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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I first got Hope, I bought her many toys. Bizzy balls and little feathery fish on elastic strings … catnip mice and other kitty-cat pleasures. She’s okay with those. She’ll bat a bizzy ball around in her spare time. She’ll attack a feathery fish if she’s bored.<\/p>\n
But you just don’t know what a cat will “choose” as its main toy. It will always be something unexpected.<\/p>\n
The toy Hope “chose” is a small stuffed bunch of two bananas. I believe there was catnip in it once upon a time. It has no bells and whistles. It doens’t move on its own. It just sits there like a lump.<\/p>\n
But Hope LOVES it. In almost every picture I take of her, the two stuffed bananas are also somewhere in the frame. She can’t really let it out of her sight. She’ll take a nap on the floor, clutching the two bananas in her paws, or lying directly ON the two bananas, because that way she won’t have to worry about her toy’s location.<\/p>\n
When I went to go pick up Hope after her month-long stay at Kerry’s, we were gathering together Hope’s belongings … and I said, suddenly frightened, “Oh wait. Where’s the banana?”<\/p>\n
Kerry immediately understood. She had obviously experienced Hope’s adoration of the two bananas. “The banana! Where is it?”<\/p>\n
Then began a search, and Kerry found the banana under her couch.<\/p>\n
Phew. I would have had to go out and buy another one just like it, to keep her placated.<\/p>\n
Hope is surrounded by things that should be interesting. Scratching posts, bizzy balls, hair ties, feathery fish, and my bamboo plant which she seems to find delicious.<\/p>\n
But the bananas have won her heart. She’s a one-toy kitty.<\/p>\n
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When I first got Hope, I bought her many toys. Bizzy balls and little feathery fish on elastic strings … catnip mice and other kitty-cat pleasures. She’s okay with those. She’ll bat a bizzy ball around in her spare time. … Continue reading