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Old 08-09-2016, 04:59 PM
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Our current cats really love PAPER... I get unprinted paper sometimes in Ebay boxes. The cats LOVE boxes too.

So we have some packing paper, in parts of the first floor rooms, which they play on and under. Maya especially loves the paper.
I figure it is something to do with being feral? So Weezie has learned it too. They found some green tissue paper in a box recently and brought it upstairs to the living room and sit/lie on it now.

Here is Maya with a recent paper nest:
and secondly, Little Maya on Vacation when we adopted her
in Aug of 2012. I used to say loudly.... "Where's Maya" and she'd appear from under our old Cushman antique furniture upNorth,
like a phantom. That spot was our play place...where I did feathers on a stick and string, and other toys. She liked to have small boxes around, to sit in. We called them safety boxes. She had decided I guess that we don't step there, so she was safe.
The safety box in the kitchen was the most used.

Our other cats were not so "crazy" for paper and boxes...

This is a drawing I did in pastel recently about the paper and boxes issue:

I mention this, because after 40+yrs of cats, we found the new
paper and boxes, the best playthings of all. Maya does not go outside because we lost a cat before her -- the first time ever, so we don't let her past the screened porch. Weezie does go out and she trained herself to come in around 4-5pm, to avoid predators (Coyotes or whatever got poor Houdini). She stays around our house as we have lots of rodents for her to stalk.
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