Since many of you seemed so interested in the Magic Goldfish Wand Toy (MGWT), allow me to present (with Jeanne’s expert assistance as MGWT operator) Mayhem in action. Blurry action, even using my camera’s sport mode – be warned! (Note that the dirt in the background was from a little plant tipping incident and was cleaned up as soon as my dad arrived with the wee vacuum cleaner.)
*twitch twitch twitch* -Mayhem
*lunge* -Mayhem
“Hmph. It keeps getting away from me!” -Mayhem
“Drat!” -Mayhem
“I’m sure I can get it this time!” -Mayhem
“Whew!” *pant pant pant* -Mayhem
“Noooooo! Please don’t put it back in the closet! Please!” -Mayhem
Oh my that looks like fun. May needs a movie of her moves! 😉
Hee hee… Imagine 3 cats lunging at something like that! (OK, 2. Atticus is content to just watch.)
Yep, I second the movie. Go May! Did you work out all the twitches Super Cat?
She looks like a little dervish!
She’s an excellent goldfish hunter. : )
Where’s Chaos while all this is happening? Is he too smart to play with the MGWT? Does he know that it’s just a trick to get him exercising?
Chris- I take it that Chaos is not as enamored of the fish?
(We have real fish, and Chops hasn’t noticed yet)
Very cool toy! Very endulging mommy too. Is that catnip in the background? Oh, to be reincarnated as one of Chris’ kitties… talk about the good life.
Heh – heh kitty torture!
I left you a Halloween treat – on my blog!
Hmmm, if someone put chocolate or a $20 on a string, I’d probably chase it around, lol.
Not as cute as May, tho, fer sure. 😉
may is so flipping cute!!!
I bet if you’d let her, she drag the whole thing around the house in her mouth.
That looks like a great toy! I can just see May with it – “Mine! Mine!”
Our cats do the same thing – we even had to put it away in a different closet, when they figured out how to open the door!
Heeheeheeheehee!
Ahh! she looks like she is having fun 🙂
Put the video in and let them watch that for a while! Kids can watch a little TV now and then – despite what all the parenting books tell you!
Hehehe… May looks like she’s having a blast!
Blur!
How Cute!! Does she stare at the closet in hopes that her sheer will power will bring it out again? Bartholamew used to do that…
We love doing much the same thing with our feline friends using a laser pointer. Quite a workout it is. Glad Mayhem got to play.
Big “I’m gonna get you sucka” cat eyes are the best.
love it!
Whew! I’m glad Mayhem has made your house safe from the predatory MGWT! I bet she slept well after that “hunt.”
I love you and your cats. You lift me up every day. (Except weekends. For some reason, you take weekends off.)
Oh that looks like a lot of fun for a kitty.
Who wouldn’t want to chase a gold fish.
Great action shots! All our kids have their own favorite toys… Loki goes mad for the plastic rings off milk jugs – that’s about the only thing he’ll play with reliably. Everytime I decide to move the couch (or the stove or fridge) to clean under it I find a huge collection of them 🙂 If he hasn’t lost his toy by bedtime we have to take it away and hide it otherwise he’ll wake us up in the middle of the night ‘chirping’ while he walks around with it in his mouth… it’s almost like a crying sound so it wakes us up immediately!
Next up: a YouTube video. We knew Mayhem when!
Eeeee!
(Sorry… I don’t squee very often, but this was too cute. I couldn’t help it. Hope I didn’t scare the cats.)
We used to have one of those toys for my cat, and she loved it! Now we have to live vicariously through you – thanks for the cute photos!
I have a similar toy — I’m always afraid Harley will have a heart attack while playing with it!
*snicker*
You caught it! You go, girl!
I have a feather wand that sits on top of Mom’s dresser. I stretch full length and then cry and cry and sometimes, she gets it down.
But your goldfish looks like a lot more fun…
>^..^<
I assume that Chaos is too mature for something so fun.
I’m inspired to acquire one of my own! Yey for May having so much fun! Good job Mom!!! 🙂
We used to have a little thing we called the kitty torture toy when I was little (much like your MGWT). We had made it from an old wire hanger, a piece of string, and a rubber alligator toy. Even the most settled of cats would begin to pounce and fly around the room when we started to wave it around. Ahhh . . . . the memories!
THAT is how those toys are supposed to work; mine get tired of it very quick. However, I have a lot (hoo boy, I mean a LOT) of the rubber rings Target puts on pill bottles (I can’t bring myself to throw them out, they look so *potential*) and Evangeline one of those around now and then, chasing it around the kitchen floor and then trotting around with it in her mouth. Lilliane is waaaay to cool to play with anything like that.
Oh, what fun! I think we need one of those.
Fun! Although the latest addition to my family likes the stick more than the string/bait part of it. weird kitty….
Mayhem and that mgwt really made me snort. Jeanne’s got some nice toenail polish there…
Hahaha! That wouldn’t last in our house. We used to have a green fuzzy one, but Tyger kept biting through the elastic string. I think we went through four or five! He’s just so fast with those teeth.
She looks absolutely fascinated.
Catch it May!
Pogo used to sit out on the porch and grumble at giant dragonflies that would never, ever let her catch them 😉
She is so cute 🙂 I am really chuffed because I got to play with her!
I feel sorry for the goldfish…