I went to our neighborhood Petsmart and bought two more of Phoebe's favorite catnip Eeeks mice after the other two mysteriously disappeared. We've looked under every piece of furniture in the house and in the closet where they've been found twice before and nada. Then this evening one of the missing ones turns up in a place I've looked at least half a dozen times. So now she has a grey one, a brown one, and two pink ones (one is MIA and the other is in the drawer as an emergency mouse). It's such a cute mouse, though, really ;-)

Also found yet another interactive cat toy that she just went bonkers for, a mouse on a wand with a little computer chip in it that makes it squeak when it moves. The noise drove Sparky nuts, but the kitty couldn't get enough of it. I got her some more catnip also, I'm guessing the packet that came with her scratching post is probably a little stale. From her reaction the the new batch, I was right. Do you think whe's just a little bit spoiled maybe...

So far the best homemade toys have been - a drinking straw, sheets of packing paper that are good for hide and seek, anything fished out of the trash (wadded up napkins are very popular), a fresh green bean (I think she thought it was a lizard), and the number one - ice cubes. Yes, she's one of those odd cats that begs for ice cubes whenever Sparky opens the freezer and then she chases it around till it melts or ends up beneath the stove.