Pop-up Cats

It's been a while since I posted about our cats Tigger and Leo, but then it's been a while since they did anything particularly new and amusing, at least when I had the camera ready. Last night they did. I've shown this toy before, the Cat Cube, made out of fabric on a plastic rod frame, with holes in three sides. Leo loves to sit in it and play in it, but I usually don't get it out until after our evening play time, which usually involves me teasing them with one of the many toys on a string we've accumulated. This time, the cube was already out when I started dangling a feather on a string for them. Leo was in the cube, so I started dangling it over the top opening…

…and Leo would leap straight up after the feather like a jack-in-the-box, very funny! This is the best shot I could take of that, he got much higher. Before long Tigger got involved…

…and as usual tried to outsmart me by standing on the cube instead.

It worked for him! Ellen and I had some good laughs at the "pop-up cats," until they got tired of the new game, which didn't take long.