Cat Toy

The Cat that made the guest appearance in my last post about Mr. Moose likes to come to my room every now and then. Now you can obviously see she's got some weight issues.. so I've been trying to get her to play a little.. I bought her a couple of cat toys with a rod on one end and a parrot/mouse on the other with bells and feathery tail and everything that she wasn't the least bit interested in. But she does like playing with an old abandoned shoe lace.. Guess its more life-like than the fake furry toys. The other day she was a heck lot interested in my ear phones with the crocheted cover as I got back home from a walk late in the night. So I thought I'd do something that's a combination of both the shoelace and the ear phones for her to play with:


I'm not sure about how she'll receive it.. Her visits have been a little infrequent since the giant spider that invaded my room scared her (here he is.. lying all dead and curled up.. thanks to my heroics of course!):


Oh that day was a disaster.. first there was this gigantic spider in my room in the night... plus my landlady wanted me to get rid of the wasps nest buzzing with 100+ wasps by spraying it in the night.. After the spider ordeal I told her I'd do it the next day and she was totally insensitive to my palpitating heart and said "What's gonna happen tomorrow".. damn Aussies! I said looking her in the eyeballs.. "I'll do it". No one calls me a chicken! even indirectly!

--------Update 2:00 pm the same day (17/02/2014)---------
Yayyy success! she liked it.. played with it a lot more than she did with the shoe lace.. The disc thingie at her end makes up for a cool thing for her to grab.. and the finger ring thing on my end keeps the string from leaving my hands.. She plays hard with it.. The yarn's synthetic something type so it may last a little longer.. but I can already tell that this yoy's days are short lived.. her nails have already got the bottom part of the toy to fray.. I love it though.. and she loves it too... there may be more of this one coming up ... in more colors.. yayyyy finally a thing I"ve made that;s been put to some good use. :)