Good morning/evening all!
Mo seldom plays on his own. If he does, it's between 11:30pm and 6am doing the loudest, most obnoxious thing he can find to do - running full force batting around a piece of licorice, bashing it into walls, claws scrambling and sliding across the floors. Either that or finding some paper or a piece of tape he can touch over and over again because the super loud crinkly noises are fun, but only in the middle of the night. Even with a cardboard tube or a kicker, he won't play with it until we initiate with him. He relies a lot on people, but is mostly a lap cat and if he thinks he's alone, he'll just yowl and yowl.
Kismet plays REALLY well on her own, I think because the other cats she's lived with have always been rougher than she prefers so she just plays alone (I know that feeling, kitten). When I come into the bird room or am getting ready to leave for school work, she'll follow me towards the door, but when she realizes I'm leaving/shutting the door, she goes over to one of the track ball toys and just gets right into chasing and batting it around. It makes me feel way less guilty about leaving.
An easy one today - do your cats play a lot by themselves? How do they like to entertain themselves when you're busy or not around?
Mo seldom plays on his own. If he does, it's between 11:30pm and 6am doing the loudest, most obnoxious thing he can find to do - running full force batting around a piece of licorice, bashing it into walls, claws scrambling and sliding across the floors. Either that or finding some paper or a piece of tape he can touch over and over again because the super loud crinkly noises are fun, but only in the middle of the night. Even with a cardboard tube or a kicker, he won't play with it until we initiate with him. He relies a lot on people, but is mostly a lap cat and if he thinks he's alone, he'll just yowl and yowl.
Kismet plays REALLY well on her own, I think because the other cats she's lived with have always been rougher than she prefers so she just plays alone (I know that feeling, kitten). When I come into the bird room or am getting ready to leave for school work, she'll follow me towards the door, but when she realizes I'm leaving/shutting the door, she goes over to one of the track ball toys and just gets right into chasing and batting it around. It makes me feel way less guilty about leaving.