Non-edible toys

sarahp

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It turns out Stumpy likes eating toys. Any toy I've got for her she's tried to consume. A toy with leather type dangly things was bad because she kept trying to swallow down the dangly things which luckily were attached, so I just had to pull them back. That toy's been given away now. A toy with a feathery end got eaten yesterday - the feathers got eaten I mean. That's been thrown out. She also loves playing with the camera cord, and this morning had it for 30 seconds and manged to chomp through it. I got to it just before she swallowed it. The cord is being thrown out, when we get a replacement cord, the camera will be kept away.

Sigh... So now I've had to get non-edible cat toys. I got one of those plastic circular toys with the mousey inside that they bat around. She LOVES that, and it was hilarious watching her trying to figure out how it worked. It was worth the $10 that it cost just in the entertainment value we've gotten out of it today
. We also got her one of the cardboard Alpine Cosmic Catnip scratchers, which she also loves. It's easy for her to scratch on with the whole fractured pelvis thing, and she can lie on her side and bat away at the mousey inside the scratcher which she loves. We also have a large mouse toy and an aluminium foil she can bat around and we can throw to her.

So she has plenty of toys for the moment, but does anyone have any ideas what other toys she could have?

Even better, any idea why she has to eat things she plays with?? She doesn't seem to show any interest in eating anything else that we own, just the toys (and camera cord). Suggestions?
 

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If she swallows something long then DO NOT pull it out!! Especially if she did in fact swallow a lot. It can tangle around intestines and other body parts and do some real damage on the way out.
 
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Oh yeah I know not to pull it out! This was just in her mouth (maybe partway down her throat) and I pulled it out before she completely swallowed it.
 
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