flewellyn | Laser pointer fun!

So, I got a laser pointer.

Actually, it's more of a laser...dolphin...thing. I ordered it from an eBay store called Feline Friendz, which, although guilty of tragic abuse of the letter Z, sells cat stuff to raise money to help feral strays in Nebraska, so is nonetheless good.

So, yes, got the laser pointer thingy. It is meant, of course, to be a cat toy.

How are the results? So far, mixed.

Yitzak, of course, is not interested. He caught the laser dot once, you see; it was about eight years ago, and I was taunting him with the red dot, when he slammed his paw down on top of it. I left it there, curious to see what he'd do. He sniffed at it, removed his paw, sniffed again, and then looked at me with irritation, as if to say "That's not real! What's the big idea?" Ever since, he has shown no interest in laser pointers. (He will, however, chase feathery things. Those he can catch and kill.)

Bella, surprisingly, was also uninterested. She started stalking the red dot, but then sniffed when it went by, and must have come to the same conclusion as Yitzak. So now she ignores it.

Miette, though, goes absolutely apeshit. She LOVES the "chase the red dot" game. She will tear across the room after it, running as fast as she has probably ever moved in her life, her belly jowls wobbling absurdly underneath her as she strenuously huffs and puffs after the light. She leaps up against the walls trying to catch the dot, jumping and clawing with wild abandon. I can even induce her to run in circles with it, although she rapidly becomes dizzy and has to lay down (or rather, fall down). And, that first time that I let the laser turn off while she was watching it, she sat there staring, looking forlorn, for five minutes, wondering where her prey had run off to, and would it please come back?

She is not completely stupid, however. Somewhere in the dim recesses of her teeny, tiny brain, amidst the cobwebs, moldy tissues, and back issues of Butt-Licking Quarterly, she has somehow realized that the red dot is summoned when I pick up the purple dolphin thingy. Every time I do, she hops up excitedly and gets ready to play! When not playing, she will lay on my desk snuggling the darn thing in her paws.

Heaven help me if the battery runs out.