Originally Posted by Aarcyn

Luna has a favorite new toy.

It was originally a favorite of Mango's, a hairy ball. A cotton ball with some sort of tinsel that he liked to toss in the air and bat. Eventually all the tinsel hair fell out leaving s small cotton fluff ball about the size of a grape.

Every evening as DH turns down the bed for sleep, Luna walks along the bed 's perimeter, meowing in excitement for the game of toss to begin. DH tosses the ball high in the air and Luna leaps to her hind legs to bring it down.

She also will bat it around and...lose it under our bed or the dresser.

So part of the bedtime ritual is her looking dumbly as DH searches for the missing play toy.

The ball has been missing for a couple days, no searching resulted in discovering where it had gone. DH being a compassionate man, got one of the existing hairy balls, cut the tinsel and presto! A new toy for Luna!

Cut to one of my early morning bathroom trips. As I am getting back into bed, there on DH's throw blanket is the new blue cotton ball and next it it, the ragged old pink ball is next to it!

Both are now on the ground after a dawn play moment. Yes, she wakes us up by her running at the end of the bed, by her bringing it back upon the bed when it flies off.

For those who would not want to let the cat play during the sleeping hours, I personally don't mind. Happy cats = a happy me.