Posted by Loulou on Feb 18, 2016 | 8 comments

Recently, I received mail from Franny, my friend in Missouri along with a photo I cannot find that shows her draped in string and saying, “So how does this string thing work?” So I’m putting in some instruction pics today on how we play the String Game and have a helluva time for 10 minutes at least with any anthro and kitty who will participate.  This game is especially fruitful for bored kitties who can’t go outside because it’s raining or simply for bored staff who need a bit of exercise themselves.

1. Use a yard-long piece of flexible string and tie a few knots in the end to simulate a mouse? bird? prey of any kind?
2. Have a movable bedspread, pillow case or anything that you can hide the string under while playing.
3. Get your kitty’s attention.
4. Throw string toward your kitty and hide most of it under the bedspread, sheet, comforter, pillowcase, etc.
5. Draw the knotted string slowly back under the cover, hoping your kitty will see it and become interested and chase it, paw it, pounce on it.
6. Repeat this ad nauseam for at least 10 minutes in various corners of the bed until your kitty jumps crazily off the bed and goes to hide under a curtain/table/dresser/chair/ in order to continue to play Hide And Seek with you.
7. Pretend you are not noticing this change and keep showing the string to the ‘hidden’ kitty, drawing it up onto the bed from say, the floor, where you have dangled it to catch you kitty’s attention.
8. When you think your kitty is finished with this game and you have turned your back, your kitty will rush at the string and leap upon the bed, scaring the bejesus out of you but wanting to continue playing.
9. When your kitty high-tails it out of the room and heads for 1. dinner 2. her cat box (stimulating exercise is good for regularity) 3. her nap place, then you will know The String Game is finished.

That’s about it.

In between finishing this blog and having dinner,  I watched the debate between Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and tomorrow’s blog is going to try to bring every reader’s attention to the prospects of electing a strong leader as president of our beloved USA.

Frankly, there is much to ponder.  And there is nothing more important in our lives right now than a candidate who wants to include YOU in the political process so that the governing of your country is not influenced by Wall Street, pharmaceutical  companies, banks and insurance companies and the 1% of our nation who controls this nation’s wealth while the rest struggle for a minimal existence.  WATCH BOTH DEBATES before you vote.

Get both parties views on immigration, racism, free education for all, medical coverage for everyone, and rights for women, men, children and anyone in between.  But first, LISTEN.

I am.