My mother once had a kitten that would fetch ... but only crumpled up cellophane wrappers. She'd really fetch - my mother would toss the cellophane and the kitten would scamper after it and bring it back to her and wait for her to toss it again.

My sister had a cat that loved to play fetch with the rubber bands that she'd get wrapped around the day's newspaper. She'd shoot it across the room, Penguin would scramble over and pick it up, and then she'd bring it back to Kris and drop it at her feet.

She had to be careful, though, and make sure that Penguin didn't swallow it.

Timelies all!

The cats play with everything. Catnip toys, the remains of a Cat Dancer(at this point it's just a piece of wire with one lone bit of paper), the humans, each other....

I just wish UPS/FedEX would deliver to the local shops that are UPS/FedEx brand. There's one of each within a couple blocks of me, but they won't do that. I mean, that is to say, if I can't get the package for some reason, they won't leave it there, they have to leave it at the main place, which is in bumfuck and only open useless hours.

Immanuel and Kripkat fetch with their toys. Yesterday morning I was lying on my stomach on the couch and Kripkat dropped a mouse on my back, thinking that would be a good time for me to throw it. I declined.

My cats play catch, not fetch. The best cat toy is the end of a quarter roll. You can put it on the end of your finger and flick it so that it flies around like a large round insect.

Oh yesh, I wake up in bed with cat toys all the time. I think Devi is the main culprit, but I wouldn't put it past Loki. He's the one who goes crackers trying to open the clear index card box I keep the fake mice in.

Devi's always brought me things to throw for her. Including dead mice.

I am continually amazed that creatures of such a radically different species as a cat would be so enamored of us that they want to play with us. And sleep on us, and talk to us, etc.

One of our former kitties had a favorite toy - it was a piece of sheepskin formed into a ball with the fuzzy side out and attached to a long piece of leather. She'd carry it around in her mouth (occasionally tripping over the long piece of leather) and sometimes trying to meow around it. She also loved these little mice we'd get a Christmas time - a composition body, about 1" tall, covered with real fur of some sort. She'd play with those, tossing them up and chasing them, licking them, biting them ... one would usually last about 20 minutes until she'd licked all the fur off.

One of the cutest monkeys I've ever seen.

I think my "local" UPS pickup is only open till five too. Fedex has decent post-work hours. I'm lucky that the lady who used to be the building manager here never goes anywhere and will happily sign for anything.

I keep noticing signs saying that Fedex Kinkos is now Fedex Office or somesuch, but they haven't actually changed the signs proper. I'll miss Kinko's from back in the day when I had no home computer or internet connection. Now I hate them, because it costs so much to just log on and print a resume, but those were the days.