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Stealing Pens and Pencils?

post #1 of 14
11/24/10 at 6:43pm
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Midnight keeps stealing pens and pencils, I swear we're down to 1 of each in the whole house. We can't find them. We have no idea what he does with them. We've searched every where. Why the facination with pens and pencils? My father thinks Midnight is stealing them to write his autobiography. Seriously Lynxx played with pens but never hid them. Luna doesn't bother with them. How can he hide them? We've looked every where even under the beds!
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post #2 of 14
11/24/10 at 6:49pm
I don't know where they hide anything. Pens and pencils disappear never to be seen again.

I've tried to train myself to keep pens in the jug, but I always forget, and then it's gone.
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post #3 of 14
11/24/10 at 6:52pm
My boys do this often! Though, I think they knock them down, and then the dog runs off with them, but still...

It's worse when you are trying to write, and they decide your pen is the single most amazing thing ever... it's hard to write with a cat attached to your writing utensil
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post #4 of 14
11/24/10 at 6:56pm
Gus loves to steal pens and pencils, he also has a thing for paintbrushes
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post #5 of 14
11/24/10 at 8:33pm
Our pens and pencils end up under the fridge, stove, or couch.
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post #6 of 14
11/24/10 at 10:23pm
Pens & markers(esp. Sharpie!) are Ku Ku's favorite toys...dunno why.
Every time I start writing, she runs to me trying to play with it.
If I leave it on the desk, she'd either try to pick it up or pounce it(so it'd drop on the floor).
To this day, I still don't know why she does that or what attracts Ku Ku playing with things other than her "official toys"...
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post #7 of 14
11/24/10 at 10:36pm
Luckily Tails always pushed his crinkly ball toys into the same unreachable corner with a built-in cabinet, so when pens started to go missing I knew exactly where to look. Lo and behold, every lost pen was piled in that one corner
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post #8 of 14
11/24/10 at 11:11pm
Sometimes I think there's a "twilight zone" where objects our cats really like disappear to. Jamie leaves pens alone, but he loves pencils. One time my m-i-l stopped by when we weren't home and wanted to leave a note. We have a jug of pencils on the kitchen table, and she gave up after Jamie had taken the third pencil out of her hand and run off with it.
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post #9 of 14
11/25/10 at 1:52am
Oh yes, the Phantom Pen Thief...we have one living here too, and her name is Sarah. She lives up to her nick name the Little Imp.

We find many missing pens, cat toys, pencils, etc. under our stove and fridge when DH pulls them out to clean.

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post #10 of 14
11/25/10 at 6:13am
I have a BUNCH of pen/pencil stealers here. Who knows what I would find under the fridge or couch.
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post #11 of 14
11/25/10 at 8:25am
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Lynxx was able to lose some of his toys, but we found them. Luna and Midnight are incredible I'm still looking for a ball that lit up when touched, that Luna lost back in September. It can't fit under the fridge, it wasn't under the beds when we got the new matresses. Also had these big balls that light up when you bounce them. Midnight and Luna managed to lose all 3 of those.

Luna loses toys. Midnight can sense a pen a mile away and runs right for it! Yes it's very hard to write with a cat's paw attached to the pen.

I do agree there is a twilight zone in every house. Over the years we've had things go missing, and turn up in the most strangest of places, even years later. Or never to be seen again, even after we've moved and cleaned everything to begin fixing over the house.

Sarah is a cute little cat!
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post #12 of 14
11/25/10 at 11:06am
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Sarah says, "I've come to steal your pens. Let me distract you with my cuteness."
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post #13 of 14
11/25/10 at 4:48pm
I have no pen or pencil thieves, but I have been missing a little wooden pig for about 15 years now. DH swears my RB kitty Garfield ate it. Impossible! I tend to think DH had some kind of Dirt Devil accident involving that pig and still won't admit it.
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post #14 of 14
11/26/10 at 2:46am
My thoughts exactly, that Sarah knows she's cute and gets away with stuff, the little imp!
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