This week I learned that while you may purchase automated snakes:
… your cat will still prefer the classic ball of yarn, especially if you make it wiggle like an automated snake.
However, the most important thing I learned was from a friend, who said cats should not play with yarn unattended. The yarn can get stuck on their tongue barbs, then they swallow the yarn. which proves fatal. (Though somehow the same thing wasn’t fatal to R. Crumb’s brother Maxim.)
4 responses to “TWIL: Cats and Yarn”
It *can* prove fatal, but from friends with cats, it more often proves gross as it comes out the other end… uh, accompanied… and then sheds some of its accompaniment as the cat wanders around.
But also, yes, cat turning down thing made/bought specifically for cat in favor of thing that was cheap/free and/or is not entirely safe for cat: 100% cat behavior.
KC – ugh. Like inches of shedding, or a foot of shedding?
How much of a second, clumped-upon tail the cat develops depends on the yarn and various internal factors. The ones I’ve seen have been 6+ inches. (also sometimes the cat freaks out about being “followed” and thus: utter chaos with intermittent deposits in unlikely places. Other times, no freakout, not sure why.)
KC – Eww eww. A second tail. The imagery!