{"id":5106,"date":"2015-10-13T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2015-10-13T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:08:30","slug":"cat-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2015\/10\/cat-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, we got a new cat. She’s six months old, and she was born at my sister-in-law’s house. We took her in mostly because we had mice this past summer, and Jennifer pointed out that this was our first summer in quite some time that we didn’t own a cat. So…I guess we gotta have a cat.<\/p>\n

Like most kittens, she likes to play. So I went to the pet store to buy a couple of those toys-on-a-stick. Jennifer said to make sure I got one without feathers, but it turns out they’ve all got feathers on them. And they’re expensive: the cheapest one at this particular store was over $11.<\/p>\n

So, instead, I purchased two cat toys that were not on strings.
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These guys were just over $4 each. After tax, I spend right around $9 for the two of them.<\/p>\n

As an aside, notice the small print:
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That’s right: “it is recommended that pets be supervised when playing with toys.” Yeah, that’s no gonna happen. Also, notice these were made in Portland, Oregon? I was just in<\/em> Portland! I should have picked them up there; they probably would’ve been cheaper.<\/p>\n

Then I walked over to the hardware store, and purchased two long dowels (for 88 cents):
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and a short segment of Tygon tubing (for 29 cents):
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…which I then took home and cut into two two-inch segments:
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Then I grabbed my roll of fishing line:
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And tied a length of the line to each of the Tygon segments:
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Then I grabbed the cat toys and noticed they each had tags on them.
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Since tags are evil, I removed them using that tool from Home Ec class:
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Then I attached the other ends of the fishing line to the toys. For the octopus-looking thing, I tied the fishing line in a knot around its body. For the mouse-looking thing, I threaded the line through its body.
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Then I slid the Tygon segments over the two dowels, respectively. The ends of the dowels had daubs of super glue to help keep the Tygon in place.
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Cat toys are done! Two for $11! And no feathers!
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Juvenile human plays with juvenile feline to much success:
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Last month, we got a new cat. She’s six months old, and she was born at my sister-in-law’s house. We took her in mostly because we had mice this past summer, and Jennifer pointed out that this was our first summer in quite some time that we didn’t own a cat. So…I guess we gotta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}