"Sylvia M" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message
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Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty
Niobe.
Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition.

I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first
couple
of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up
substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't
particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious
to
feed her as a treat.

About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it
sounds.
Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been
shredded.
I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But
perhaps
someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar
cat.

I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big
ten-foot
stepladder.

http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg

Art


get her a small cardbox box with holes for her arms to poke in with some
nip inside. That should amuse her for a while.
If she likes the nip of course. Kitty FC was immune to it. It did
nothing for her.
Boyfie will occasionally rub his head on a sock I fill with nip for him
but he doesn't get out of his head on it. He is such a serious earnest
boy I would love him to get really stoned occasionally

maybe add some ping-pong balls in that box ;-)

He is not interested in any boxes or toys. He goes out looking at rats and
occasionally gets some small ones.
He's a sensible boy and lets the big ones pass. He pretends he hasn't seen
them ;-)
I do get some big rats here after the chicken food, they can be a challenge
even for the fierce terriers .
Boyfie has be kept in the house when the terriers come or he'd be a gonner,
they would kill him.
So I keep him in and they sweep through killing everything in their path.
No rat remains alive. Neither would he be, they are killing machines.
I wouldn't want one those terriers myself as a pet, but they aren't pets,
they are for killing and that's why I get the terrier men in for rats. You
will always get rats if you have chickens or pigs.