What happens to cat toys (and our stuff that gets used as cat toys) when they disappear?

[LoveMyPeppermill]

My buddy who has five cats says he got this explanation from some cute twink who worked in a pet store.

When cats lose interest in cat toys, the toys are teleported back to the cats' home planet, Catopia, where they're used as currency.

Discuss.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Look under the dryer, behind the socks.

 

[unloadonme]

Do they not get sent to poor cats in Africa? That's what my mother always used to say would happen to food I declined to eat, albeit to poor children rather than cats.

 

[Vannie]

My cat does ebay.

 

[rareboy]

My buddy who has five cats says he got this explanation from some cute twink who worked in a pet store.

When cats lose interest in cat toys, the toys are teleported back to the cats' home planet, Catopia, where they're used as currency.

Discuss.

At the moment we are missing 5 out of 6 mice at $8 per mouse that we play 'Throw the Mouse' with.

Yesterday's hunt turned up one squeaky mouse that we're not as interested in right now. There are dozens of toys everywhere that have all been liberated from the toy bed.

Mizzy...where da mice?

 

[Alistair]

Zeus’ favorite ball that he plays fetch with is missing. I’ve searched the entire house.

Maybe it’s in the same place my socks go.

 

[Peloso]

Catopia

I've been there. It's a very small planet so there's virtually no gravity, which can be fun or scary depending on what the cats are up to. Plus it's impossible to eat spaghetti, which you'd be lucky to find since the only thing to eat is what the cats leave out for you. I spent a week eating nothing but candy corn and lemon wedges, and had to fight raccoons for every single piece. It just wasn't worth it.

 

[Kahaih]

Don't tell me I'm the only one who has ever had to disembowel a vacuum cleaner to retrieve a pingpong ball.

 

[LeicsDom]

My cat has never liked playing with toys
When I first got him (12 years old) he would bring mice into the house, play with them til they died of fright and then just leave them for me to clear up

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

LeicsDom, which one of you was 12 years old when you got him?

 

[rareboy]

Update: Sometimes the mice end up in the rubber boots.

 

[cabinfever]

The neighbor's cat collects "stuff"

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Zeus’ favorite ball that he plays fetch with is missing. I’ve searched the entire house.

Obviously Zeus has teleported it back to the planet Catopia.

I wonder what denomination of currency it counts as there ...

 

[rareboy]

I've been there. It's a very small planet so there's virtually no gravity, which can be fun or scary depending on what the cats are up to. Plus it's impossible to eat spaghetti, which you'd be lucky to find since the only thing to eat is what the cats leave out for you. I spent a week eating nothing but candy corn and lemon wedges, and had to fight raccoons for every single piece. It just wasn't worth it.

BTW. This is the best fucking thing I have read on the internet this year.

 

[pigface]

Expensive cat toys get ignored here. Much more fun to play with clothes pegs, seed pods brought in from the garden, empty boxes and post-it paper.

 

[Alistair]

^ if I ball up a piece of paper and throw it out to mine they’ll play with it until it gets trapped under the furniture.

Hair ties and cotton swabs are their favorite but I fear that they’ll choke on them so it gets taken away as soon as I see it. Now they run from me with it so I can’t take it away

 

[pigface]

In the days of faxes, the best toy in the world was the narrow strip of curled paper the fax machine ejected after power-up!

I have read that thermal paper contains unhealthy chemicals, so I don't let them have it anymore even though there is a roll of it still in the cupboard.

 

[rareboy]

^ had to take away a strip of plasticized paper that Mizzy was determined to conquer...and eat, I am sure. Don't need to be taking her to the vet for that. This morning she ate 3 small things that I couldn't identify. Makes me crazy.

 

[unloadonme]

My mum's cats always go mad for toys containing catnip. Felt catnip mice are a particular favourite.

 

[Thad1527]

^ With my late boy cat Homer, there was a simple reason for the disappearance of catnip mice. He ate them.