PING! PONG!

Taki loves to play with ping pong balls.  They are light, they rebound well, they fit into her mouth.  We have lots of other cat balls, but ping pong balls are her favorite.  We have some heavy solid balls that do not interest her.  We have some plastic strip balls, with bells in the center that are okay, but not her favorite. We have some fluffy fiber balls, and sponge balls, about the size of ping pong balls. Those are all okay, and she does sometimes play with them.  But ping pong balls are the best.

I buy them in an assortment of colors. She seems to like the white and red balls the best, but will play with balls of other colors.

Taki has me well trained. If she thinks a ping pong ball is under an item of furniture, she sits and stares, until I check it out, and, if she is right, I free the ping pong ball.

Sometimes, Taki likes to play ping pong hockey in the middle of the night. It wakes me up, but the rhythmic ping pong, ping pong of the ball is very soothing, and I enjoy listening to it, and usually, fall back to sleep fairly soon.

This morning, very early, she was playing ping pong on the bed. I have to admit, the rhythmic ping pong of the ball was very soothing, although I would have preferred to sleep through it. But she did not start ping pong until the first time the alarm went off. I have the alarm set early, so I can get up early if I want to, or snooze a little or a lot, if I want to.  I could not fault Taki for waiting to play ping pong until the alarm went off.  I just hope she does not play ping pong on the bed in the middle of the night!