I do have a wool obsession and I totally admit to it- but this time I’m not talking about me!
I have 2 cats at the moment and had another before the youngest came but he unfortunately is no longer with us. My eldest cat Tilly, is 5yrs old and during that time I have always been a knitter, this means I have stashed wool everywhere, and I mean everywhere. However, not once has she bothered to even take it under her notice. Our second cat George when he was alive only bothered when I was actually trying to knit as the slight movement of the ball of wool would be too tempting.
Now our youngest cat, Minnie is a total minx. Not only does she love a ball of wool but she can sniff them out at a hundred paces and can find them and take them for a walk wherever I try to hide them and believe me I really do have to hide them now.
Do not be fooled by the lazy appearance, she had just worn herself out while I had been out. I came back to find this…..
Not just the one ball of wool, normally the red one that she finds tucked away under a desk in my bedroom ( that one is like a little surrogate baby to her), Oh no she went to town and decided to get through a plastic bag full of wool that I have been using to make a crocheted blanket with…….
It can be such a pain in the arse at times especially when you are using the wool to make something for someone, but equally it is a bit cute when she sneaks downstairs with a ball of wool in her gob with the strand of wool leading all the way up two flights of stairs!! We have tried letting her have the red ball to play with but she is never satisfied with that and I can find chomped balls of wool downstairs, up on the landing, in the boys rooms, and up a second set of stairs in my room. I need something cat proof……………………… like a whole separate house for my wool stash to be safe ( not sure the hubby would agree to that one though). I suppose it could be worse, she could bring me presents of another kind, like dead things and that would NOT be good.
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Oh bless, that’s so cute! It reminds me of my old cat. She once came down the stairs howling and making that awful noise that cats make when they’ve caught something. I saw that she had something in her mouth, so I held my hand out. She dropped something grey into my hand and I squealed thinking it was a mouse. It was in fact a hair band. And so began her hair band obsession, Very similar to Minnie’s wool obsession by the sounds of it! We also used to have a gorgeous black cat called Minnie, your cat is beautiful.xx
i had a cat that was obsessed with tights !
Lol, this is going to be my posting next week too! I have religious knitting now thanks to Cartman – it’s a bit holy!!!