that point he was about 7kg & even that weight pulling against it couldn't get it to give,panic again,another stark warning if we are giving them out applies to collars,cat or dog if they wear them indoors & there is more than one cat/dog,make sure with cats they are quick release & dog take them off,it was a freak accident I know,devastating for the people but so easily could happen,two puppies both had collars left on in the morning the owners came down to find one pup dead,they had obviously been playing 2nd pup had got his foot through first pups collar & twisting round to try & get free had throttled its mate,its paw was still stuck through when owners got up,these were not a little breed either,now who would have thought of that one.....

Yes we had the same experience with one of our moggies (Tordi RIP) when she was a kitten. Hanging ball on a scratching post - rope wrapped around her back leg. She was trying to run away and the rope was getting tighter and tighter. Trying to rescue her was a nightmare (she was a bit of a madam - you could only touch her on her terms) - getting the scissors to the rope was very difficult. Thanks goodness we were in when it happened though. So none of our scratching posts have had anything hanging from them since. You'd think the manufacturers would have figured all this out by now :(