Our Pro Food-baller.

Another feline first...

If only it were as easy for us or actually as hard for us, we'd all be slim and trim. As you are well aware of, our Mausi is the best catered for cat and we can't be blamed for fickle tastes now, can we?

At first we wanted her to have a new toy which in itself is a most difficult task to accomplish. The more expensive it is the less she likes it. Give her a rubber ball or a walnut ( honestly, she jumps onto the windowsill and kicks a walnut loose from the bowl and onto the floor to play with ) and she's happy as a kitten. Bob and I should have never stepped foot inside those pet-shop-emporiums. Temptation on every isle. Temptation for humans that is as each toy is more cute than the next.

Any new toy gives the two of us more excitement than her majesty and I hate to admit it, but we kind of argue about who gives it to her first... Recently we purchased a round plastic ball with a spiral inside and an opening on the side. Yes, a food-ball. We fill it up with treats and these only emerge once the ball is vigorously kicked around.

It didn't take Mausi more than a minute to figure it out and when she feels like a snack between meals, she takes up a bit of food-ball. Bob has been working so much lately that he's never seen it happen and was amazed this weekend when Mausi gave it a kick until she heard the snack fall out. Gosh, I've never seen a more proud daddy.

Why can't we create such a device for us? Imagine having to kick a food-ball around in order to loosen a piece of chocolate, a crisp or a small sweet?

Getting ready to kick the food ball.

Almost like a ballerina...

There it is...the food ball.

Biggi