Full-timing with Cats: Fetch Kitty

As promised another entry in our continuing saga of living full-time in an RV with three cats.

We wish the photo was better but here goes. Believe it or not we have a cat that fetches. Bob's sister taught Sandra, aka 'cutest cat ever' to fetch when we lived in our old sticks and bricks. Being a cat Sandra does not fetch often and only when she wants to but when she does it is quite a treat. Yesterday was one of those days. Jo threw the safety ring from a milk jug and Sandra would run and grab it, put it in her mouth and bring it back to Jo to throw again. It happened so fast it was hard to get a good picture.This happened quite a number of times with a few variations. Some times Sandra would play with it before bringing it back which caused problems a couple of times since she would bat it underneath the couch or refrigerator.

This brings up a couple of pet peeves about cat toys. First, why do they always bat them under the couch or recliner or refrigerator or .... We have probably 2 dozen toys of which usually only one or two, if that, are visible, the rest are under something. Digging out the safety ring to continue playing fetch yesterday allowed Jo to find a lot of the toys.

Our second big gripe about toys is why is it always the cheap ones they like the best. We have balls with bells in them, things that look like jumping jacks squashed, catnip balls and others that we have purchased. But the ones they like the best are the safety rings from milk jugs, or the caps from milk jugs. We have quit buying toys because we always will have milk around for the rings and caps.

We should be receiving a replacement camera soon for the one Bob dropped on our trip to Tortilla Flat and this camera is supposed to have better image stability than our current one so maybe on the next 'Fetch Kitty' event we might have better pictures.

Till next time,

Bob and Jo